Short of removal Thalia will do good work with her body alone on offence or defense however her real strength is in the disruption effect she packs
If so, token decks may be right for you
Prices are pretty firm
For reference, before the tax was added to the Companion mechanic, as long as you upheld the deckbuilding restriction that the Companion requested, you could add your Companion from the Companion zone (your sideboard) to your hand at no cost essentially allowing you to begin the game with a guaranteed extra card in hand
While you can a land almost immediately, only exiling one card, you can also burn through pockets of impactful spells, exiling handfuls of cards at a time
While some sort of Zombie and/or Knight tribal is a reasonable thing to do with Bladewing, Im more likely to put it into my Kresh Into the Red Zone deck, which thoroughly enjoys having creatures in the graveyard