Armored Pegasus

That extra point of toughness is the entire pedagogical point. A 1/2 flier survives the small burn and chip damage that would erase a 1/1, holds the ground against the modest attackers that fill an introductory deck, and trades up rather than dying for nothing. The defensive stat line was a deliberate choice for entry-level products built to teach combat to first-time players, and it changes behavior in a way a beginner can feel at the table. Everything else here is stripped to legibility: one keyword, no triggers, no decision more taxing than whether to swing or hold back. The pegasus body and the survivable toughness push the same lesson, that flying is the cheapest evasion in the game and that toughness is what keeps a creature alive on the board long enough to use that evasion. Nothing about it was meant to scale into a competitive shell, and it never did. It comes from a stretch of design when Wizards was widening the door for newcomers, building white commons whose only job was to make the rules click on the first read.