Freewind Falcon

Protection from red is doing four jobs at once here, and the 1/1 body is just the chassis it rides on. The keyword means this flier cannot be blocked by red creatures, shrugs off red burn that would otherwise erase a one-toughness body, survives combat damage from red attackers, and cannot be targeted by red pump tricks turned against it. That bundle is the entire reason the card exists: a single-color answer stapled to an evasive body, the kind of design Wizards leaned on heavily in the era when narrow protection was a primary lever for color balance. The deckbuilding cost is steep. Protection from red is dead weight against everything that is not red, which is why a card like this lives and dies by what it is pointed at rather than by its rate. The keyword carries it or it sits idle. It is less a creature than a wager on the opposing deck, a flier that asks whether the removal and blockers across the table come stapled to a Mountain. When the answer is yes, a two-mana 1/1 that cannot be killed or blocked is suddenly a clock the red deck has no clean reply to. When the answer is no, the rider goes inert and you are left with a plain evasive flier: still a body in the air, still chip damage, but asked to carry a board on its own that it was never built to carry.