Gold-Forged Sentinel

A 4/4 flier for is the kind of vanilla rate that exists to do one specific job: give any deck, regardless of color, access to an evasive body when its own color pie cannot supply one. The generic cost is the entire point. White and blue have always had cheaper, better fliers; black and green frequently have none worth running. This answers the question of how a ramp deck or a grounded aggressive build closes out the air without splashing, and the chimera body asks nothing of your mana base beyond having six lands of any color to spend. The rate is deliberately unexciting because the flexibility is the premium you pay for: a generically castable 4/4 flier is worth more across the full range of decks than a tightly costed one locked to a single color. It belongs to the long line of colorless evasive beaters whose value is measured not against the best flier in the format but against the best flier a given deck could otherwise cast. Most monocolored fliers price their evasion sharply because their color already supports the strategy; an artifact body refuses to make that assumption, trading efficiency for universality. Plain by design, and useful precisely because it never asks who you are.