Goliath Sphinx

Seven mana for an 8/7 flier with no second ability is a statement about a particular moment in blue's design history, when the color was still permitted to print raw beaters that did nothing but hit hard and hit through. Eight power closes a game in three swings, the toughness shrugs off most burn aimed at it, and flying means the ground stalemate that blue control decks love to manufacture does not touch it. But the cost tells the whole truth: at seven mana with no evasion beyond flying, no card advantage, no protection, and no defensive utility, this is a finisher that asks you to already be winning the resource war by the time it lands. Compare it to the era's other top-end blue fatties, the Titans and the dragons that come stapled to a triggered ability, and the absence of text is conspicuous. There is no value engine here, no insurance against a removal spell that leaves you down a turn and seven mana. It is the kind of body that reads enormous on paper and proves fragile in practice, a vanilla-plus creature in a color whose best finishers had long since started doing two jobs at once. The Sphinx type is the only nod toward blue's usual cerebral self-image; everything else about it is a brute.