Ithilien Kingfisher
A 2/1 flyer for is a fragile body by design, and the death trigger is what turns that fragility into a feature. The card is built to trade: it blocks or attacks into something that kills it, and the death draw makes the exchange card-neutral instead of a loss. That reframes every combat math question. An opponent has to decide whether killing a 2/1 is worth handing you a card, and a defending player can chump-block with it and still refill. Removal aimed at it becomes a hedge rather than a clean answer, since even a burn spell or an edict cashes out into a new card for the controller. The evasion matters too: flying keeps it from getting stonewalled on the ground, so it either connects for two or forces a trade you were already happy to make. This is the durable, low-rarity shape of value that blue has leaned on for a long time, a creature whose replacement is baked in so that losing it never sets you back. Nothing about it demands a build-around; it slots into any deck that wants a cheap evasive body and would rather not spend a real card to trade for one.

