Marble Gargoyle

A defensive flyer that repairs itself in combat: pump the toughness in response to a blocker or a burn spell, and the 2/2 body becomes an arbitrarily large wall in the air as long as white mana holds out. The design is a callback to the original Gargoyle template, statues that were durable in a way early creatures rarely were, translated here into a repeatable toughness sink rather than a one-time regeneration. What makes the sink honest is that it only ever adds toughness: this card cannot bluff its way into trades it would lose on the offense, and it never grows into a clock. Every activation buys survival, not pressure. A mana-sink flyer that only defends is a slow clock at best; it holds the skies and the life total, and usually asks another card to close. The artifact type line does real work here too, giving a white beater a foothold in artifact-count and metalcraft-style payloads it would otherwise sit outside of, and making it a target for artifact recursion as well as creature recursion. It is a small, deliberate piece: a cheap evasive blocker with a valve that turns surplus white mana into a wall no attacker in its weight class can profitably swing into.