Melesse Spirit

The body was never the headline; the protection from black was. This is a creature built around a single defensive keyword, designed to walk past an entire era of black removal and the combat that leaned on it. Protection from black means it cannot be targeted by black spells, cannot be blocked or dealt damage by black creatures, and shrugs off any aura from that color, so it slips under the removal suite that defined the era it came from and trades up against the decks most likely to point cheap kill spells at it. The flying matters less for raw evasion than for what it stacks with: a body that flies and that black cannot touch is the kind of clock a black control deck has almost no clean answer to without splashing or reaching for colorless effects. The stats are deliberately soft because the protection is the premium; Wizards has always charged a tax for color-hate stapled onto a creature, and this rate is the bill. It belongs to the long tradition of white creatures that exist to punish a specific color rather than to fight fairly, the design lever that lets a set push one archetype's removal hard while still printing the antidote in the same block.