Resilient Roadrunner

The joke is that protection from Coyotes is a real, functional line of oracle text, and the card is built so the joke never becomes the whole card. Protection from a creature type carries four consequences (can't be blocked, targeted, enchanted or equipped, or dealt damage by the named type), so on paper this Bird beats a specific tribe cold in combat and shrugs off their removal. Coyotes are rare enough that the keyword reads as flavor almost everywhere, which pushes the gameplay weight onto the second line: for three mana it converts a hasty 2/2 into an evasive attacker that only haste creatures can block, and untapped haste blockers sitting on defense are scarce. That pairing is the design point. The body pressures the moment it lands, and the mana sink keeps it relevant into the midgame when a bare 2/2 would stall out. The protection is a tuned edge that flips one narrow matchup entirely while doing nothing anywhere else, a piece of hyper-specific keyword hatred usually reserved for sideboard cards, here stapled to a maindeckable aggressive creature as a flavorful bonus rather than a reason to run it.