Rustwing Falcon

The extra point of toughness is the whole design decision. White has printed one-mana 1/1 fliers by the dozen, and the 2/1 in this slot trades up but folds to any incidental damage; this body sits at 1/2, small enough that it was never a constructed staple but sturdy enough to survive the one-damage pings aggressive mirrors lean on to clear cheap evaders. That single point is what separates a token-adjacent throwaway from a creature that reliably chips in over an empty board. It is the platonic bottom-of-the-curve white evader: cheap enough to land on turn one, evading enough to matter against a stalled ground, replaceable enough to die for the cause without regret. The job is fodder with a wing, a body that slips over bigger commitments and earns its keep on its own without demanding a build around it.