Selesnya Sentry

The regeneration ability costs , and that single green pip is the whole story. A 3/2 for is a serviceable trade-and-block body, the kind of defensive creature white has always had room for, but the safety net costs six total mana including green: a color the white shell that wants this body has no reason to produce. The gap is deliberate. This is a guild-set design that wears its white-green identity on the surface while quietly demanding the green half to ever unlock its resilience, so the floor (a fine blocker) and the ceiling (a creature you can rebuild after combat damage) live in different manabases entirely. In any deck casting it off white mana alone, the activated line is text you acknowledge and never click. And even where green is available, the regeneration price is steep enough that sinking six mana into keeping a 3/2 alive is a poor exchange against most removal: the shield protects the creature from one instance of destruction, but a body this small rarely justifies the outlay. As an artifact of color-pie engineering, it shows how a two-color set's vocabulary could produce a creature whose advertised durability belongs to a deck that rarely wants the body, and whose actual job (holding ground) it does perfectly well without ever paying the green tax.