Senate Courier

A mono-blue body with a white escape hatch, and the whole design lives in that gate. The 1/4 flying frame runs entirely on blue: a durable air-blocker that outlives most of the early skies and holds a wall without ever asking for a second color. White only enters through the activation, and it is priced there deliberately so the blue deck gets nothing it did not pay for. That split is the point. A deck that produces only blue lands a cheap, sticky defensive body; a deck that can generate white converts that wall into a creature that guards and attacks in the same turn. Vigilance on a body already built to survive combat is a modest reward taken alone, which is exactly why it sits behind the color cost: the gate is what lets one common serve two audiences without overpaying the cheaper one. It is unshowy by design, a backstop that starts as ground defense and becomes pressure once the white mana comes online. The clause reads as flavor too, a courier that keeps its eyes open while it carries the message.