Setessan Griffin

A 3/2 flyer for five mana sits behind the curve on raw rate, but the rate isn't the point: this is a mono-white body that asks for green mana to do its real work, an evasive creature deliberately built to reward a deck committed to both halves of a green-white pairing rather than one that splashes for a payoff. The pump is not firebreathing; it fires once per turn for a fixed +2/+2, closer in feel to a once-a-turn growth spurt than an open-ended mana sink, so the ceiling on any given turn is a single 5/4 swing rather than a board that scales with whatever mana is left over. The fragile toughness is the real tax. Spending four mana to attack as a 5/4 leaves the body still dying to most cheap removal once the turn rolls over, so the activation buys an evasive damage spike and a place to dump excess mana but never durability; it is reach with no insurance. That makes this the workmanlike middle of the curve rather than a centerpiece: an evasive threat that absorbs late-game mana when there is nothing more pressing to do with it, designed to give a two-color deck a flyer that can punch above its printed size for a turn rather than a card meant to anchor a board.