Silverbeak Griffin

The double-white cost is the entire conversation here. A 2/2 flier for two mana is a clean, fair rate, the kind of body any white aggressive deck would happily run; pricing it at rather than is a deliberate handcuff, locking the card to decks committed enough to mono-white or near-it that two colored pips by turn two is realistic. That single decision separates a splashable two-drop from a color-pie marker. The design belongs to a family of vanilla-or-near-vanilla white fliers that exist to calibrate the format's sense of what a small evasive beater is worth: a curve-filler, a clock, an early attacker that pressures the opponent in the air and forces them to hold up flying or reach blockers rather than trading on the ground. There is no second line of text, no enters trigger, no activated ability to dress it up. The absence is doing real work: strip away every rider and what remains is a reference point for pricing the flashier fliers that carry more. The Griffin type carries no mechanical payload of its own in most environments, so what you are buying is exactly the flying clock and nothing more, with the color commitment charged as the cost of entry.