Silverclaw Griffin

First strike on a flier is a cleaner combat package than it looks, because the two keywords compound rather than just stack: a flier already chooses its fights in the air, and first strike means it wins the ones it picks against anything its size or smaller without taking a scratch back. A 3/2 body is exactly where that math pays off, since two toughness is the range where trading is normally a real risk; first strike erases the downside on the attack and gives the defender pause on the block. The cost is where the design shows its restraint: five mana, two of it doubled white, for a creature whose stats would be unremarkable on the ground. You are paying the premium for evasion plus the safety net, not for raw size. That makes it the kind of midrange flier built to apply steady pressure and survive the air war rather than swing a game on its own, the white aerial beater that asks to be a reliable clock instead of a haymaker.