Skyswirl Harrier

The French vanilla flyer is one of the oldest balancing acts in the game: how much power and toughness can a keyword-only evasive body carry before its price stops paying for it. Five mana for a 3/4 in the air sits at a deliberate, conservative point on that curve. The four toughness is the more telling number than the three power; it is the line that keeps the body alive across a damage-based combat exchange and out of range of the small-ball removal that has anchored the cheap end of every color since the earliest expansions. The three power in the air is the win condition, applied at a patient three-a-turn rather than a threatening clip. This is the white workhorse template that has barely moved since the game's first fliers were priced, a creature whose entire design statement is its stat line paired with a single evergreen keyword: no enters-the-battlefield value, no activated ability, nothing to build toward. The design question it answers is not "what does this do" but "what is a fair rate for evasion that survives," and the answer has stayed remarkably stable across decades of power creep, even as the bodies around it have grown text boxes. It asks only to attack, and it does that honestly.