Soltari Monk

Stack two narrow avoidance mechanics on one body and you get a creature that a black deck simply cannot fight on either axis it has access to. Shadow restricts combat to a private subset of creatures that share the keyword, so the 2/1 attacks through anything not playing the same game; protection from black handles the spells, turning aside the targeted removal that is mono-black's default answer to an evasive threat. The overlap is the point: the few creatures that could legally block a shadow attacker include black blockers, and protection from black strips even those out of the equation, while burn and bounce in white's worst matchup tend not to be there. The toughness is what keeps the design honest. Shadow creatures trade resilience for their evasion, sitting just inside the fragile window the keyword was built around, where one point of toughness means most of what does connect kills them. Read straight off the card it looks like a French vanilla two-drop with two keywords standing in for any printed ability, but the construction is deliberate: each mechanic covers a different interaction (combat, then spells), and together they leave a black opponent with almost no clean way to remove or trade with it. A precision instrument aimed at a single color, dressed up as a beater.