Spectral Lynx

A 2/1 that attacks every turn and refuses to die: that is the shape this card reaches for, and it gets there only by drawing on black for what white cannot supply itself. White has no native access to repeatable resilience against destruction, so the regeneration runs on a black activation, and the body reaches its full stubbornness only in a deck already committed to both colors. That dual-color dependence is the design, not a tax to engineer around: it asks for white-black before it rewards you. The protection from green is the static half, a pointed answer to the trampling fatties and Overrun-style boards that defined the era's aggression, letting the Lynx block them clean and walk away untouched. Regeneration supplies the teeth. On its own a 2/1 folds to almost any exchange, but with black mana available, regeneration steps in as a replacement effect: the destruction is prevented outright, the creature taps, and it stays put rather than dying and returning. That distinction matters, because the Lynx never leaves to reset auras or counters; it simply declines to be removed by damage or destruction-based removal, turn after turn, for as long as you can pay. A small, attritional threat built for the long grind, designed to be the creature an opponent cannot profitably trade with.