Steeple Roc

First strike on a flier turns the air into a kill zone the bird wins on its own terms: it deals all three points before a smaller blocker can answer, so it clears flying chumps without a scratch and beats down even a deathtouch attacker, killing it in the damage step before its touch ever connects. That is the upside the 3/1 body is renting. Five mana buys an evasive clock that hits like a far bigger creature in combat and refuses bad trades, but the single point of toughness leaves it exposed everywhere first strike does not reach: a burn spell, an incidental ping, a sweeper, any removal aimed at the card rather than its combat math. The keyword pair papers over fragility inside the red zone and offers nothing outside it, which is the lopsided deal a one-toughness flier always makes. Everything about it favors a clear board and a fast clock; nothing about it survives a grind. This is the white evasive beater built to land, swing, and pressure a life total before the opponent stabilizes, an aggressive curve-filler whose whole value lives in the attack step and nowhere else.