Sun Sentinel

The two-mana 2/2 with vigilance is one of the most reprinted templates in the game, and this is a clean instance of it: no rider, no tribal hook beyond Human Soldier, just a body that can swing and still mind the fort. The design exists to fill a specific gap in white's curve, the defensively-minded two-drop that doesn't punish you for committing to the attack. Vigilance is the only thing separating it from a vanilla Savannah Lions descendant, and that single keyword is doing more strategic work than it looks: an aggressive deck gets a creature that pressures the opponent without leaving the red zone undefended on the crackback, and a midrange shell gets a blocker that earns its keep on offense. As a piece of common-rarity design it asks for nothing and promises nothing beyond reliability, which is precisely its job: every white aggro or soldiers deck needs filler that does not embarrass itself, and a vigilant 2/2 has been the safe answer to that need across many eras of the game. There is no story of a ban or a format it warped here; there is just a well-understood quantity, printed again because the math on a vigilant bear still works.