Sunblade Angel
Four keywords stacked on one body, and none of them chosen at random: flying and vigilance let it attack and block the same turn, first strike wins those blocks outright, and lifelink turns every point of combat into a swing on the life total. The 3/3 frame is the whole cost of that pile. Angels of this shape usually pay for their evasion and lifegain with a five-power body and a matching mana bill; this one keeps the keyword suite intact and shrinks the creature to the point where a single burn spell or larger blocker ends it. What you are buying at six mana is not a threat that dominates the board but a durable clock that gains ground on both axes at once, hard to attack into and hard to race, as long as nothing simply outsizes it. It reads like a starter-set Angel: the archetype's greatest hits printed on a stat line deliberately kept honest, a teaching version of what a lifelinking flyer is supposed to feel like without the payoff body that would make it a genuine bomb.


