Sungrace Pegasus

The textbook starter-deck flier: a small evasive body stapled to lifelink so that every point of damage it pushes through is also a point back. The math is modest by design. A 1/2 in the air rarely races on its own, gaining a single life each time it connects, but it stabilizes the kind of board where slow, incremental life matters, and it gives a beginning player a clean lesson in how flying and lifelink compound: the attacker the opponent cannot profitably block becomes a reliable trickle of life turn after turn. That its toughness sits at 2 rather than 1 is the quiet part of the build. It survives the incidental one-damage pings and the small tokens that would otherwise erase it, keeping the lifelink clock ticking across more turns than a 1/1 ever could. This is white's training-wheels version of a recurring archetype idea (small flying lifelinkers as the backbone of a life-gain plan) rendered at the most accessible possible rate. Its two keywords both work passively: flying gates the blocks, lifelink resolves off combat damage without a trigger to hold on the stack or a choice to sequence. There is nothing to activate and nothing to misplay. It asks only that the pilot point it at open skies.