Tempest Drake

Vigilance on a flyer is a stat-line that does one specific thing: it lets a creature represent both halves of the board at once, attacking for evasive damage without surrendering the air on the swing back. That is the whole design here. A 2/2 for three in two colors is a modest body, and the keyword pairing is what the card is buying rather than the stats; it is a creature meant to chip in offense while still walling another flyer or holding back a token on defense. The early-era white-blue identity is doing the work too. White supplied the vigilance, blue supplied the flying, and the gold cost is the price of getting both keywords stapled onto a single small Drake instead of splitting them across two cards. It is a clean, unspectacular expression of what the two colors were built to share: tempo and board presence that does not cost you a turn of vulnerability. Designed as a midrange flyer for two-color decks that wanted to press an advantage in the air and keep it, the card asks little and promises little, but the keyword combination is more deliberate than the rate suggests.