Tower Drake

A 2/1 flier that buys its toughness one white mana at a time, this Drake is a tidy lesson in how two colors divide labor without stepping on each other. Blue supplies the evasion; white supplies the resilience. The body is fragile on purpose, and the activation patches exactly that fragility: each white source pumped into it adds a point of toughness for the turn, so a single activation lifts the Drake to 2/2 and a second drags it past the 2 damage from a Shock or an unfavorable block. The pump stacks for as long as the mana keeps coming, which means combat math against it is never settled until the white sources run dry. None of that touches its offense, and that restraint is the discipline at work. Blue does not get to make the creature bigger; white does not get to give it wings. Each color contributes only its own instinct (air superiority from one, defensive staying power from the other), and the card sits precisely on the seam where those instincts overlap. The activation asks for nothing more than access to a single white pip, repeated, which is why a deck dipping a toe into white can run it without distorting its mana. Nothing under the hood beyond that exchange: a flier that refuses to fall in combat for as long as you can afford to keep it alive.