Tower Gargoyle

Three colors of mana buy a 4/4 flyer with the keyword and nothing else, and that trade is the entire point. The artifact-everything shard cared as much about being an artifact creature as a creature: the type fed metalcraft thresholds, exposed the body to artifact removal, and counted toward effects that tallied artifacts on the board. A 4/4 flyer at four would ordinarily ask for a single-color discipline; spreading the cost across white, blue, and black is the toll for a flyer this size in an allied-color deck built to reward exactly that three-color commitment. French-vanilla by design, the card leans on its plainness. The flavor and the mechanics rhyme cleanly: gargoyles are stone made animate, so the artifact-creature treatment sits more naturally on the type than it would on most beaters. What you get is an honest curve-topper sized to trade up in the air and outclass the early ground, the keyword the only text to read.