Wild Griffin

The 2/2 flyer for that white has printed under a dozen names is the genre's reference point, and few versions wear the rate as plainly as this one. Portal sets stripped Magic down to a teachable core for new players: no instant-speed tricks on the card, no triggered abilities, no keyword soup, just a body that goes over the top of ground blockers. That austerity is the entire point of the design. A 2/2 with flying for sits at the exact rate where evasion costs you a point of toughness against a vanilla creature of the same cost, and the trade has been the white aggressive curve's quiet workhorse ever since: a clock that ignores most defense without demanding any decision from a player still learning what the stack is. There is nothing here to misplay, which was precisely the intent. A card like this teaches a new player how combat math and evasion interact before the game asks them to track anything more complicated, and the Griffin creature type gave Portal a recurring face for that lesson across its printings.