­Jedit Ojanen for this.

This is a fun one. Most cat warriors have forestwalk. Most cats have hasty abilities such as first strike. Most warriors are red. They mostly have evasion and pump. White and blue and rare. Hmmm.

He did have a pure-green remake, who just summons new cat warriors. Which isn't interesting, but tells you a bit about his flavour when he grows up and gets famous.

So. Let's make him sneaky in some way, and have some kind of boost to his tribes, and for that casting cost he better be pretty darn big, too.

Hmm. Forestwalk and haste are way out of colour for both blue and white. I like the forest affiliation and the first-strike granting. I like the way the abilities help the tokens from Jedit Ojanen of Efrava, although haste doesn't actually help since they're put into play once he's attacked.

Forestwalk doesn't seem a sensible way for white-blue to be sneaky. Although the way his haste and first strike apply to himself is somewhat sneaky, in that I didn't initially realise it.

And you say he'd "better be pretty darn big", but 5/4 is smaller than the original Jedit Ojanen, and feels pretty small for a 7-mana gold legend with a handful of keywords.

In reverse order: As a younger version, I wanted him to be smaller. But I didn't want to reduce him much.

I agree with you about forestwalking being out of colour. I'm not giving him flying though :) Could just give him straight out "Unblockable" - but though very blue, it's also very good.

Ah well.

Yeah, I ended up with my weird ability because I went through a similar process of asking "what's appropriate to a non-flying cat warrior in UW" and eliminating all the obvious things :)