Alley Strangler

Menace on a 2/3 for three is a small but deliberate piece of math: blocking it costs the defender two creatures or none, which turns an otherwise forgettable body into a clock that a ground stall cannot easily absorb. The three points of toughness are the quieter half of the design. They put the creature above the reach of one-damage pings and the cheapest burn, so it lives long enough for the menace to convert rather than dying before it connects. That combination, evasion plus survivability, is exactly what a black aggressive midgame body wants: it applies pressure without asking the deckbuilder to bend anything around it, trimming a few off the top each turn it stays alive. This is filler built correctly, a creature designed to fill a slot honestly instead of anchoring a strategy. The Aetherborn Rogue line offers a tribal hook for builds that want one, but the card was made to push damage without apology, and it does that job cleanly.