Alpha Tyrranax

Six mana, no text box, six power that hits and stands up to most one-shot removal at five toughness: this is the green baseline in its most literal form, the abilityless body that every green creature with words on it gets priced against. The 6/5 for is the control case, the version of the slot with nothing added, so the cards above it have something concrete to be measured worth paying extra over. It forces no decision and exploits no window. What it does instead is the oldest thing green does: trade up in combat, dodge the damage-based sweeper, and turn an empty board across the table into a clock. There is a long lineage of these big vanilla beaters, each one a quiet ruler for the slot it occupies, and the reason designers keep printing them is that abilities only read as upgrades when there is a plain body to upgrade from. Honest filler in the truest sense: it asks nothing of the deck around it and gives back exactly the power it prints.