Ankle Biter

The one-mana deathtoucher is a recurring green floor, and this is about as bare as the template gets: a Snake that trades with anything on the ground for a single mana. That trade math is the whole point. Deathtouch on a body this cheap makes every block a threat, so a bigger creature attacking into it becomes a bad trade the moment the defender declares a block. The 1/1 frame keeps the card safe from removal (nobody spends a card killing it) while leaving it a genuine early attacker, since blocking it means eating the deathtouch either way. Green has printed this effect in several shapes over the years, some carrying a downside, some with a slightly larger body; this version strips the design back to its plainest form, deathtouch and nothing else attached. It fills the aggressive one-drop slot and the go-wide deterrent slot at once: cheap enough to curve out with, sticky enough to gum up a ground stall. The defensive work it does rarely shows up in a highlight reel, but the presence of an untapped deathtoucher reshapes how an opponent maps their attacks and blocks, which is most of what a card this small can ask for.