Aquus Steed

The -2/-0 is one of the gentler ways to neutralize a creature: it does not kill, does not bounce, it just shaves attack power off whatever it points at, then resets and asks to do it again next turn. That makes the body the real story. A 1/3 absorbs a hit and sits behind a tap ability that works as a soft Fog engine against a single threat, repointed each combat to whatever the opponent commits to the red zone. The cost is the friction: three mana plus the tap means each activation is a genuine investment, and the -2/-0 lasts only until end of turn, so it answers attackers rather than removing them. A 3/3 still gets through for one against a chump-block plan, and a 4/4 leaks through for two even after the shave. Against a developed board it does almost nothing; against a single oversized beater it merely degrades the math turn by turn. This is a defensive utility creature in the older tradition of combat-shaping pingers that never touch the graveyard: it wants a slow game where one repeated tap ability compounds across turns, the same way a recurring tapper or fog effect wears down a clock without spending a card per attacker. Built for the controlling deck that would rather grind down an aggressor's damage output than answer each threat outright.