Axebane Stag

A vanilla 6/7 is about as bare as a green fatty gets: no keyword, no trigger, no decision past tapping out and swinging. The toughness is the whole argument. Seven on the back end survives nearly every ground exchange a green creature deck will run into, walking through combat math that buries lesser bruisers while six power applies a clock that, against grounded opponents, is enough to actually close. The catch is what it cannot reach: with no flying and no reach of its own, the wall guards only the dirt, and any flier sails over it untouched. That gap defines the body more than the stat line does, because a blocker that ignores the air is a blocker with a labeled seam in it. The Elk type is wildlife dressing, never a tribe anyone built around. What the design offers is a top-of-curve green creature that refuses to trade down in a ground fight, demanding a heavy mana commitment for a body that settles who wins the soil and nothing else. There is nothing to read in the stack here, no timing wrinkle to exploit, and that flatness is honest: it does one job, does it without flying, and never pretended otherwise.