Bristling Boar

The evasion clause here is not menace but its inverse: menace forces two or more blockers, while this text caps the defender at no more than one. That single-blocker restriction is a quieter, more surgical kind of evasion, and it changes the combat math in the attacker's favor. A 4/3 that can only be met by one creature at a time cannot be gang-blocked into a clean trade; the defender either commits a single blocker large enough to survive four damage, or takes the hit, or throws away one creature to slow it down. Against a board of small ground creatures that would normally swarm a beater, that restriction keeps the damage flowing. This is the sort of straightforward evasion design that filled out commons and lower-end uncommons in the era before every keyword had a formal name, back when abilities like this were spelled out in a sentence rather than given a name of their own. There is nothing happening on the stack and no decision the card asks of its controller beyond pointing it at the opponent; the entire constraint lives on the defending side. As a curve-filler it does one honest thing well and asks for nothing in return, which is the whole brief for a body at this slot.