Built Bear

The Legacy mechanic turns deckbuilding into a point-buy character sheet, and this humble bear frame is where it goes to prove itself: a 2/2 for two that you customize before the game starts by circling options and paying the tax in printed mana. The economy carries the design. One point is free, so the baseline build is a slightly-better-than-vanilla body with a single keyword grafted on; every two points beyond that adds another generic mana to the cost, so the card ranges from a clean tempo two-drop to a sprawling high-cost toolbox creature depending on how greedy you get. The tiers encode a value judgment: keywords like flash, deathtouch, reach, vigilance, and ward run one point apiece, while a mana-producing tap ability sits at two, stat bumps at three, and a card-draw enters-the-battlefield trigger at four. That laddering keeps the card an exercise rather than a strictly-better creature: the more relevant text you circle, the further from an efficient body you drift, so the sharp builds are the ones that stop early. It is a bear that asks you to decide, once, exactly how much bear you want to pay for.