Bull Cerodon

Vigilance and haste on the same creature is a quiet contradiction: haste says "swing the turn it lands," vigilance says "and keep it back to block." Together they erase the usual cost of a fresh attacker, which is the open turn while it sits in your hand and the open board while it taps to attack. A 5/5 that arrives, hits for five immediately, and stays standing to wall whatever comes back is a beatdown card that never leaves you exposed, which is precisely why it lives in red-white: the color pair that wants to apply pressure without surrendering the defensive posture aggression usually demands. The six-mana price is the leash. By the time you can cast it, the haste is less about racing and more about denying an opponent the planning window they would get against a creature with summoning sickness; the vigilance is what lets it function as both clock and answer in the same combat step. It is a deliberately undecorated design: no evasion, no trigger, no protection, just two keywords chosen because they pull against each other and a body large enough to make both matter. The result is a creature that behaves less like a finisher you build around and more like a stat line that refuses to give the opponent a clean turn, on offense or defense.