Coral Eel

Two power, one toughness, two mana, and no rules text at all: this is blue's entry in a starter-set curve designed so a brand-new player never has to read past the type line. The lineage is Grizzly Bears, the 2/2 that defined what a fair two-drop costs, redrawn through blue's traditional fragility. Hold the aggression, shave a point of toughness, and you get a Fish that wins a fight against a lone one-drop but dies to a stiff breeze, the trade-off blue creatures have always been asked to make. The absence of an activated ability or evasion is not an oversight; it is the entire pedagogical function. A beginner learning what the combat step does can hold this card's whole behavior in their head at once, with no instant-speed surprise to track and no keyword to look up. The Eel teaches that creatures attack, creatures block, and a 2/1 is a body that has to pick its battles carefully. Everything a new player needs to understand about how blue plays defense, and nothing they would have to unlearn later.