Covert Operative

A 3/2 for five mana that can't be blocked is a deliberately limp rate, and the limpness is exactly the point: this is the common-rarity floor of the unblockable creature, the version printed so the ability could exist without bending anything out of shape. Unblockable bodies live or die on what gets stapled to them (equipment, an evasive-damage payoff, a poison counter), and the design lesson here is how far the cost has to balloon when evasion is the only thing on the card. Compare the creatures that do the same structural work for a fraction of the mana and you can read precisely what blue paid for a clean body with no drawback and no upside: nothing but the unblockability, priced as though it were a premium ability rather than a curiosity. The card exists to display the bare exchange rate of an evasion ability, stripped of the synergy hooks that make unblockable creatures actually worth running. Point to it when you want the unadorned baseline: the version blue's evasion got cheaper and sharper against in the years after, an early-era benchmark whose whole value is showing how much the ability cost before anyone learned to discount it.