Crooked Custodian

Black rarely hands out a 3/2 for two mana without a real toll bolted on, and here the toll is deliberately soft: it enters tapped and nothing more. On offense that barely registers, since a creature without haste would sit idle its first turn regardless; this one just waits a beat, then untaps and pushes damage on the same clock a vanilla two-drop would. The bite is purely defensive. Through your opponent's following turn it cannot stand in front of anything, so a quick aggressive start can steal a hit or two while it comes online. This is the downside-vanilla school in its cleanest form: a hard stat line bought back by one flat, unconditional penalty instead of a mechanic that wants a shell built around it. Nothing lurks under the tap, no untap trigger, no sacrifice payoff, no graveyard hook, so patience earns you nothing beyond the creature standing up. What you see is the entire transaction, an aggressor priced a notch under the color's usual rate in exchange for a single turn of not blocking. Honest filler, doing exactly the one job the rate advertises.