Daggerback Basilisk

Deathtouch on a green body has always done the same defensive work: it turns a two-power creature into a roadblock that any attacker has to respect, because the damage math no longer cares about size. That is the whole bargain here. The 2/2 frame asks for three mana and offers nothing else, no evasion, no relevant trigger, no second ability to make the slot pay twice. What you get is a creature that trades up in combat with anything that swings into it and stalls anything that swings past it, and a body green is comfortable losing to take down a far larger threat. The basilisk creature type carries the keyword honestly: the flavor of a gaze that petrifies has always been deathtouch's mechanical home, going back to the earliest creatures that destroyed whatever they damaged. Daggerback Basilisk is the plain, common-rarity version of that idea, fixing nothing more than a curve gap for a green deck that wants an early defensive body with teeth. There is no engine to build around and no synergy axis to exploit; it is exactly what its keyword promises and not a card past that.