Elvish Pathcutter

Pay two generic and a green, point at one of your Elves, and it slips past any defender sitting on a Forest. That is the whole engine: an evasion granter for tribal green decks that mass their bodies and then funnel them through a single, repeatable activation. The trouble is the condition baked into forestwalk. It only matters when the opponent controls a Forest, so the ability is electric in a green mirror and inert against everyone else. A 1/2 body contributes almost nothing to the attack it enables; the card's job is to sit back and arm whatever you have already assembled, three mana at a time. Whether that math pays depends on how many activations you can string together and how many Elves you want pushing through at once.

That dependency is why the card never escaped its niche. Generic unblockable grants do the same structural work without caring what lands the defender controls, and a four-mana setup piece that needs a deep board before it accomplishes anything asks for a great deal of commitment up front. It belongs to an early era when designers routinely pinned evasion to specific land types, a lever that has largely been retired for exactly the reason this Elf demonstrates: an effect that reads as unblockable aggression against one opponent reads as a blank against the next.