Fangren Hunter

The vanilla-with-a-keyword common, built to exactly one specification: green's standard rate for a body that gets through. Trample on a 4/4 for five is the floor green has long set for itself, the unambitious midrange beater that fills out a curve when nothing flashier presents itself. There is no enters-the-battlefield trigger, no activated ability, no tribal hook beyond Beast; the card's entire job is to attack and force chip damage past a single small blocker. That austerity is the point. A designer chose 4/4, chose trample, chose five mana, and chose to print nothing else, because green needs a clean, honest beater that does invisible structural work no marquee uncommon ever has to: giving removal something boring to trade with, reminding newer players what a creature is supposed to cost before the rares warp the math. It earned reprints across multiple core sets for exactly that reason. Calling it a placeholder undersells the deliberateness. This is the baseline rate made into a card, and the choice to leave the text box empty below the keyword is itself a statement about where the green-creature curve sits when nobody is being clever. It asks for nothing and offers nothing beyond a body that pushes damage, and that is an accurate profile rather than a knock.