Ferocious Pup

Two bodies from one card, and the printed creature is the smaller half of the deal by design: a 0/1 whose whole reason for existing is to hand off a 2/2 Wolf token that does the actual work. The total is two power spread across two creatures, which is the point. A single 2/2 for the same cost would hit harder on the battlefield but do nothing for any deck that counts heads rather than power. Splitting the payoff into two separate bodies is what earns the slot: two entries for convoke, two chumps to throw in front of an attacker, two morsels for a sacrifice outlet, two targets for anthem effects, and (crucially) two death triggers for an aristocrats engine that turns each dying body into drain or draw. The frail 0/1 shell is the honest tax on all of that: you are not getting a clean two-for-one of useful creatures, you are paying in fragility for a second body the first was always going to produce. Absent a shell that treats creatures as a resource to be counted and consumed, it is plain green filler with a body that folds to almost anything. Inside a token or sacrifice deck, the second body is worth more than the mana rate suggests.