Flametongue Kavu

The card-advantage idea that earned a name here is the body that removes a creature on its way in: you spend one card, gain a 4/2, and erase one of theirs, so the slot pays for itself before it has done anything else. The 4 damage is the number doing the heavy lifting. By the time you reach four mana it kills nearly everything an opponent has cast, which means the card rarely sits in hand waiting for a worthy target; it almost always has a job. The 4/2 frame is what that rate costs you. The 2 toughness folds to the same burn the card imitates and dies to most blocks, but the 4 power means it does not roll over quietly: it trades up against most mid-sized attackers and pressures planeswalkers and players when the board is clear. The asymmetry is the point. The removal half is what you are buying; the body is a fragile rider deliberately kept too small to make the package a runaway bargain. And the damage hits a creature, full stop: no reach to the face on entry, no answer for a planeswalker, no flexibility past the one task. What this shape codified is that a midrange creature can justify its slot purely by deleting another creature as it lands, and the template has been re-skinned across colors and eras since, each variant arguing over how large the body should be and how much damage is fair.