Foot Soldiers

A vanilla creature from the original beginner-focused set, built to a curve that teaches more than it threatens: four mana for a 2/4 says, in plain numbers, "this is a defensive body, not a clock." Portal's whole mandate was a clean introduction to combat math for new players, which meant a deck full of creatures whose only job was to attack and block, with no triggered abilities or keywords to track. A 2/4 occupies a specific lesson in that curriculum: it survives most early aggression and trades up rather than down, the textbook wall that demonstrates why toughness matters as much as power. There is nothing on the card to interpret, no window to exploit, no rate to defend; the design is the absence of design, which was the point. As a piece of cardboard it is forgettable, and that forgettability is exactly what made it useful to the audience it was printed for: a body you could read in full and play correctly the first time you saw it.