Forest Bear

The vanilla creature stripped to its purest arithmetic: two mana, 2/2, no text. Grizzly Bears set this template early, and this is the same body under a different name, printed for a set built around a distinct flavor world where a plain bear needed to exist in green regardless of any keyword. What the card teaches is the baseline against which every two-mana creature is priced. A 2/2 for two is the reference point designers push above and pull below: give it an ability and the stats shrink, add a drawback and the body grows, hand it a relevant creature type and the raw numbers stay honest while the synergy carries the slot. Here there is no synergy to carry, only the Bear type, which for most of the game's history was more running joke than tribal payoff. That makes this a curio rather than a workhorse: a functional reprint of the oldest creature math in the game, distinguished by nothing except the name on the type line and the region it was drawn for. It fills the green common-body slot the way water fills a glass, taking the shape of whatever needs a two-drop that blocks and attacks and does nothing else.