Goblin Bully

Two power, one toughness, two mana, and a type line with nothing printed beneath it: this is red's aggressive curve distilled to its lesson. The body teaches the trade math a new player needs before they learn anything else. The creature swings for two, but a single point of toughness means almost anything kills it, so the card pushes you to race rather than block. That clarity was the whole point of the introductory set it came from, which dispensed with instants and the stack so that creatures mostly attacked and blocked and nothing happened that a newcomer could not see coming. The Goblin type is the only flicker of complexity here, and it was incidental: there were no tribal payoffs in the set to make it matter, none of the sacrifice fodder, token swarms, or haste enablers that give the creature type its identity elsewhere. Subtraction is the design at work. Where most Goblins are defined by what they do beyond their stats, this one is defined by having nothing beyond them, sized precisely so the rate reads at a glance and the curve teaches itself. It is exactly what a game trying to onboard total beginners needed in its two-drop slot, and deliberately nothing more.