Grizzled Outrider

Vanilla in the strictest sense the term earns: no keywords, no triggers, nothing below the type line at all. Five mana for a 5/5 is the plainest deal green makes, and that plainness is the whole assignment. Green has printed this exact rate under many names across the game's history, each functionally identical once you strip the flavor off: a large creature that costs precisely what a large creature ought to. The rate is deliberately unremarkable. It trades up against most bodies its size or smaller, blocks anything short of a genuine threat, and does the arithmetic a green curve wants at the top of its cheap slots without asking for a build-around or presenting a downside to play around. There is nothing to chase and nothing to fear, which is the point of a card built to fill a hole rather than justify a slot. The Elf Warrior line is the only wrinkle, and a faint one: it hands the body a creature type that a tribal shell can occasionally count, though the card was clearly never designed with that in mind. This is green's floor for a fair, big creature, the reliable filler a color leans on when reliability is cheap and a bomb is not what the situation calls for.