Hardy Veteran

The asymmetry is the whole design: a 2/2 that swells to a 2/4 for the entirety of your turn, then shrinks back to a plain 2/2 the moment the turn passes. That window dictates exactly how it reads in combat. On your turn it attacks as a body that trades up against most two-drops and survives a chunk of the cheap burn aimed at it; the extra toughness holds even while your opponent has priority to respond, because the bonus is keyed to whose turn it is, not who holds the stack. On their turn it blocks as a 2/2, vulnerable to the same spells it shrugged off a moment earlier. The tuning rewards the aggressor, not the defender: it wants to be swinging, where the toughness keeps it alive through a block, rather than sitting back as a wall it was never built to be. It is a deliberately humble take on the conditional-stat creature, the green-common version of a design that shows up elsewhere with anthem effects or upkeep triggers. No fuss, no trigger to track, no upkeep cost: just a static bonus gated to the half of the turn cycle where it matters most for a creature meant to be attacking.