Headless Horseman

A 2/2 for three mana with an empty text box, printed into a set otherwise crammed with one-of-a-kind designs and overstuffed rules text. The Horseman is interesting precisely because it has nothing: a flavor card with a Sleepy Hollow name, a Zombie Knight type line that would not become meaningful for another decade of tribal printings, and a body that was already below the curve when Hypnotic Specter (also a three-drop, also black, also from earlier the same year) had set the rate for what a black three-drop was supposed to do. The card belongs to a moment when "creature with no rules text" was still a normal thing to print at uncommon, and when the cost of a body in black was not yet pinned down. Subsequent printings (Scathe Zombies at common for the same cost and stats, then Walking Corpse cutting a mana off without changing anything else) walked the rate steadily downward until the Horseman's slot stopped existing. It survives now as a name and a flavor beat, occasionally relevant because the Zombie Knight type line picks up incidental support whenever those tribes get attention, but the card itself is a fossil of how black creatures were costed before the color's identity firmed up.