Highborn Vampire

No keywords, no abilities, no text below the type line: this is a plain 4/3 for four mana, and there is nothing to balance because there is nothing to unbalance. Four power on four mana was a below-rate deal long before this creature was printed, and the toughness is the honest tell about its ambitions: three points is enough to trade up into a curve-topper and enough to die to a stiff breeze, so it was built to apply pressure and get traded away, not to anchor a board. The one reason to reach for it over any other generically-sized beater is the type line: a Vampire and a Warrior in the same slot, which matters only to decks stacking one of those tribes for a payoff. Everything else passes it by, and there is no shame in that. Sets need bodies at every point on the curve, and a plain creature of a relevant type is the least glamorous but most necessary kind of filler: printed to fill out a tribe and hold a curve slot, doing exactly the work its stat line advertises and no more.