Incurable Ogre

Five power for four mana is a real swing, and the card pays for it the way red has always paid for its biggest beaters: with toughness so thin the body folds to almost anything. One point means any chip of damage, any incidental ping, any first-striker in the way kills it outright before it ever swings again, and a 5/1 trades down to nearly every blocker on the table. The math is brutal and intentional: this is a creature built to land one big hit, not to hold a board. Red's history is full of these glass-cannon bodies that sacrifice durability for an aggressive rate, where the player choosing to run them is buying raw damage and accepting that the creature evaporates the moment it meets resistance. What sets this one a notch below the archetype's better examples is that it brings nothing past the body: no evasion to push the damage through, no haste to cash in before the opponent can answer, no trigger to leave value behind when it dies. It is the rate, naked, with the fragility as the entire cost. That makes it an honest design rather than a deceptive one, a creature that does exactly what its stats advertise and nothing more, for players willing to gamble on connecting once before the inevitable.