Jhovall Queen

The toughness is the whole pitch. Six mana buys a 4/7 with vigilance, a body shaped almost entirely around the back number: it attacks for four without ever dropping its guard, and on defense it parks in front of most things that fight on the ground and refuses to die to them. That was a real role in the late-1990s creature ecology, when most aggressive bodies topped out at three or four power and toughness was the scarcer, more expensive stat to buy. A wall that swings is a different thing from a wall that only blocks, and vigilance is the keyword that collapses the choice: there is no turn where this either races or holds the fort, because it does both at once. The cost is the honest tax on that. Six mana for four power is a steep rate by any era's math, and the card pays for the toughness and the vigilance in raw efficiency rather than hiding the bill. The instinct behind it belongs to an older school that sold defense as a premium: a creature you cast not to outpace the opponent but to make their plan unworkable, then to grind in for four a turn while their attackers stall against the seven.