Jungle Lion

A green one-drop that hits for two and gives up the option to block: this is the green expression of an idea red usually owns. The cost of the body is the can't-block clause, the same balancing lever that priced early aggressive creatures across colors. Green at one mana rarely got a clean 2/1 in this era; the drawback is what bought the extra point of power, casting a defensive color in a beatdown role for a turn. The design is honest about what it is asking: you are not paying for a creature that holds the ground, you are paying for one that ignores it. The clause does double duty as a lesson in tradeoffs, the simplest possible illustration that a creature's stats and its keywords are two halves of the same price. One tradeoff stated once, with nothing else to read.