Leopard-Spotted Jiao

Two mana for a 3/1 in red is the aggressive-common rate that has existed in some form since the game's earliest hyperefficient beaters: all offense, no durability, a creature that trades its life expectancy for pressure. The 3/1 body is the whole calculation. Three power lands early damage and threatens to end games a turn faster than a bear would, while the single toughness means it dies to nearly everything: a stray point of damage, a chump block against a 1/1, the smallest ping. That fragility is not a flaw so much as the price of the clock. This is a card built to attack into an unformed board and then be gone, the sort of body that pays for its speed the moment the opponent stabilizes. A functional common designed to give a beatdown deck a two-drop that hits like a three-drop, with the understanding that it will not survive to attack twice.