Lizard Warrior

No keywords, no triggers, no text box at all: this is a study in the design philosophy of Portal, the beginner-focused set that stripped Magic down to creatures and direct damage and almost nothing else. The card teaches that power and toughness, plus a willingness to attack, is the entire proposition. The 4/2 split is the honest version of red's aggressive promise. It hits as hard as bodies twice its cost, and it dies to almost anything, which is exactly the trade red is supposed to make. Stacking four power onto two toughness at four mana is generous on the front and punishing on the back, the kind of glass-cannon math that later sets would dress up with haste or trample to justify the rate. Here it stands undressed. Portal aimed for cards legible at sight, and a creature whose only job is to be read off the card and sent into combat does that work cleanly. It is the baseline against which every red beater with actual text gets measured: this is what four mana buys you when it buys you nothing but a number, and the number is just barely not enough.