Maned Serval

Four toughness on a two-drop is a specific promise: this body was built to absorb, not to trade up. That toughness clears the low end of the burn range, shrugs off a two-damage bolt and stops most early attackers cold without dying, then stays untapped to do it again on the return swing. Vigilance is the pairing that makes the shape coherent, though not in the usual way. On a real attacker, vigilance is a tempo gift, letting a threat swing and still block. On a defensive creature with a single point of power, it does something quieter: it removes the false choice entirely, because the wall was never going to represent meaningful damage on offense. The keyword stops being an aggressive incentive and becomes a guarantee that the blocker is always home. That is a clean piece of common-rarity design logic: give the wall a keyword that reads as offense but functions as permanent availability, and you have a body that holds the ground while its controller assembles a game plan elsewhere. The single power is the ceiling, and it is deliberate; nothing about this creature wants to be a clock. It is early defense in a white base, an unglamorous floor rather than a card with a top end worth chasing.