Minotaur Warrior

A 2/3 for three with no abilities and no instant-speed tricks to learn around it, built for a set that deliberately removed most of Magic's complexity so the game could be taught from the box. The whole instructional content is in the numbers: a body that survives a 2-power attacker and dies to a 3-power one, legible at a glance without a rules reference. The two creature types are pure decoration here, printed long before tribal text on Minotaurs or Warriors carried any mechanical weight; the name is flavor, the stat line is the function. Cards like this are the negative space that makes the rest of the game readable. Every keyword, every triggered ability, every combat trick printed since gets measured against the silence of a creature that simply stands in the way and trades. There is no angle to inflate and none worth inventing: a clean, intentionally inert red common, sized to do exactly one thing and demonstrate it clearly.