Noxious Groodion

Deathtouch on a 2/2 for three mana is not a threat; it is a rate that reprices combat. Any attacker larger than it now trades down, so the keyword functions less like removal and more like a standing tax on aggression: the opponent either respects the block, hands over a bigger creature, or attacks elsewhere. That is the entire strategic axis of a French vanilla deathtoucher at this size. It has no way to force the fight and no evasion of its own, so left to itself it sits back and makes the ground unpleasant to walk across; give it a fight effect or a scrap of reach and the same keyword that plays defense becomes a one-shot kill on anything. The body is deliberately underrated for its cost, which is the point: you are paying for the guarantee that the creature it dies with dies too, not for the two points it swings. The Beast type and the menagerie name gesture at flavor without asking you to build around them; there is no tribal payoff, no activated ability, no counters to track. What is here is a keyword doing honest work at a fair price, the kind of common that keeps combat math tense without ever headlining the board.