Pearled Unicorn

Alpha's creature design started from a fixed reference point: Grizzly Bears, the 2/2 for two in green, and everything else was priced off it. An extra mana bought you a different color, a point of toughness, a relevant creature type, a keyword, anything at all. This Unicorn paid the off-color tax and got nothing back. White's 2/2 for three was Savannah Lions' worse cousin, printed alongside it, and the gap between them is most of what early Magic learned about color-pie pricing in its first year. The card's only real legacy is as a reference point: the exact spot on the curve where a creature gives you nothing but its body, in the wrong color, at the wrong rate. Subsequent designs spent decades climbing out of that hole, first by adding a keyword, then a tribe, then a triggered effect on arrival, until the modern white three-drop became one of the most densely packed slots in the game. The Unicorn is the floor those cards are measured against, and the reason "French vanilla" eventually became the minimum acceptable design rather than the ceiling.