Prickly Boggart

A one-drop with evasion was once a real piece of black aggression's toolkit, and Fear is the keyword that did that work in black's early evasive vocabulary. The promise is plain: a body that connects nearly every turn, since blocking it requires either an artifact creature or a black creature, two columns most opponents simply will not field. That makes the card a reliable carrier for whatever you stack on it, the kind of one-power threat that becomes a problem the moment it holds a piece of equipment or a pump effect. The Goblin Rogue type line gestures at two tribal axes at once, though neither carries much weight on a vanilla-plus body. What pins this firmly to the early end of black's evasive curve is the rate: a single black mana for a 1/1 that gets through was a fair common when sword-and-counter combat math was slower and creatures hit harder for their cost. The design ages the way most plain-bodied evasion does, outpaced by later one-drops that brought a relevant ability alongside the evasion. It remains a clean illustration of what Fear was for: cheap, repeatable damage that asks the opponent to build a defense they probably did not.