Raging Bull

A vanilla 2/2 dropped into the set that introduced legendary permanents, the multicolor frame, and the first wave of design experiments that would shape the next decade of Magic. The interesting thing here is not the card itself but what it represents: even Legends still needed common-slot ballast that did nothing but attack and block. The rate is dismal by any modern yardstick: Grizzly Bears bought the same body for two mana, a full point of mana value cheaper than the three printed here, so the card never saw meaningful play even in its own era. It survives now as design archaeology, a reminder that early Magic priced creature bodies on a curve that has shifted so far the original baseline reads almost as a misprint. The Ox creature type, dormant for years until tribal matters reached deeper into the bestiary, is the lone footnote that gives the card any later relevance at all.