Rib Cage Spider

Defensive green commons live and die by the toughness number, and a four toughness wall with reach is built to do exactly one job well: stand in front of the air and the ground at once. The 1/4 body shrugs off most early aggression and trades up against fliers that expected to swing unopposed, which is the entire pitch. Green has always paid for its reach in stats rather than evasion, and this is that bargain in its plainest form: no upside beyond the block, no activated ability, no tribal hook that ever amounted to much. Spiders as a creature type were scattered filler for years before they cohered into anything worth supporting, so the typeline here is incidental rather than load-bearing. What you are looking at is a roadblock printed to give green decks a clean answer to flying beaters without bending the curve, a role green has filled with near-identical bodies across many sets. Effective at the thing it does, invisible the moment a format stops caring about small evasive creatures.