Rotted Hulk
Five toughness on four mana buys one thing: the right to sit in front of an aggressive curve and not move. The body is built to absorb, parked high enough that most early attackers bounce off it and larger threats trade poorly into it. The two power is not decorative; it clips a token or a mana dork on the swing back and demands that anything blocking it commit real toughness, but nobody plays this to press an advantage. It is a wall that happens to have a heartbeat. Vanilla creatures of this shape belong to an old common-rarity tradition, the speed bump whose entire job is to fill a slot on the curve and buy a slower deck the turns it needs to reach its payoffs. There is no ability line to read, no trigger to sequence, no reason to build around it: the numbers are the whole offer, and the split between them (low power, high toughness) says exactly what the card is for. It lives at the floor of the black creature pool, where a defensive stat block earns its keep by being the body an aggressor least wants to see across the table on turn four.
