Rotting Legion

A 4/5 body for five mana with exactly one string attached: it arrives tapped, unable to block the turn it lands. That single drawback is the entire bargain, a vestige of an older common-creature design language where a vanilla body could trade a sliver of tempo for a sliver of extra stats. The math is plain: the tap-on-entry costs you one turn of defense, and in exchange the toughness creeps up to a number that survives most common-rarity removal and brawls favorably in the air-and-ground clutter where commons fight. There is nothing else here, no triggered ability, no recursion, no zombie payoff beyond the creature type itself, and that austerity is the point. Filling out the back of a curve and handing a slow black deck a wall it can also swing with once the coast is clear is the whole job. It will never headline anything, but it is honest about what it is: a defensive body priced at a defensive discount, with the discount paid up front in the one moment a 4/5 would most want to block.