Runeclaw Bear

Empty text box, and that emptiness is the whole job. A green two-drop with a 2/2 body and nothing layered on top is the calibration point designers reach for when they need to talk about what a body costs before any keyword or trigger gets priced in. The grizzled bear shape (green, two mana, two power, two toughness) predates this printing by years and has been redrawn under a dozen names, but the function never changes: it is the zero on the rate scale, the unit of measurement every other green two-drop is graded against. When a designer prices a new card in that slot, they are asking how much relevant text it can carry before it stops being "a bear with upside" and becomes something else entirely. Its persistence across set after set is not nostalgia; vanilla creatures keep getting reprinted because a draft environment occasionally needs a body with no friction, a clean curve-filler that does exactly what its stats promise and nothing more. The honesty is the design. There is no trap, no tempo cost buried in a triggered ability, no rules text to misread. It is the creature against which "above rate" and "below rate" are even definable terms.