Savage Gorilla

Read the activation cost before the body and the joke lands: a mono-green Ape whose only ability demands a blue and a black mana to fire. Nothing about a 3/3 for suggests it; the green here is a costume worn over an effect that lives squarely in the two colors green most opposes. Sacrifice it with and you shrink a target by -3/-3 and draw, which is removal-plus-replacement at instant speed, enough to kill most creatures it points at while refunding itself. But the math only matters if you have already paid three colors across the creature and its activation, and that is the point of the design. This is a riddle about color identity built into a single card: a green creature that does its real work only inside a deck willing to splash its enemy colors, a deliberate signpost for the wedge-and-shard experiments the era was running. The body is filler on its own; the mana symbols are the actual text. They tell you the card was never meant to be cast and untapped in a fair green deck. It was meant to advertise an idea, that the harshest color pairings could be married inside one spell, and to dare a builder to assemble the manabase that lets a gorilla cast a death-shrink and draw a card off the back end.