Sedge Scorpion

Deathtouch is what turns a one-mana 1/1 into a tax on the entire combat phase. A bear-sized attacker cannot profitably trade into this; a fatty cannot block through it without losing both creatures; even the largest body on the table has to respect the math, because deathtouch flattens the toughness column to a single point of damage. That is the strategic axis: this card does not win races, it polices them. The body never grows and never threatens lethal, so the value lives entirely in the deterrence: an attacker opponents would rather not run into, a blocker that ransoms anything sent across the board. Green rarely gets to deal in deathtouch at this rate, which is the quiet point of the design. The color's identity leans on raw size, and a one-drop that ignores size entirely is a deliberate corrective, handing green a cheap answer to the very thing it usually wins on. Bolt the deathtouch onto a repeatable damage source (a Viridian Longbow strapped to its back, a bite spell that lets it fight without dying) and the single point of deterrence becomes a recurring removal license rather than a one-time trade. Even without that scaffolding, the card earns its keep by standing in front of things much larger than itself and daring the swing.