Southern Elephant

A 3/4 for four mana with no abilities is the most honest card a green set can print: a vanilla body sized exactly to survive the combat math of its era. The toughness is the whole point. Three power trades up or down depending on the table, but four toughness is the number that walks past the common burn and ground attackers of an early-era format, blocking without dying and attacking into a clogged board without trading. This is the creature that exists to set a baseline, the kind designers reprint when they need a green common whose only job is to occupy a curve slot and hold the line. There is nothing here to build around and nothing to misplay; the rate is the entire conversation, and the rate was tuned for a slower time when a 3/4 for four was a respectable midrange anchor rather than a footnote. Vanilla creatures like this are how a set establishes what "fair" looks like before it starts bending the rules with keywords, and the Elephant occupies that role without apology.