Spider-Rex, Daring Dino

The crossover mash-up is the whole conceit: a hero who is simultaneously arachnid and theropod, and the design leans into both halves rather than picking one. Reach comes from the spider, trample from the dinosaur, and the pairing quietly makes the 6/6 body a two-way threat that blocks fliers and rolls through ground stalls with the same stat line. Ward is the piece that keeps it on the table long enough to matter: at six mana you cannot afford to lose the investment to a single kill spell, so the tax converts every point-and-click removal into a two-mana negotiation the opponent usually loses on a clogged turn. What makes the package cohere is that none of the three keywords is doing exotic work; they are the plain green toolkit (evasion up, evasion through, protection tax) stacked on a green fatty and asked to justify the full cost through redundancy rather than a splashy trigger. That is a deliberate choice for a licensed character build, where the flavor has to read instantly and the card cannot hide behind a novel mechanic. The result is a creature that reads as a finisher first and a role-player second: it wants to be cast, swung with, and defended, and the ward is there to make sure the sequence actually gets to happen.