Stone Giant

A genuinely strange piece of early design: a 3/4 for four mana that exists to throw your other creatures off a cliff. The activation reads like a combat trick (your creature gets flying!) and ends like an execution: the launched body is destroyed at the next end step, the kind of two-clause ability that early red wrote without flinching. The intent is flavor-first rather than power-first. The giant is literally chucking your smaller creatures over the enemy line, and it buys that flight by destroying the launched body, the way a catapult shot does not get its ammunition back. The gate is toughness, not power: anything with toughness 2 or less is eligible regardless of how hard it hits, so a fragile, high-power body (a 5/2, a 6/1) can be launched for a full strike of evasive damage before the fall claims it. That last piece is the part the original designers could not have planned for: decades of sacrifice payoffs, death triggers, and recursion targets have retroactively given the activation an outlet it never had when the game was young, when throwing your own Mons's Goblin Raiders to its death was simply how a Stone Giant fought. It comes from a vanished design language where red's creatures carried elaborate, self-punishing combat abilities at common and uncommon, and where flavor was allowed to write checks the rate could not cash.