Striped Bears

The plainest possible answer to a recurring green-creature design problem: how to make a body that does nothing in combat worth a card by stapling a card to it. At four mana for a 2/2 with an enters-the-battlefield draw, the rate is honest rather than exciting, and that honesty is the point. The trigger means the creature never costs you a card; it converts your four mana into a body plus a fresh card, leaving your hand size where it started. That is the floor every cantrip creature since has been measured against, from Elvish Visionary down at two mana to the larger bodies that bolted the same draw onto a relevant stat line. This sits at the inefficient end of that lineage, a design baseline rather than a constructed staple: the price replacement-value costs when you ask for nothing else from the body. The flavor is its own small joke, the literal bear being the unit green decks have always been measured in, here drawn holding a card to underline the point.