Timber Wolves

A plain green one-drop on the front, and a tutorial on the back. From Alpha through the mid-90s, this was one of the canonical teaching cards for banding, the mechanic that asked players to learn an entirely new combat subsystem: how to attack as a group, how to assign blockers to a group, and most importantly how the banding player (not the opponent) divides incoming combat damage across the blocking or blocked band. The rate is the giveaway. A 1/1 for one green has no business existing as a creature; it exists as a delivery vehicle for a keyword that needed cheap, repeatable bodies to demonstrate the rules text. Banding's design problem was that the keyword reads as a small combat trick and plays as a complete rewrite of damage assignment, which is why most banding creatures were costed as if the ability were nearly free. Wizards eventually conceded the experiment: banding stopped appearing on new cards, the comprehensive rules quarantined it, and the keyword now survives as a relic mechanic studied more than played. What is left here is a museum piece in the most literal sense, a one-mana green creature whose entire reason for being printed is to carry a rules paragraph longer than the card itself.