Tree Monkey

Reach on a green one-drop is the most honest expression of what the keyword is for: a ground creature that swats flyers without pretending to fly itself. The Portal sets aimed their design language at newcomers, leaning hard on creatures whose abilities matched their flavor cleanly. A monkey that climbs trees and bats down birds is exactly that kind of card, a 1/1 whose single rules word does one job and explains itself in the doing. There is no hidden upside here, no second mode, no late-game scaling; the body is small and the ceiling is the keyword. The card is the baseline against which every later, better green spider and reach creature gets measured: the rate that proves how cheaply the ability can be stapled onto a body when the body itself is contributing nothing else. Later printings would fold reach into creatures worth playing on their own merits, but this one is the keyword in isolation, sold at its floor.