Viashino Runner

Notable mostly as an early test of menace before menace had a name. Urza's Saga predates the keyword by nearly two decades; in 1998 the rules text spelled out the can't-be-blocked-except-by-two clause longhand, and only the modern Oracle templating folds it into the keyword you see now. The body itself is unremarkable on rate: four mana for a 3/2 was already behind the curve in a block defined by busted artifacts and free spells. What the card was really doing was probing how much a forced double-block is worth on a creature too small to threaten a real clock. The answer the design space eventually settled on, that evasion this conditional belongs on cheaper, more aggressive bodies, is exactly why nothing about Viashino Runner aged into relevance. It is a fossil of the period when Wizards was still pricing combat evasion by hand, one printing at a time, before the menace keyword consolidated the effect and pushed it down the curve where it actually bites.