Wetland Sambar

A 2/1 for two with no text is the most stripped-down thing a designer can put in blue: a clean two-mana body, no evasion, no trigger, nothing to read past the type line. The Elk creature type is the only flicker of personality, and it carries no weight here, since nothing was built to reward it. Cards like this exist because a curve needs a two-drop and a color needs a creature that costs what creatures of its size should cost. The job is to attack early, trade off, or hold the fort for a turn while a deck's actual plan assembles behind it; once the board climbs past one toughness, the body stops mattering, and it was never meant to do anything else. This is the baseline against which more interesting two-drops get measured: every blue creature with a tempo trigger or an evasive keyword is paying, in stats or in mana, for the privilege of not being this.