Wild Elephant

A French-vanilla green four-drop with trample is the kind of card that exists to define a baseline rather than break one. Green's color pie has always paid for raw size, and a 3/3 with trample at four mana sits comfortably below the rate green commons would later command: by the time the keyword soup of modern sets arrived, a body this size for this cost read as filler rather than a battlefield event. What it does mark is an early data point in trample's pricing history. Trample is the keyword that turns excess power into reach, the thing that lets a creature push through a chump blocker and still land damage, and that small clause is the entire difference between this and a plain 3/3. The design discipline here is restraint: no enters-the-battlefield trigger, no pump, no evasion beyond the single keyword, just a green creature priced as a curve-filler that occasionally trades up in combat. It belongs to the long tail of beaters that taught the design team exactly how much a vanilla-plus-keyword body should cost, and where the line sits before such a card needs a reason to exist beyond its stats.