Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes

The tapped clause is the whole design: a 2/2 at one white mana would be an aggressive body on its rate alone, so it pays for that stat line by forfeiting its first window of relevance. Entering tapped means it can neither block nor attack until it untaps, which recasts a premium creature as a slow-arriving asset rather than an immediate threat. This is the same tax that has quietly balanced oversized cheap creatures for ages, borrowed off the tapped-land model and applied to a body instead of a mana source. The flavor and the mechanic move in lockstep here: a soldier who arrives compromised and needs a beat to come back online is exactly what tapped-entry does at the rules layer, and the rhyme is close enough that it reads as characterization rather than a nerf. What the card lacks in printed text it recoups as a chassis. It is a near-vanilla legendary leaning entirely on its cost and its typal lines (Human, Soldier, Hero) to earn a slot, built to be a subject that other cards reference rather than a payoff that stands alone.