Vanilla
Vanilla creatures carry zero rules text: no keyword abilities, no triggered or activated abilities, just raw stats. Grizzly Bears, the 2/2 for two that named the concept, plus Hill Giant, Gray Ogre, and Centaur Courser are the textbook examples. Players hunt these for set-symbol commander puzzles, draft signposts, and pure-beatstick filler. A creature with even a single printed keyword like Flying or Deathtouch is french vanilla, not true vanilla, so it falls outside this set. There are no sibling groupings to disambiguate here; the line is simply empty text box versus any printed ability.
Example cards
Also known as
- vanilla creature
- empty text box
- no abilities
- blank creature
- stats only
- plain beater
- no rules text



