Daily Card Redesign #128: Hunting Cheetah

Daily Card Redesign is a daily Magic: The Gathering design exercise where I randomly choose a card for the scenario of it being killed late during its own set's development. I design a replacement card that uses the same art, is the same color, is the same rarity, and has a name that, alphabetically, keeps it within the same collector number for the set.

Redesign:

Seeing this field made me want to give this cheetah plainswalk. But, as it turns out, Zodiac Rooster, one of the few plainswalkers in all of Magic: The Gathering, makes an appearance in the same set. So, that option was out.

Haste is in green, but it only rarely appears on green cards. However, this would be a good time for green to get a haste creature, right? Cheetahs are well-known for their speed! Being fast is typically represented in three ways: flash, first strike, and haste. First strike and flash are out because this card appears in the set Portal Three Kingdoms. So, haste it was.