You can't choose not to teach it
a vanilla creature is a creature with no abilities that has power and toughness equal to its converted mana cost, e.g
That said, there are some incredible reprints available in the set, alongside some very cool new cards too
A cheap token lord that builds out the board and provides two bodies for Orzhovs many sacrifice effects has interesting potential
With cards, people already know the characters to some extent, and they have personal feelings and attachments from playing the games, so you have to make sure there's no disconnect between the pieces and people's expectations
For example, if Narod, the Beige Flower and Doran, the Siege Tower ("Each creature assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power") are both on the battlefield, each time a creature would deal combat damage, that creature's controller chooses whether it assigns combat damage equal to its mana value or its toughness