Yeah, this is good at either 4/4 for or 4/3 for .

Costing this is interesting. Nettle Swine says that a 4/3 vanilla is ; Sentinel Spider says that adding just gives you Vigilance, Reach, +0/+1. So even feels quite harsh for this chap.

I think is probably the right place; trading 1 toughness for Vigilance against Rumbling Baloth

Converted to regeneration instead of vigilance, in order to free Vigilance up for a larger creature since larger creatures don't tend to regenerate at common.

Reminds me of Lys Alana Bowmaster. Though actually it turns out there's a whole stable of cards that deal 2 damage to target creature with flying. The Bowmaster has rather stronger abilities, but a 3/3 for 4 mana is usually more relevant in Limited than a 2/2 for 3 mana so it likely balances out.

It's certainly a very synergistic pair of abilities and P/T. Vigilance may turn out to be overdoing it, but while this is very playable it's also not going to win many games on its own, so I think it's in a fine place.

Apes are the new goblins.

Anyway, seems like a fair medium common to me. Efficient; but only if there's something middling flying that you wanna shock.

In case the flavour isn't clear, the art would show an ape whipping a high tree branch into some flying creature's face.

This seems solid. But of a stalley card but I doubt problematically so.

Sometimes, being the best there is at what you do offers high marks on Gatherer. It probably picked up 5 stars from a number of players who were always looking, but could never find anything better.

more interested in the name and what the art would look like ....