The bane of white-blue decks in that format was Cabal Torturer, and without Psionic Gift, the only good way to deal with this creature was to splash red or black as a third color, weakening your mana base
Updated by Chris Stomberg on May 11, 2023: In keeping with green's identity as the color of nature and growth, many of green's best one-drops are either a part of a killer combo or provide you with mana that later enables a combo
The key parts of an overrun are mana value, trample and lethality
cards are stacked vertically on top of each other and you have to pull out the entire stack to go diving
Prowess with haste is awfully good, and just when you run out of gas, you can drop this and flip it for a total of 4 mana in the right deck, and draw three cards