Armored Warhorse

Three toughness is the load-bearing number on this vanilla body. A 2/3 sits under the common one- and two-power attackers of early aggression, eating them in combat rather than trading down or getting shoved off the board for free; the same body at 2/2 loses every exchange it wins here. That single point of toughness is what separates a creature that anchors a ground stall from one that dies alongside whatever it blocks. The double-white cost is the only other thing happening, and it earns its keep: it locks the Horse into a heavy-white shell as the price of a stat line that blocks above its rate. This is a defensive body from the era before two-drops routinely arrived with a keyword attached, a clean common whose whole pitch is a color-demanding cost in exchange for combat math that favors the patient deck. No text to read into, no trigger to sequence around, no flourish. Modest by design, and honest about it.