Attended Knight

Two bodies for three mana, split across a 2/2 with first strike and a 1/1 token, is the kind of math that quietly outperforms its rarity. The split matters more than the total: a board that arrives in two pieces survives a single removal spell better than one fat creature, feeds anything that wants creatures to sacrifice or convoke, and gives a token-matters or go-wide deck a built-in second trigger from a single card. First strike on the larger half makes it a clean blocker against early aggression, trading up against most two-drops while the Soldier sits back. None of this is flashy, and that is the point: this is the workmanlike common-to-uncommon archetype glue that a white deck leans on to keep its curve honest and its body count high. Knight tribal gives it a tribe to belong to, but the card was built for the broader job of putting two relevant white creatures onto the table for one card and one turn, a rate that has anchored small-creature white strategies in every era that prints something like it.