Baldin, Century Herdmaster
A 0/7 that hits like a 7/7, and then some. The static ability flips the combat math for your whole team during your turn: creatures deal damage equal to toughness instead of power, which turns a wall into a threat and rewards a build stacked with high-toughness, low-power bodies that would otherwise never see the red zone. That inversion is the design idea, and it does something most white team-pump effects never bother with: it makes defensive stats offensive without touching power at all. The attack trigger then leans into the same axis from the opposite direction, handing out toughness (up to a hundred creatures at once, a number chosen for spectacle rather than practicality) scaled to your hand size, so every card you are holding widens the swing. The two abilities read as one thought: toughness is your damage, so grow toughness. The deckbuilder has to abandon the usual instinct that power is what kills and treat a fat rear number as the whole game plan. The 0/7 body is the proof of concept, a creature that assigns seven every time it connects while contributing nothing to a conventional attack step. Nothing here is subtle, but the mechanic is a genuinely clean expression of a rarely-explored space: an entire combat strategy routed through the stat everyone else treats as purely defensive.
