Benalish Faithbonder

Benalish Faithbonder is the mechanic's most literal answer to a recurring white-weenie problem: how to keep a defensive body relevant on the turns it isn't blocking. A 1/3 with vigilance is built to sit back, and vigilance already lets it swing without dropping its guard. Enlist stacks a second incentive on top: on an attack, it can borrow the power of a single rested creature you control, converting a body sitting idle at home into extra reach on the swing. The two keywords play different roles rather than reinforcing each other, and that friction is worth naming. Vigilance keeps the Faithbonder untapped to block on the crackback, but enlist taps the creature it recruits, so the donor is spent for the turn: it lends its power and then sits tapped, unavailable on defense. That makes enlist a decision about which single creature you can afford to leave without its blocking body, not a way to funnel a whole board through one attacker. It also scales with development, since enlist demands a creature without summoning sickness, so this rewards a settled board rather than opening a game. That places it firmly in the go-wide white tradition, where individual bodies are cheap and the payoff is in combination. The shape worth studying is the power-donation itself: it lets one attacker land a much heavier hit if it connects, with the Faithbonder's vigilance covering the swing back.