Cadaverous Knight

There is a small joke buried in the type line: knights get flanking because they ride into battle, and this one shambles. A Zombie Knight wearing a mechanic built for mounted cavalry is the kind of cross-tribe wink that early design allowed itself, and the keyword does its work regardless of the lore. Any blocker without flanking takes a -1/-1 when it declares against this creature, which lets a modest body win fights it has no business winning and survive trades against equals. The regeneration clause stacks a second layer of resilience on top, asking double black to shield it from destruction by removal or lethal combat damage. Both halves point the same direction: this is a creature that wants to stay on the board and grind, not race. The cost on that regeneration is the discipline keeping it honest, since the double-black requirement signals a committed black manabase rather than a splash, and it keeps the insurance from being free. It is a fair, attrition-minded common from an era when combat math was the central battlefield of the game, and it reads today as a fossil of how players were once taught that a body's worth lived as much in how it blocked and endured as in the number printed on its power slot.