Defender of the Order

Morph turns this into a defensive ambush, and the trigger is built to swing a combat math problem in your favor mid-block. Sitting face down as a 2/2, it invites attackers; flipping it for two white mana drops a 2/4 wall onto the board and, in the same instant, hands every creature you control two extra toughness through end of turn. That timing is the entire point: an opponent commits to an alpha strike or a trade they think they have calculated, and the face-up trigger rewrites the toughness column after attackers are declared and before damage resolves. A burn spell short by a point, a combat trade that suddenly survives, an attacker that bounces off a wall they assumed they could push through. The +0/+2 is deliberately team-wide rather than self-targeting, which means the morph cost is buying a defensive blowout for your whole board, not just protection for the Cleric flipping up. It is a creature designed less to attack than to make an opponent regret theirs, and the morph shell is what hides the threat until the moment the math is already locked in.