Faithbearer Paladin
A 3/4 lifelink body for five mana is the kind of card that fills out a common slot without asking much in return: it stabilizes the mid-game, trades up against most of what wants to attack into it, and banks a slow trickle of life on the swing back. The job is plain. Four toughness paired with lifelink means it survives the combat it invites and turns each attack into a life cushion, which rewards the grindy white midrange that wins by outlasting rather than outracing. That is the whole pitch, and it is an honest one. There is no second ability, no enters-the-battlefield trigger, no synergy hook beyond the keyword itself. Designed as common-rarity glue for a defensive white archetype, it does the unglamorous work a curve needs: a body that gains life, costs nothing in deckbuilding terms, and asks only that you have five lands. Reasonable filler where lifegain matters, ignored anywhere creatures cost less than they earn.


