Fervent Champion

For one red mana you get a body with first strike and haste that can attack the turn it lands, but the two riders make clear this was never meant to fight alone. The attack trigger only pumps another attacking Knight, so the card is inert as a lone threat and only starts paying rent once there is a tribe to feed. That dependency is exactly what buys the aggressive combat math and the pump effect for a single mana: the design assumes a supporting cast rather than standing on its own. The equipment discount is the sleeper clause, the reason this reads less like a lord and more like a designated carrier. Equip abilities that target it cost three less to activate, so hanging a Sword or heavier gear on it happens a full turn ahead of schedule, and the creature that started as tribal glue becomes the deck's threat density in one attack step. That is where the ceiling and the floor sit so far apart. Loaded into a board of Knights with equipment to move around, it snowballs; drawn late into an empty board, it is a hasty chump attacking for one. The whole card is a commitment to the aggressive-tribe premise, asking the builder to hold up their end before it holds up its.