Garrison Cat

The trade that isn't a trade. A one-drop that leaves a body behind when it dies has been white's tool for keeping a board presence sticky since the earliest replacement-token designs, and this one does the job cleanly: block or attack, take the exchange, and the 1/1 you paid for becomes a 1/1 you still have. What that buys is resilience against sweepers and one-for-one removal, but the more pointed use is fodder. Two creatures out of one card is exactly what sacrifice engines want, so the cat feeds convoke, feeds aristocrat drains, feeds anything that counts creatures dying and creatures entering as two separate accounting events. The token being a Human Soldier rather than another Cat is a small but deliberate choice: it hands the death trigger off to a different tribal ecosystem than the one the creature itself belongs to, which occasionally matters and occasionally doesn't. This is not a card that warps anything. It is a piece of the white-weenie substructure, a body that refuses to fully die, priced so a deck built on going wide never feels bad about running a few.