Jedit's Dragoons

A defensive wall that pays its own toll. The body is built to absorb: a 2/5 frame stonewalls ground attackers while vigilance lets it hold the line without surrendering its own attack step, and the four life on arrival buys back roughly two turns of the clock it was struggling against. This is white's "stabilize" idea distilled into a single common: take the bleeding off the table on the turn it lands, then plant a blocker too thick to chew through. The era it comes from leaned on this template heavily, where a stout-bodied ground defender with an enters-the-battlefield lifegain trigger was the standard answer to a curve that had outrun you. What dates it is the rate, not the function: six mana for a 2/5 that gains four life reads as slow now, and the role it fills (life buffer plus board anchor) has been compressed into cheaper, more flexible cards since. The Cat Soldier line is flavor lineage rather than mechanical relevance; the dragoons are foot troops, and the card plays exactly like foot troops, holding ground and bleeding the opponent's tempo dry without ever being the reason you win.