Jeskai Student

The defensive build of prowess. Most prowess one-drops and two-drops want to attack: a low toughness is fine when the plan is to swing for lethal off a chain of cheap spells. This one inverts the priority, putting the bigger number on the back, so the spells you cast to pump it also keep it alive as a blocker. A 1/3 walls early aggression on its own, and each noncreature spell turns it into a 2/4, then a 3/5, climbing the toughness line in lockstep with the power. It reads less as a clock and more as an anchor: a creature that holds the ground a spell-heavy deck cedes while it sets up, becoming an attacker only once the board has enough triggers to push through. The trade is that it asks the deck to commit to noncreature density before it does anything, the same demand every prowess creature makes, but here the payoff is durability rather than reach. A controlling spells deck reaches for this body when it wants its prowess threat to survive a turn it taps out.