Knight of Glory

Protection from black is a hatebear's resume printed onto a 2/1 white beater: it walks past black removal, ignores black blockers in combat, and laughs at black auras, all the things a mono-black opponent leans on to keep a small creature in check. The keyword pairs with exalted in a way that quietly rewards the same plan, since the card wants to swing alone and grow while doing it. Send it in by itself and the +1/+1 turns it into a 3/2 that black struggles to interact with on the battlefield, a clock that demands a non-black answer or a chump block. The design sits in a long line of color-pie protection creatures, the white knight handed protection from black being a template the game has reached for since its earliest sets, but bolting exalted on top reframes it from a defensive sideboard body into a proactive aggressive one. It is built for the deck that wants a single threat to carry a turn rather than a wide board, and against an opponent whose whole removal suite is the wrong color, it stops being a fair card.