Minas Tirith Garrison
A blocker's body with a raider's math. The toughness is a fixed 5, but the power reads straight off your hand, which makes this the rare beater whose stats you protect by not spending your cards. The engine is in the attack: swing, then tap untapped Humans to draw a card apiece, converting a wide board of bodies into a refilled hand. The elegant part is the sequencing. That draw happens during the Declare Attackers step, before blocks, so you refill first and the creature grows to match its new hand size before your opponent decides how to trade into it. You commit blockers against a threat that just got bigger. The tension the design accepts is self-inflicted: every Human you tap for a card is a Human that stays out of combat, so board damage now competes directly with hand size later. Vigilance quietly dissolves that choice, letting an attacker swing and still tap for its draw. It also exposes the honest fragility of the build. The power is entirely borrowed from a resource opponents can strip, and an empty hand leaves a 0/5 that only blocks. The payoff is not the beatdown; it is treating your own card flow as the win condition, going wide with cheap Humans and letting the garrison turn every extra body into another card and another point of pressure.
