Nimble-Blade Khenra

The toughness is the tell here. Prowess two-drops usually come stapled to a fragile, aggressive body that wants to attack into open mana and trade up; this one inverts the expectation, putting the bonus on a 1/3 that blocks far better than it swings. The result is a prowess creature built to survive the early turns rather than race through them: it holds the ground while you cast cheap noncreature spells and grows into a relevant attacker later. That defensive frame solves a real problem for spell-heavy decks early in the curve, where committing bodies competes with holding up instants. This is a wall that stonewalls one-drops and small aggressors, then turns lethal the moment you start chaining cantrips and burn. The +1/+1 is temporary, so the body resets each turn, which keeps the early defensive math honest while still letting a single big spell-heavy turn convert a blocker into a clock. It is a humble version of the prowess design, leaning on toughness where the keyword normally leans on tempo, filling the slot for an early presence in a deck that would rather be casting instants and sorceries than adding more creatures to the board.