Noble Steeds

Parking a repeatable first-strike granter on an enchantment is the design quirk worth pausing on: the effect lives permanently on the battlefield and never commits to combat to do its work. That makes it a combat-math engine rather than a single trick fired and gone. Each activation is cheap enough to fire several times across a turn cycle, so the card converts surplus white mana into a standing threat that lets any attacker or blocker win a fight it should have lost. The structural trade is the per-use cost: the enchantment contributes nothing until you spend mana through it, it taxes a card slot, and it rewards a board already worth augmenting rather than one you still have to build. That pattern was familiar among the enchantment-based combat enablers of its era, where the body of the deck did the attacking and a static piece quietly upgraded every exchange. The ceiling is narrow (first strike, and only first strike), but the floor is durability: opponents cannot blunt it by killing a creature, only by answering the enchantment itself. This is a utility piece for a creature-heavy white deck that wants its combats to stop being symmetrical, and it asks for nothing more glamorous than a steady supply of mana and a board to point it at.