Outrider of Jhess

A common-rarity carrier for a keyword that asks the deck to do the one thing most aggressive boards resist: attack with a single creature at a time. Exalted stacks across every source you control, so a row of these wants to send one threat into the red zone and pile the whole team's bonuses onto that lone attacker. The friction is structural. The keyword rewards a play pattern (swing alone, build around one evasive beater) that runs against the go-wide instinct of a tribe-and-tokens shell, and a 2/2 for four mana does nothing on its own when it stays home: the body is plentiful filler whose only job is to multiply the trigger, not a threat that stands on its rate. That trade is the entire pitch of this slot in the exalted cycle. It does its best work behind a single hexproof or unblockable carrier, where two or three stacked boosts turn a small evasive creature into a real clock. It does its worst work in the mirror of two wide boards staring each other down, where exalted is a purely offensive trigger that contributes nothing on defense, and a deck full of 2/2s that only grow when one of them attacks has no way to break a stalemate it cannot profitably swing into.