Pride Guardian

A wall that pays you back every time it does its job. The 0/3 body parks in front of an attacker, and the trigger turns each block into a three-life swing, which over a long game stacks faster than most lifegain rates a one-drop has any business posting. The design tension is in how it earns that life: not on entering, not on a tap, but on the act of blocking, which means the payout is gated entirely behind the opponent's choice to attack. That is the leash, and it is a clever one. A patient defensive deck can sit behind it and bank life on the opponent's terms, daring them to keep swinging into a wall that profits from the exchange, or to hold back and let the board stall. The defender clause is the other half of the fairness: it never threatens to convert that toughness into offense, so the lifegain stays purely reactive, tethered to combat the opponent chooses to start. It belongs to the small family of lifegain blockers built for soft-lock and pillow-fort shells, where the goal is to clog the board and feed a payoff that cares about life total or about repeated lifegain triggers. On its own it does the unglamorous work of buying turns; the value lives in what the gained life is feeding, not in the cat that gains it.