Rhox Bodyguard

Exalted was the keyword that asked you to attack with one creature instead of swarming, and the cards built to carry it had to justify a strategy that runs counter to how green-white usually wins. This one pays its rent twice: a three-life gain on entry that buys time for the single-attacker plan to come together, and the exalted trigger itself, which turns a lone attacker into a slightly larger threat. The body is the tell. A 2/3 is not a creature you want swinging alone; it is a creature you want sitting back, holding the ground while something else carries the exalted bonuses into the red zone. That split (a defensive frame stapled to an offensive keyword) is the design tension at the heart of the whole exalted archetype, which never quite resolved the question of why you would build a deck to attack with one creature when attacking with several is usually better. The life gain is the part that ages best: incidental lifegain on a blocker that also feeds a tall-creature plan is a reasonable floor regardless of whether the exalted line ever comes together. Read as a curve filler for a deck built around a single evasive threat, it does its job; read as a standalone payoff, it is a reminder that exalted's reward was always thinner than the keyword count on a card suggested.