Stoic Champion

Cycling was Onslaught block's defining mechanic, and this is the payoff card that turns a card-smoothing keyword into an aggressive engine. Each cycle anywhere at the table, yours or an opponent's, swells this Soldier by two in both directions until end of turn, which means a deck stuffed with cyclers can present a 2/2 that swings as a 4/4 or larger on the turns it matters and shrinks back to a body that trades down when it does not. The design tension is the until-end-of-turn clamp: the pumps are explosive but ephemeral, so the card rewards stacking cycling triggers into a single attack rather than nickel-and-diming damage across a game. Note that the trigger watches every player, so an opponent's cycling feeds your clock too, an unusual generosity that pushes the card toward decks built to convert tempo into damage before that symmetry can hurt them. It sits alongside the rest of the cycling-matters payoffs from its era (Astral Slide and Lightning Rift cared about the same trigger from a control angle), but this one is the beatdown answer: a white two-drop whose ceiling is dictated entirely by how many cards your deck is willing to throw away for selection.