Tresserhorn Skyknight

A 5/3 flyer at this price is paying a tax most evasive beaters never face, and the second line of text explains it: the body that would otherwise fold to first strike has been hardened against exactly that. The fragile three toughness is the whole tension. A 5/3 trades down to a first striker dealing three or more in normal combat math, but here that exchange is simply deleted, so the Zombie Knight pushes through chump blocks and lives the swing back. That makes the damage-prevention clause a piece of defensive design grafted onto an offensive frame, narrowing the worst-case block while leaving the toughness exposed to everything else. It reads as a developer's attempt to give an unwieldy seven-drop a niche that justifies the cost, a flyer specifically calibrated not to die to the cheap first-strikers that punish glass-cannon attackers. The rate looks bloated until you remember what the second ability is buying out of: a category of bad combat, rather than a general boost in stats.