Valiant Guard
A wall in everything but type line. The 0/3 body for a single white mana is the classic defensive rate: enough toughness to brick early aggression, no power to threaten back. What separates it from the long line of literal Walls is that it can attack at all, which matters less for its own offense than for the chance to crew, convoke, or otherwise tap toward a board state where a 0/3 wants to be doing something other than sitting still. The design is a common-rarity speed bump for white aggro and defensive shells, the kind of card built to give a low curve a body that survives the first few turns without trading down. It does the job early-era one-drops were handed: cheap enough to play off the top, sturdy enough to stop a 2/2, and largely irrelevant once the game opens up past the early turns. Honest filler, the kind of body a deck slots in rather than builds around, and the better for being plain about it.
