Whiskervale Forerunner

Valiant is a keyword built to reward a deck that pokes its own creatures with buffs and combat tricks, and this is the payoff that turns that poke into card advantage. The trigger fires once per turn, on the first spell or ability you aim at it, so the design asks you to sequence your targeting rather than dump three pumps on one turn. What it does with that window is the interesting part: a dig five deep for a small creature, with a fork baked in. On your own turn, the creature you find hits the battlefield free; on an opponent's turn (say you targeted it with an instant-speed trick to survive combat) the same creature only goes to hand. That asymmetry quietly pushes you toward proactive, sorcery-speed enablers and toward a curve packed with three-mana-or-less bodies worth cheating in. The 3/4 frame matters too: it wants to attack into the valiant trigger and survive the block, not chump and die before the payoff resolves. The mana-value-three ceiling is the discipline that keeps it honest, capping how much a single trigger can swing while still reaching most of the utility creatures a go-wide white deck runs. It is less a bomb than an engine that compounds: every point of tempo you spend targeting it buys back a body, so the deck that runs it is really a deck built to keep the triggers coming.