Anzrag, the Quake-Mole

The trick isn't the 8/4 body: it's the loop that body invites. Anzrag turns the act of being blocked into a reward, untapping your whole team and handing you a fresh combat phase every time the opponent commits a chump. Left alone, that's a strong tempo swing. Pair it with the activated ability, which forces the opponent to block every combat if able, and you have manufactured the exact condition that triggers Anzrag in the first place. Each forced block untaps your attackers and spawns another combat; each new combat forces another block, and the engine feeds itself. The self-enforcing loop is what separates this from every other big red-green beater that just hits hard once: most creatures rely on their controller drawing a separate extra-combat effect, while Anzrag both demands the block and rewards it. The counterplay is real and worth naming. The ability only compels a block "if able," so a board with no legal blockers ends the chain immediately, and the opponent gets a full window between combats to cast removal at the god itself. That 4 toughness means the whole loop folds to a lot of cheap answers. That fragility is the price for a repeatable extra-combat engine on a four-mana frame. Most extra-combat effects live in dedicated spells (Aggravated Assault and its kin); folding one onto a creature that also enforces its own trigger condition is the design ambition here, and it lands as a build-around rather than a curve-out.