Cactusfolk Sureshot

What the stompy deck has always lacked is a payoff that makes size and speed the same problem for the defender. This solves it as a threat and an anthem at once: a 4/4 body with Reach that also grants trample and haste to your other big creatures at the beginning of combat. Because the grant fires at the start of your combat step, a fresh 4/4 played that turn swings immediately, and everything already on board stops getting chump-blocked into irrelevance. The power-4 threshold is the discipline; it deliberately excludes the mana dorks and token chaff that clog a wide board, asking you to fill the deck with fat instead of numbers. That constraint reshapes what the card rewards: not a board, but a specific kind of board. The self-protection layer matters more than it looks. A combat-step engine is only as good as its ability to survive the removal spell aimed at it during the opponent's turn, and Ward taxes that interaction just enough to make the trade unfavorable. Reach lets it hold ground against fliers on the turns you are not swinging with the team. Put together, this is less a beater than a governor for a stompy board: it decides what your other threats do in combat, and it costs the opponent something real to remove before it does.