Cyclops Gladiator

The triple-red cost is the first tell: this is a beater built for a board you already own in red, and it makes a demand of you every turn it swings. Most aggressive four-drops just hit. This one converts each attack into a fight on the offense's terms, throwing four damage at any creature the defender controls and taking that creature's power back in return. The structure borrows the old fight template but reframes it as repeatable, attack-triggered removal: it can clear a blocker before combat damage even matters, then keep swinging. The catch is that the trade runs both directions and runs again next combat. Point it at something that hits for four or more and you lose the Cyclops outright; point it at a smaller creature and you blow it up while surviving, but you have signed your attacker up for combat math every turn rather than just racing. A body that wants to attack, paired with a trigger that punishes attacking into anything its own size: that tension is the whole reason this plays differently from a clean 4/4. It thrives against a board of small creatures and tokens it can pick apart one by one, and it stalls against a single fat blocker that out-trades it. The optional "you may" is the release valve: when the math turns against you, decline the fight and swing as a vanilla 4/4.