Earthshaker Khenra

Aggressive red has always leaked tempo at the same seam: the cheap hasty threat gets in for a few points, trades into a blocker, and the card is spent right as the board stalls and the hand empties. This Jackal closes that leak by living twice. The first cast is a clean tempo play, a 2/1 that hits the turn it lands and strips a small blocker out of the way so the swing connects. Eternalize then buys the spent threat back as a much larger Zombie running the same evasion trick at a higher power threshold, so the recurred copy clears the kind of midrange blocker the original could never get past. The "can't block" clause is the quiet engine here, because it keys off the creature's own power: cheap on the small body, genuinely punishing on the eternalized one. The design insight is stapling a late-game payoff to an early-game body, so a single card answers both halves of red's classic problem: how to apply pressure early and how to keep applying it once the curve runs out. It is also one of the rare two-drops content to be killed, since the graveyard is where its better half waits. A removal spell trades down against a threat that simply returns, swinging for twice as much and dragging another blocker out of the way when it does.