Ember Beast

Three power and four toughness for three mana is a body that should price itself out of any aggressive red deck's reach, and the restriction is the bill: it can't attack or block alone. Red rarely buys a stat line this clean without paying somewhere, and here the payment is a tempo tax that punishes exactly the deck most likely to want a 3/4 for three. A go-wide aggressive shell shrugs it off, since something is always swinging alongside it, but the same beast clogs a topdeck war or a stalled board where it's the only thing left standing. The design pins down a specific tension: the developers wanted to hand red an above-rate beater without handing it a card that wins the long grind alone, so they gated the body behind the requirement that it never operate solo. It's the inverse of an evasive creature, which wants to attack by itself; this one is built to be the second name on the attack step, a reinforcement rather than a spearhead. The effect reads as a downside, but in a deck that flows wide it functions closer to free stats, which is precisely the kind of conditional rate that rewards committing to a plan instead of hedging.