Firefist Striker

The third body in an alpha strike, not the first. The battalion trigger fires only once you have already committed three attackers, and its payoff is narrow and precise: it strips a single blocker out of combat, no more. That one restriction shapes everything about how the card plays. It does not make anything unblockable and it does not guarantee the team connects; against a defender with multiple blockers or an instant-speed answer, the combat math is still there to be done. What it does is remove the one creature you least want to see holding the line: the lone wall in front of your best attacker, the sole blocker on a stalled board, the flier that would trade up. Because the ability rides along with an attack you were making anyway, it costs nothing beyond bodies already on offense, which is exactly why it belongs to aggressive decks and no one else. A deck that has flooded the board barely notices the three-attacker tax; a grindy or defensive deck never reads the back half of the card. The 2/1 frame is fragile and expendable, the kind of small threat that expects to be swinging into a crowd. Its lineage is the family of aggressive commons and uncommons that turn a full board into forced damage by peeling away one key defender at a time, letting the swarm push through the gap that opens rather than around it.