Frontline Rebel

A 3/3 for three is a perfectly ordinary body in red, the kind of curve filler that asks nothing of you and gives nothing back. The forced-attack clause is what makes the card a design statement rather than a stat line: it does not change the rate, it changes the contract. You are not paying for the stats with a drawback; the stats are free. What the clause does is strip away your option to play defense, and the whole question of whether that matters lives entirely in your deck's intentions. Red has built around compulsive aggression since the earliest beaters that simply had to swing, and the trade is always the same: a body that is correctly costed, with a clause that punishes you only when you wish you could stop. In a deck pointed forward, the restriction never triggers; you were sending the creature in anyway, and the line on the card is invisible. The friction surfaces the moment the board stalls, an opponent leaves up a blocker that trades up, or you would rather hold it back to guard a planeswalker, because the card will not let you. That is the entire negotiation: not stats for a downside, but a free creature whose price is your judgment in the combat step. It rewards the deckbuilder who has already committed to tempo and quietly taxes the one hoping to keep options open, which makes it a clean test of whether a deck means to attack.