Headstrong Brute

A 3/3 for three that surrenders its blocking step is a familiar bargain: red has long traded defense for an aggressive body, and the clause that keeps this one out of combat on defense is the price you pay for the rate. The conditional menace is the actual hook, and it is a teaching card for how tribal payoffs get tuned. The evasion is contingent on a second Pirate sitting on the board, which means the ceiling is wired to a developed tribal shell rather than to the creature's own line. Drop it onto an empty battlefield and you have a body that swings for three but cannot hold the fort; pair it with any other Pirate and the can't-block clause stops mattering, because a hard-to-block attacker that wants to be swinging every turn was never going to sit back and defend anyway. That alignment is the design at work: the drawback and the payoff push the same direction, so the card only feels bad in exactly the situation (no other Pirates) where you also have no reason to want the menace in the first place. It is uncomplicated common-rarity tribal glue, built to reward committing to a creature type rather than to headline a deck on its own merits.