Iizuka the Ruthless

Bushido and double strike pull against each other, and Iizuka the Ruthless is built to exploit the seam. Bushido rewards committing creatures to combat and grinding through blockers; double strike rewards already-large attackers connecting once. This card wants both at once, and the Samurai it eats to grant the survivors double strike are the same ones that built the board it now wants to swing for lethal. The math is unforgiving in the right way: a Bushido creature that has already blocked or become blocked, then gained double strike, doubles the inflated number, so the sacrifice asks you to weigh a body still on the table against a finishing turn that may not need it. As a tribal payoff, it scales with how wide you go rather than how tall, since every spare Samurai is potential damage rather than just another beater. The 3/3 frame with Bushido 2 is deliberately modest: this is not a card meant to win by attrition but to convert a stalled Samurai assembly into one decisive alpha strike. The self-cannibalizing cost is the discipline that keeps the burst from being free; you cannot double everyone's damage without thinning the very board doing the work. The ruthlessness in the name is mechanical, not flavor: the card is at its best the moment it asks you to throw away the creatures that got you here.