Inescapable Brute

Two abilities that look like a mismatch until you stack them. The "must be blocked if able" clause is a lure: it strips the defender of the choice to let the attacker through, forcing at least one creature into the way. On its own that is a familiar trick, usually bolted onto a body fat enough to survive the gang-block it provokes. This one is a 3/3, so it dies to almost anything it crashes into. Wither inverts the math. Whatever the defender is compelled to throw in front of it walks away wearing -1/-1 counters that never wear off, permanently shrinking the creature they were forced to commit. The Brute is engineered to extract that exchange every turn: the defender cannot decline the block and cannot fully recover the blocker afterward. Even when the 3/3 dies in the trade, it has done its work, because the body it forced into combat is smaller forever. That is why the modest frame is the point rather than a liability. You are happy to ram this into a wall, because the wall is worse off whether or not the Brute lives. What the card demonstrates is how wither rewrites combat arithmetic: a creature that loses nearly every fight on raw stats becomes a tool for permanently grinding down the blocks it conscripts.