Karplusan Yeti

A pinger that fights instead of poking. The activation deals damage equal to the Yeti's power, but the cost it imposes is symmetrical: whatever you target hits back for its power too, so the Yeti walks away clean only against creatures with two power or less. That is the whole design discipline. This is not a Tim-style repeatable picker that grinds down anything with a soft toughness; it is a brawler that trades into its own weight class. The body matters as much as the ability, because a 3/3 deals exactly three when it taps, which caps the kill range at three toughness. Against tokens, mana dorks, and anything with low power it is a tap-to-kill lever that survives the exchange; against a three-power creature the Yeti takes lethal, though the target only dies if its toughness is three or less. Anything bigger than three toughness shrugs the activation off entirely. The fight-style template predates the keyword by years; Ice Age was working through what a red creature could do off a tap before "fight" had a name, and the answer here is a careful, self-limiting version that never threatens to dominate a board on its own. Five mana for a 3/3 with a conditional removal lever reads slow, but the symmetry is the point: it is removal the opponent gets to price into their own combat math, paid for with the Yeti's own three toughness.