Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs

A Propaganda effect that fights back. The classic deterrent tax (No Mercy, Ghostly Prison, the Sphere effects) makes attacking expensive and stops there; this one reroutes the toll. Every creature that comes at you either costs its controller three mana to swing or hands you a 3/3 Ogre, and unlike a flat tax those tokens accumulate into a standing army that can turn around and attack on your own turn. The trigger fires for each individual attacker as it is declared, so a wide assault forces the question one creature at a time: a six-attacker swing is six separate decisions to pay or feed you another Ogre, and an opponent rarely has eighteen mana lying around to keep the board clear. That is the design tension worth noticing: a defensive tax that is also a token engine, where the opponent chooses which way it hurts them and neither answer is good. The payment scales poorly across a developed board, which is why the ability reads as punishment rather than a gate; it does not say "you may not attack," it says "attack and watch me build the wall that beats you." The 5/4 body matters too, large enough to brawl with most of what triggers it and to close once the Ogres have done their work. As a red commander it inverts the color's usual posture, asking you to sit back and dare the table to come in.