Kor Hookmaster

The enters-the-battlefield trigger here buys exactly one turn of tempo, and the design is honest about it: tap one of your opponent's creatures and keep it down through their next untap step. That is the Frost Lynx effect stapled to a body, the Icy Manipulator trick distilled into a one-shot that arrives with the creature rather than asking you to hold up mana for it. The math is simple. As it resolves, you remove a blocker and earn a free swing while the tapped creature sits out the next combat. The 2/2 frame is the rest of the deal: a body that pushes through the gap it just opened, then keeps attacking once it has done its work. The trigger reads sharper than a one-turn delay suggests because it functions as soft removal against the opponent's defensive plan without ever touching the card itself: nothing dies, nothing returns, you simply rent a window. White aggressive tempo at its most legible, an effect that looks minor in a vacuum and compounds across a curve built to press an advantage. No counter, no recursion, no second use; the whole exchange is front-loaded into the moment it enters, which is precisely why it wants a deck already racing.