Krosan Vorine
Provoke is a fight spell welded to a creature, and the second line on this cat is what keeps the fight a clean duel. Provoke drags exactly the blocker the attacker wants into combat, untapping it and forcing it to block; the "can't be blocked by more than one creature" clause then forecloses the gang-block, so the one-on-one the attacker engineered stays one-on-one. What that clause does not do is fix the size problem. The 3/2 frame keeps the price honest, but it also means the pilot is still doing the threat math: provoke something bigger and the cat simply trades down or dies. The real tension is that provoke promises tempo and removal in a single attack, yet only delivers when the body survives the exchange it forces, and that judgment lives entirely on the attacker's side of the table. The instruction is to pick the creature you can actually beat, not the one you most want dead. The anti-gang clause is what lets that play repeat: the cat can keep swinging into a developed board, peeling off one defender per combat rather than running headlong into a wall of chump blockers. Earlier provokers without that line were easy to neutralize by stacking blockers on the dragged-out attacker; this one trades raw size for the guarantee that it gets to choose its fight one creature at a time.


