Laccolith Titan

The whole Laccolith cycle ran on one conceit: a creature that converts its swing into burn the moment it gets blocked. This 6/6 caps that curve, turning a chump block into six points aimed at whatever creature the attacker chooses. The mechanic rewires defensive math entirely. Normally a blocker's job is to trade or to soak: throw a body in the way, eat the damage, keep your life total intact. Here the block is the trigger. Declaring a defender hands the attacker the option to redirect, dropping the damage on a creature of the attacker's choosing instead of dumping it into the wall. The price is built into the ability: redirect and the Titan assigns no combat damage, so each block becomes a choice between trading normally with the blocker and spending the swing to kill a different creature outright. The Titan has no trample and only triggers when blocked, so neither line touches the defending player; this is purely a tool for clearing the board, not for closing the game. The trigger fires once when blockers are declared, no matter how many bodies gang up, and resolves as a single instance of redirected damage. The wrinkle is timing. Because this is a "becomes blocked" ability rather than literal combat damage, it goes on the stack and can be answered before a single point lands, giving an opponent a window to save the targeted creature or fizzle the redirect. A clean artifact of an early era when Wizards was still mapping the overlap between creatures and direct damage, back when that territory was wider open than the later keyword toolbox left it.