Savage Smash

The +2/+2 is what most Gruul fight spells have always lacked. Ordinary fight cards ask your creature to survive on its printed toughness, which prices removal by trading two bodies as often as one. Bolting the pump onto the fight resolves that math: the +2 toughness lets a creature eat something it would otherwise trade with, and the +2 power turns a middling body into one large enough to kill a genuine threat. Because the buff and the fight resolve together on a single spell, the opponent gets no window to respond between the two effects, no chance to remove your creature in reply to a pump. The cost of that reliability is the constraint the whole fight family shares: you need a creature already on the battlefield, so this does nothing against an empty board and folds to a well-timed removal spell cast in response to the cast. A one-card exchange that reads like a combat trick and functions like removal, it gives beatdown decks a way to punch through a blocker without holding up mana for an instant.