Seasoned Marshal

An attack trigger that taps a blocker before blocks are declared: the design turns a modest 2/2 body into a recurring source of evasion for the whole team. The trick is timing. The tap resolves on the attack trigger, well before the defending player declares blocks, so the targeted creature is already tapped and ineligible to block when the question gets asked. One swing removes one would-be blocker every combat, which means a stalled board tilts in the aggressor's favor a little more each turn the card survives. This is the white-weenie expression of an idea other colors handled with one-shot effects: keep the defense off balance, then push the rest of the army through, except here the disruption recurs for free with every attack. It first appeared in a beginner-focused product where the soldier-and-keyword vocabulary was intentionally pared down, part of why the effect reads so clean. The body never threatens much on its own, and that is the point of the rate: you are paying four mana for the trigger, not the stats, and the trigger compounds with each additional attacker the way few creatures of its era did.