And to the designers credit, the Endless Punishment precon is pretty much that deck
If Bruse Tarl leaves the battlefield after other Oxen you control have dealt first-strike damage but before regular combat damage, those Oxen won't deal regular combat damage (unless they still have double strike for some other reason)
Losing a creature a turn is a hard pill for an opponent to swallow, especially once it costs you no investment past the initial one mana and one card
According to official ruling 702.19: The ability has no effect when a creature with trample is blocking or is dealing noncombat damage
Belle & Beast Certain as the Sun and Lilo & Stitch Fun-Loving Friends are the two Cinemayhem Iconics, dual ink cards with picture-in-picture artwork styled like vintage movie posters, sitting in the Secret range above the numbered set at the hardest pull rate in the product
When the next restricted list announcement rolled around, a pretty unheard of number of cards were simultaneously added to the Vintage Restricted List: Crop Rotation Doomsday Dream Halls Enlightened Tutor Frantic Search Grim Monolith Hurkyls Recall Lotus Petal Mana Crypt Mana Vault Mind Over Matter Mox Diamond Mystical Tutor Tinker Vampiric Tutor Voltaic Key Yawgmoths Bargain Yawgmoths Will This list included most of my deck (every card but Force of Will, Defense Grid, and City of Brass would end up restricted at some point), as well as lots of other cards that were part of other broken decks that were feared to be the next to rise up
