Agitator Ant

Multiplayer politics as a repeatable engine. Goad, on its own, is a tempo tool: you point one creature away from you for a single turn and hope the deflection lands. This insect converts that one-shot nudge into a standing bribe. Each of your end steps reopens the offer (so it fires the very turn it hits the table, before you ever untap with it), and every player, including you, gets the same genuinely good deal: two +1/+1 counters, permanently, on a creature they control. Those counters double as the marker for the goad, so accepting the growth commits that creature to swing at someone other than the ant's controller. The card does not compel the table into war; it makes war the rational choice, table-wide, on a loop. That is a different lever than a targeted, mana-taxed goad that picks one victim: here the incentive is offered to everyone and paid by everyone, and because opponents must send a goaded creature at another player whenever able, the accumulating beatdown gets steered toward your rivals. The offer bends in one direction only: grow your own board and those creatures are goaded too, forced outward at opponents rather than held back for defense. The 2/2 body is almost incidental; the ant is a permission machine that reads as a gift and functions as a redirection. Its risk is a table that has learned to grow the wrong creature: a shared threat, or the board best positioned to come back once the goad wears off. But the counters-plus-goad packaging is tuned so the greedy line and the aggressive line are the same line.