Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer
Goad had always been a subtractive tool: you shove someone else's board toward your other opponents and hope the redirected violence keeps the pressure off you. This Elf Shaman turns that redirected violence into a resource. With power 2, the goad threshold sits low, so nearly every mana dork, token, and utility creature the table can muster is compelled to swing at somebody other than you, and every forced attacker that dies feeds you a Treasure. That is the pivot in how the card is built. Ordinary goad is a defensive smokescreen; here the smokescreen pays rent, converting other players' combat losses into acceleration and mana fixing you never had to attack for yourself. The 5 toughness does its own quieter work, keeping a mono-red politics engine hard to punch through in combat so the goad blanket stays up rather than collapsing the first time someone swings at Baeloth. As a Background-choosing commander, it sits inside the two-commander framework that lets a mono-red piece borrow a partner's identity without committing to a full second color. The result weaponizes the table's own defensive instincts: the player receiving goaded attackers cannot profitably block them without handing you a Treasure off the trade, and every death down the chain feeds your acceleration while your opponents grind each other down.

