Besmirch

Threaten effects have always run on a simple promise: borrow a creature, swing with it, hand it back inert. This one rewrites the back half of that deal. The classic version returns the creature with no strings attached; the goad clause attaches a leash that outlasts the theft itself, forcing that creature to attack on its controller's next turn and to point those swings at someone other than you. The untap is the connective tissue: it turns a tapped blocker or a creature that already attacked into a fresh weapon, then sends it home obligated to keep fighting. The result is a borrow that bills the original owner twice, once when you turn their threat against them and again when they get it back encumbered. The steal-and-sacrifice line works here as it does on any borrow effect (the creature is yours to sacrifice while you control it, which simply makes the goad moot), but that is not where this card spends its design budget. What it keeps that other Threatens lack is the goad, an effect built for tables with more than two seats, where redirecting a creature's combat at a rival is standing political leverage that persists past the turn you cast it. That orientation is the whole point. It takes a duel-era staple and re-pitches it for a board where the creature you borrow has somewhere else to be aimed.