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Blisterstick Shaman

Creature — Goblin Shaman2 generic manaRed mana

The pinger packaged as a body. The enters-the-battlefield ping is one of red's oldest support effects, the cheap shot that clears a one-toughness blocker, finishes off a chump, or sends a final point at a face already in burn range. What this Goblin does is staple that effect to a 2/1 that pushes its own damage, so the trigger is a free toll collected on the way to deploying a beater rather than a card spent on its own. The math is the design's whole engine: a 2/1 for three mana is below rate as a vanilla creature, but the point of damage and the willing-attacker body together close the gap. The value lives entirely in arrival, not departure, and that orientation is what makes the card more than a one-shot shock. Because the trigger fires when it enters rather than when it dies, the reward is in re-deployment: a blink or bounce effect that returns it to the battlefield re-fires that single point every time, and recursion turns one creature into a slow stream of pings. That places it squarely in red's tradition of small Goblin Shamans built to be deployed cheaply and often, where the payoff was always in repetition and the sheer number of times you could land the body again.

Blisterstick Shaman (mbs)
MBS · #58common
Pricing
Normal: $0.03
Foil: $0.27
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, it deals 1 damage to any target.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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