Boiling Blood

Goad before goad had a name, bolted onto a cantrip so the trick never costs you a card. The mechanical job is small and specific: force one creature to attack, then replace the spell by drawing. In an era when most red instants pointed damage at a target, this one rewrote the combat step instead, turning a defending blocker into an attacker who has to leave home undefended, or pulling a creature into a swing it cannot survive. The draw clause keeps the spell from being a blank: a pure compulsion effect at this cost would rot in hand whenever the opponent had nothing worth provoking, so the cantrip ensures it is always at least a tempo question rather than a dead card. It is a primitive sketch of an idea Wizards would return to and formalize decades later: telling an opponent's creature what to do, instead of removing it. The forced-attack template here is narrower than modern goad, which carries a "must attack a player other than you" rider; this one says only "this turn if able," a first pass at a mechanic the design team had not yet finished thinking through.