Broadside Bombardiers
Boast usually asks a modest price for a modest effect, but here the payment scales the payoff. Sacrificing another creature or artifact does not just fuel the ability, it sets the damage: the burst climbs with the mana value of whatever you feed in, so the same activation that reads as a two-damage ping off a token becomes a lethal bolt when the fodder is a five-drop artifact you no longer need. Because Boast fires only once per turn, the card is not a grinder chewing through a wide board; it is a converter, built to cash one high-value permanent into a single decisive shot of reach. The constraint keeping that in check is the Boast timing itself: the creature must have attacked this turn, so the burst is gated behind committing a 2/2 to combat first. Menace and haste are the enablers, pushing it through blockers the moment it lands and reducing the attack requirement to a formality rather than a genuine risk. Structurally, it fuses a Goblin sacrifice outlet (long a red staple) with a targeted damage source, collapsing two jobs that usually take two cards into one attacker. The version of this card that matters is not the ping off fodder; it is the moment a dying permanent's leftover mana value becomes damage aimed exactly where you need it, ammunition drawn from something that was headed to the graveyard anyway.
