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Cheering Fanatic

Creature — Goblin1 generic manaRed mana

The cost-reduction trigger here is built for a very specific kind of table: one where everybody is casting overlapping spells, and naming a card means cheapening it for whoever holds copies, not just for you. That makes it less a tool than a negotiation. The reduction applies to spells with the chosen name no matter who controls them, so a Goblin that swings in and names a removal spell or a counterspell can hand an ally a discount, a sweetener thrown across the table to grease an alliance. As a pure beater it is unremarkable, but the design is doing something most cost-reducers refuse to do: it deliberately leaks value outward. Where the typical mana-discount creature is a selfish engine (you reduce, you cast, you profit), this one only pays off when it shapes what other players do with their turn, naming the card you want to see resolve and making it that much easier for the person who can resolve it. The trigger fires on attack, so the timing is fixed to combat and the reduction lasts only the turn, which keeps it from snowballing into a free spell every upkeep. It is a multiplayer political knob dressed as a 2/2 Goblin: small body, narrow window, but a genuine lever for anyone who wants to buy goodwill in the currency of mana.

Cheering Fanatic (plst)
PLST · #BBD-58uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks, choose a card name. Spells with the chosen name cost 1 generic mana less to cast this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

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