Frenzied Goblin
A red one-drop earns its slot in aggressive decks by connecting every turn, and this little Berserker is built to remove the reason it might not. The attack trigger sinks a single leftover red into pointed evasion: each time it attacks you pay to keep the most threatening defender from blocking, so the goblin's own 1/1 frame matters less than the lane it clears for everything swinging beside it. The timing carries the design. Because the trigger goes on the stack during the declare attackers step, before the defending player ever declares blockers, paying the mana does not bait a bad block; it pulls a creature out of the math before that decision exists, and the chosen blocker simply sits home with no say. That preemptive window distinguishes the effect from a combat pump or a removal spell that costs a real card. It draws nothing, grows nothing, and the toll is fixed at one mana for one blocker each time it attacks rather than a scalable sink for a flooded hand. What it offers is a recurring nudge: the same small payment every combat to make sure the attack lands where it hurts most.

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- Foundations#199
- Ravnica: Clue Edition#135
- Jumpstart 2022#536
- GRN Guild Kit#81
- Masters 25#131
- Magic Online Promos#55703
- Friday Night Magic 2015#1
- Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning#2









