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Girder Goons

Creature — Ogre Warrior4 generic manaBlack mana

Blitz was built to reward creatures with dies triggers, and this one is engineered so the keyword's cost stops being a cost at all. Cast for full price at five mana, the 4/4 leaves a tapped 2/2 Rogue behind when it dies, so the body is really two bodies spread across a couple of turns. Cast for its blitz cost, the arithmetic tilts: blitz staples on haste and a card-draw death trigger, and the printed Rogue-token trigger is already there. The elegant part is what happens at the sacrifice clause. Blitz normally taxes you a permanent in exchange for tempo, forcing you to give up the creature at the next end step. But here that mandatory sacrifice is precisely the death the card was built to reward. When the Goons dies (whether to that sacrifice, to combat, or to removal), both dies triggers fire: you draw a card and you make the Rogue. The keyword's supposed downside is the exact event the card cashes in on. The token arriving tapped is the ceiling the design keeps in place; it stops a blitzed copy from immediately pressuring the board twice over, so the reward stays a delayed one rather than a free repeatable engine. It is a compact case study in reading a keyword against a card's own text: two triggers stacked on a single death, with the sacrifice serving as the trigger rather than the tax.

Girder Goons (snc)
SNC · #80common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.18
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature dies, create a tapped 2/2 black Rogue creature token. Blitz 3 generic manaBlack mana (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)
Legalities

Format Status

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