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Goatnapper

Creature — Goblin Rogue2 generic manaRed mana

This is the rare creature whose entire enters-the-battlefield trigger fires blanks unless a Goat is on the battlefield somewhere. It belongs to a thin design lineage of cards that legislate against an absurdly specific subtype, written deliberately tongue-in-cheek: the joke is that the ability is real, mechanically functional, and almost never live. The body is unremarkable and the trigger asks for a board state that exists in roughly no games, so the card functions less as a playable and more as a punchline that happens to obey the comprehensive rules. When the conditions do align (a clash of Goat-heavy boards, or a deck assembled expressly to make the steal happen), the effect is genuinely strong: untap a Goat, take it for the turn with haste, swing or sacrifice it before it returns. That alignment is the entire wager. Strip away the Goat clause and you have a worse version of the standard "steal a creature until end of turn" template; bolt the Goat clause back on and you have a design that exists primarily to be funny in a vacuum and brutal in the one matchup nobody plans for. It is a monument to a kind of tribal-design whimsy that does not survive playtesting on rate alone, which is precisely why it had to be built as a gag.

Goatnapper (lrw)
LRW · #172uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $2.99
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, untap target Goat and gain control of it until end of turn. It gains haste until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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