Goblin Chainwhirler
The triple-red pip is the whole point. A 3/3 first striker that flicks a point of damage across every creature and planeswalker an opponent controls, plus the opponents themselves, is a generically strong rate; the cost is that you cannot play it honestly outside a heavy red deck. That single sweep is asymmetrical in a way few one-sided wraths manage: it leaves your board untouched while clipping the mana dorks, one-drops, and token swarms an opponent leans on, and the first strike means the body that delivered the sweep keeps trading up afterward. It hits the exact strategies built on one-toughness bodies, which is most of what aggro and go-wide does, and it does that work on entry, no attack step or waiting required. The design tension is real: the goal was a red anti-aggro tool that wasn't a dead card against control, so the X-for-one got stapled to a creature that still pressures and still blocks. The is the tax that keeps it out of two-color piles and rewards committing to mono-red, which is precisely where a card that hates on small creatures belongs. It stands as one of the cleaner expressions of the principle that color commitment, not raw mana value, can be the cost a powerful effect pays.
