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Goblin Champion

Creature — Goblin WarriorRed mana

Exalted has almost always lived in white and its allied colors: a defensive, Bant-flavored keyword that rewards the lone attacker, worn by cards like Sublime Archangel and Rafiq of the Many. Handing it to a one-mana Goblin inverts the whole texture of the mechanic. The 0/1 body is the tell: this is not a creature that wants to swing on its own, but one that hangs back and lets its exalted trigger fire on whichever attacker goes in solo. Stack a few, and a single evasive threat picks up +1/+1 from every Champion the turn it attacks alone, while the Champions themselves stay home. The haste is the color-pie signature that overrides the body: it lets the Goblin commit the moment it lands, becoming the lone attacker on the turn it enters instead of durdling behind a wall, an aggression the white originals never had. The deeper friction is deliberate: exalted only triggers when a creature attacks alone, which is directly opposed to how a Goblin deck usually wants to attack (wide, all at once). That contradiction is the design puzzle. It is a Goblin that punishes you for playing Goblins normally, an aggressive tribe's keyword smuggled in from the pacifist end of the color pie, asking you to build a swarm that agrees, sometimes, to send just one.

Goblin Champion (mh1)
MH1 · #127common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Legalities

Format Status

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