Goblin Clearcutter
Burning your own land for mana is a Gruul idea older than the term Gruul, and this Goblin sells it through the bluntest possible engine: tap, feed a Forest into the woodchipper, get three back. The exchange is a net positive on mana but a permanent negative on board, which is exactly why it never functions as a clean accelerant. You are not ramping so much as cashing in your manabase for one explosive turn, then living with a thinner board for the rest of the game. What makes the design quietly two-colored despite the mono-red identity is the conversion itself: the ability demands a Forest you must already control and pays out in and
, so a red-only card is built to live in a deck running green lands and green payoffs. It sits at the seam, turning fixed land into floating color faster than you can replace it, while also doubling as a sacrifice outlet that drops a Forest into the yard for anything that cares. The body carrying all of this is plain. As a build-around it asks decks to treat their own lands as ammunition: a one-shot mana spike with a clock attached, the kind of explosive shell that wants a big turn more than a stable one.
