Goblin Glory Chaser

The renown mechanic was built to reward connecting in combat, and this Goblin shows the cleanest version of why that reward had teeth. A vanilla one-drop that trades down or chumps for nothing is a known quantity; this one offers a deal: get through once, and the body grows while picking up menace, which makes the second hit harder to stop than the first. The structure is self-accelerating in a way few one-mana creatures are, because the very damage that triggers renown also installs the keyword that protects future damage. Menace is the right evasion to bolt onto a renown payoff, too: it does not promise the hit (two blockers still answer it), it just taxes the defender for the right to trade, which keeps the creature aggressive without making it unblockable. The catch is that all of this is contingent on landing the first swing, and a 1/1 with no inherent evasion has to find that window early or never get going. That contingency is the honest cost of the design: renown asks you to commit a body to the red zone before it has earned anything, and rewards you only if the board lets it through. As a piece of an aggressive curve it is doing exactly what the mechanic was meant to do, turning early initiative into a compounding threat rather than a flat one.