Goblin Grenadiers
Removal disguised as a creature, with a payment structure that has aged into a relic. The body is just a delivery vehicle: connect with the attack, find no blocker in the way, then trade the goblin itself for a two-for-one that takes a creature and a land off the board. That sacrifice is the whole design discipline. The card never gets to point at anything until it has attacked and gone unblocked, which means the opponent always has a turn of warning and a clean answer (just throw a chump in front of it). It is removal gated behind a successful attack, the kind of conditional payoff that early sets leaned on before instant-speed shock effects made unconditional answers the baseline. The land destruction is the genuinely unusual rider; pairing creature removal with a Stone Rain effect on a single card was an aggressive bit of value for its era, and it explains why the trigger demands so much setup to fire. Read it as a snapshot of how Weatherlight-era red thought about parity: you could blow up two permanents at once, but only if you committed a body, swung it into the red zone, and let the defender decide whether to let it through.
