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Goblin Javelineer

Creature — Goblin WarriorRed mana

Most one-drop bodies with a ping attached point the damage outward on a tap ability: Prodigal Sorcerer and its many descendants sit back and shoot at whatever they like. This one flips the geometry, tying the trigger to being blocked rather than to a chosen target. That makes it a tax on the defender: engage this attacker and the wall takes a point, so the interaction only pays out when the opponent commits a creature to combat. Against a board of 1-toughness blockers the math bends hard toward the attacker, since a chump that steps in front gets shot before combat damage and dies for nothing. The haste completes the design, giving it a first-strike-adjacent deterrent that arrives ready to swing the turn it lands, so the pressure to find a good block (and the cost of finding a bad one) shows up immediately. It is a small, honest piece of aggressive-red engineering, the kind of common that quietly forces a defender into worse combat math than they expected.

Goblin Javelineer (afr)
AFR · #318common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
Foil: $0.17
Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it deals 1 damage to target creature blocking it.
Legalities

Format Status

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