Goblin Sharpshooter

The untap-on-death trigger turns a 1/1 pinger into a machine gun, but the very mechanism that makes it sing also makes it dangerous to its own side. Because every creature death (yours, theirs, anyone's) resets the tap, a single sacrifice outlet plus a recurring body becomes infinite damage: feed creatures to the altar, untap, ping, repeat. The classic loop pairs it with a free sacrifice effect and a creature that returns or replaces itself, and suddenly the board, the players, and any planeswalker are all on a clock measured in seconds. Even without a combo, it scales with attrition: a grindy board stall where small creatures trade is exactly the environment where this thing untaps three and four times a turn, sweeping x/1 tokens and snuffing mana dorks at instant speed. The deliberate downside (it never untaps on its own) is what keeps the rate honest, forcing the deck to manufacture deaths rather than simply leaving the ability open every turn. That constraint is also the engine's tell: it does not want a clean board, it wants a graveyard filling up. It reads as a humble three-mana Goblin and functions as a removal suite, a token sweeper, and a wincon stapled to a one-toughness frame, which is precisely why it has spent two decades as a quiet fixture of sacrifice-themed builds that less fragile bodies would never anchor.