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Creature — Goblin Mercenary2 generic manaRed mana

Goblin decks have always fought a mana problem: they flood the board wide, but every subsequent body still costs full price out of hand, and a stalled turn is a dead turn. The Max speed tap ability answers that by adding red equal to your Goblin count, converting a wide board into an explosive burst of mana that scales with the same swarm you were already deploying. Because it grants haste to your other Goblins, the tokens it manufactures each combat, plus whatever the ramp lets you recast, all attack the same turn, welding a resource engine to a pressure engine. The forced attack on the token is the honest tax: those bodies charge into combat whether or not you want the trade, so the card pushes tempo rather than letting you camp on a wide board. The loop is the real design: make a Goblin, count more Goblins, generate more mana, cast more Goblins, then attack wider next combat. Most tribal payoffs pick one axis (ramp, or token generation, or a keyword grant); this piles all three onto a 2/3 red frame and lets the swarm itself dictate how much mana comes online. Note that it grants haste, not a power boost, so it accelerates the tribe without inflating it. The defensively modest body is deliberate, because its job is not to attack: its job is to bankroll everything that does.

Howlsquad Heavy (dft)
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Oracle Text

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Start your engines! Other Goblins you control have haste. At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token. That token attacks this combat if able. Max speed — Tap: Add Red mana for each Goblin you control.
Legalities

Format Status

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