Ignoble Hierarch
The direct color-shift of Noble Hierarch, taking the same 0/1 exalted mana dork and re-pointing its mana across the aggressive shard instead of the fair one. The exalted trigger names the plan without ceremony: a single attacker crashing in a point bigger while everything else stays back to hold up interaction. Acceleration and exalted normally pull against each other. A dork that ramps you toward big spells wants those spells to matter more than combat; exalted wants exactly one creature swinging. The tension resolves in low-curve, threat-dense builds that were only ever going to attack with one creature anyway, turning what would be a wasted attack step into a free pump. The frail body is deliberate: it makes mana and feeds the trigger without ever wanting to swing, so exalted always points at the real threat. The color context is what makes this worth building. Black-red-green never had a clean turn-one accelerant that also nudged an aggressive plan forward: green's dorks skew toward fair midrange, and the aggressive shards mostly ramp through rituals that spend themselves in a single burst. Deathrite Shaman gave those colors a persistent one-drop, but it accelerated through graveyards and never touched combat. This is the repeatable version that does both, adding mana and a combat bump to the game's lone attacker from the same single-mana Goblin.

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- The List#MH2-166
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