Jeering Homunculus
Goad, distilled to a single repeatable function: a body whose only job is to point someone else's threat at someone else's face. The 0/4 frame is the giveaway. It blocks capably enough to survive, but it threatens no one on offense, because attacking was never the plan; the wall exists to buy time while the goaded creature does its work somewhere else. That entry trigger conscripts an opponent's best attacker, forcing it to swing each combat and to aim at a player other than you whenever it can. In a duel the clause is nearly dead (the redirect has nowhere else to point), which is exactly why the design only makes sense with three or more players seated. What it does is treat political pressure as a resource: not removal, not a clock, but a way to spend a neighbor's army on the neighbor beside them while you sit behind four toughness and take notes. Blink it, bounce it, sacrifice and rebuild it, and the goad refreshes each time, converting a chump into a recurring instigator. The card asks nothing of your own board and everything of everyone else's, which is why it has quietly earned a slot in decks built to make opponents fight one another.
