Kitt Kanto, Mayhem Diva
Most goad effects live in blue and red and read as pure chaos-enablement: point the biggest creature at someone else, watch the table shred itself. Here goad is reframed as a compulsion that fires during every player's combat, not just yours, and it comes bundled with a pump. Tapping two of your own creatures to give an opponent's creature +2/+2, trample, and an obligation to swing turns their board into a weapon, and the timing is what does the interesting work: the trigger resolves before that player declares attackers, so the goad is what commits their creature to attacking in the first place. You are not redirecting a swing already aimed; you are forcing one that had not yet been declared. The direction stays outside your control, though: goad only bars the creature from attacking you, so its controller still picks which of the remaining opponents eats the trampling body you just enlarged. The tap cost sets the price. Spending two bodies of tempo to weaponize one wants a wide, expendable board rather than a small elite one; the entering Citizen token and Naya's go-wide instincts both nudge you there. Unlike a monarch-style political engine, this never hands you the damage. It hands you the ignition. A Cat Bard conducting other people's armies into each other, turn after turn, without ever swinging in herself, while quietly building a citizenry of her own.
