Laurine, the Diversion

Goad is a mechanic red usually points outward, forcing an opponent's creatures at another opponent's throat; this Rogue turns it into an engine you feed. The activated ability asks for a cost most goad cards do not: sacrifice an artifact or creature each time you want to redirect a threat, which reframes the whole thing as a sacrifice outlet that happens to weaponize the board against your table rather than mill your own resources into a dead end. That pairing is the design work. Every death you generate through it feeds aristocrats triggers and recursion, while the goad target spends its turn attacking someone else. The 3/3 first-striker body is built to survive the combats it engineers: it trades up on defense and pressures on offense without needing protection. The partner-with clause tutors up Kamber, the Plunderer, the other half of a treasure-and-sacrifice pair, so the two are meant to be assembled as a single deck's worth of fodder generation and death payoffs. Read alone it looks like a modest political red creature; read alongside its partner it is one node in a machine that converts your own permanents into other players' problems and your own value at the same time.