Puppet Master, String Puller
Goad has always been the group-hug politician's tool: point an opponent's board at another opponent, sit back, watch the table shred itself. This design closes the loop between the manipulation and your own advancement. The attack trigger fires whenever you declare any attacker, not just this creature, so the goad engine runs without ever putting the 2/4 body at risk: it can hang back, send a token or a spare creature swinging, and still redirect an opponent's threat every turn. And the redirection is total rather than probabilistic. The goaded creature can't block and is compelled to attack someone other than you, so you are not hoping it swings somewhere useful, you are guaranteeing it can't stay home. The second trigger is where the engine turns exploitative: whenever one or more goaded creatures connect with an opponent, you bank a Treasure. That reframes goad from a purely disruptive verb into a resource loop, because the fights you are refereeing now pay you rent. The color placement is the sharp part. Red has long owned goad (Disrupt Decorum, Grenzo, Havoc Raiser), but marrying it to Treasure generation means the political effect ramps you toward whatever you are building, so the deck that slows everyone else down also accelerates itself. This is the villain's version of table control: an engine that profits from a war it orchestrates but never has to fight.
