Rundvelt Hordemaster
Goblin lords have historically been trades on raw stats: Krenko builds bodies, Goblin King grants menace, Goblin Chieftain hands out haste. This one is aimed at the way Goblins actually play out, which is to say by dying constantly and cheaply. The anthem is the familiar half; converting every fallen Goblin into a dig for more Goblins, with a window to keep the chain running, is the genuine departure. In a shell where the one-drops are meant to trade in combat and the aristocrat lines actively want bodies in the graveyard, that turns attrition from a resource drain into card advantage. It rewards going wide not for the alpha strike but for the sheer volume of triggers: sacrifice a token, exile a card, flip a Goblin, cast it, repeat. Because the generous casting window stretches across your following turn, you can hold the exiled card rather than commit it immediately, which quietly makes the effect a filtering tool as much as an engine. And since it fires on the Hordemaster's own death too, its final act is one more dig, one more chance to rebuild the board it was pumping. Its own body is what balances all of this: a fragile anthem that vanishes the instant it dies, so protecting the creature, not merely resolving it, is the actual demand the card places on you.
