Shiny Impetus
Goad is normally a giveaway: you pay to turn a threat away from yourself and toward everyone else, then hope the resulting combat math bleeds someone other than you. This Aura turns that giveaway into a paying position. Enchant the meanest creature you don't own, hand it +2/+2 so its forced swing lands harder, and collect a Treasure every time the goad clause sends it into someone else's board. The threat was never yours, but its attacks now fund your ramp and color fixing. That is the idea worth pausing on: it charges a toll for redirecting another player's aggression, converting political pressure into mana. The economics run in your favor because the enchantment usually lands on a body already inclined to swing on its own; you commit a single card and borrow the creature. The cost is the ordinary exposure of any Aura on a permanent you don't control: one removal spell or bounce erases the enchantment, the Treasure faucet, and the +2/+2 all at once, and the whole plan collapses if the creature dies. The ceiling comes from picking the target yourself, so the best homes are creatures already built to swing every turn. It sits among the red enchantments designed to weaponize the multiplayer combat step rather than a one-on-one board, mining value from a phase that other colors mostly treat as neutral ground.

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