Sly Instigator
Goad is usually a table-politics tool: you point an opponent's biggest threat at someone else and hope the math works out. This turns that gamble into a scalpel. Making the goaded creature unblockable removes the one variable goad can't control, which is whether the target actually connects. A goaded attacker can be chump-blocked by the defending player, or simply walled by a bigger body; strip its ability to be blocked and the attack lands, at a player who is specifically not you. That combination lets a controller of the ability push damage the way a burn spell pushes damage, except the source is someone else's creature and the fallout lands on someone else's life total. The repeatable, instant-speed activation is the real engine: over turn cycles you can retarget, so the biggest threat on the board becomes a recurring liability to whoever sits across from it rather than to you. The body is built to survive doing this work, a defensive frame that holds a ground stall while the ability does the aggression by proxy. It reads as a small utility creature, but the design is a deliberate solution to goad's core weakness, turning a suggestion into a certainty.



