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Sly Instigator

Creature — Human Wizard3 generic manaBlue mana

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.

Sly Instigator (prm)
PRM · #90028rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Blue mana, Tap: Until your next turn, target creature an opponent controls can't be blocked. Goad that creature. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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