Sourbread Auntie

Blight is a self-inflicting mechanic, and this Goblin is the clearest statement of what the keyword is for: you shrink your board to widen it. The entry trigger asks you to sink two -1/-1 counters into a creature already on your side, and in exchange it hands back two 1/1 goblins. The obvious read is that you are trading stats for count, but the sharper play aims the shrink at a body that wants it: a creature with a death payoff, a token you were already planning to feed to a sacrifice engine, or an oversized threat you no longer need at full size. Because the counters have to land on your own team, the design pulls you toward a board built to metabolize damage rather than dodge it, and because this enters at sorcery speed it is a deliberate build-around, not a combat trick. That is the tension blight resolves throughout this style of red-black goblin deck: the shrink is a toll the mechanic charges in creature toughness, and the payoff scales with how well your board is set up to absorb it. As a 4/3 for four the base body is unremarkable, which is precisely the point; the card is priced as a converter, not a threat. What it converts is a resource most decks treat as pure downside (a wither-style counter) into two goblins that fuel whatever the deck actually does with wide, expendable creatures.