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Tin Street Hooligan

Creature — Goblin Rogue1 generic manaRed mana

The conditional artifact destruction is the whole design conceit: this is a mono-red goblin whose relevant text only fires if green helped pay for it. The body costs 1 generic manaRed mana, but the destroy effect is gated behind reaching into green, which means the card is really written for a Gruul shell rather than a pure red deck. Cast on red alone it is just a 2/1, a fine enough early body that does nothing about the artifacts it was named to break. Add the green and the same two-drop becomes a Shatter stapled to a creature, answering a mana rock, a piece of equipment, or any artifact the turn it lands. The lineage here is the long red-green tradition of artifact hate riding on a body: the colors that historically resented mana-fixing and noncreature engines got tools that demanded board commitment to use. What makes this one a clean piece of design is that the conditional is a deckbuilding tax, not a discount: you do not get the destroy effect cheaper for splashing green, you get a worse card if you cannot reach it. It rewards a mana base built to support both colors and quietly punishes the player who jammed it into the wrong deck.

Tin Street Hooligan (plst)
PLST · #GPT-78common
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, if Green mana was spent to cast it, destroy target artifact.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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