Tivadar's Crusade

Tivadar of Thorn waged his campaign against the goblin warrens without pausing to sort friend from foe, and the card named for him plays the same way: a sweep that erases every Goblin on the table, the caster's own included. That collateral damage is the flavor doing the mechanical work, and it explains why type-specific removal like this faded from the design vocabulary. A three-mana sorcery that reads "destroy all Goblins" is dead against the overwhelming majority of boards, useful only when a single tribe happens to fill the opposing side, and even then it punishes you for fielding the same creatures. Wizards eventually decided that maindeckable hate should cantrip, hit a type wide enough to matter, or fold into a more flexible answer, and "destroy all [creature type]" has almost entirely vanished from later sets in favor of sweepers that ask less of the metagame to earn a slot. What survives here is a design philosophy that prized honoring a named hero's grudge over generality, a card willing to exist purely to settle Tivadar's score with one tribe even at the cost of catching the caster's own warren in the blast. It is a curio more than a tool, the kind of printing that maps the boundary of where storytelling-first removal stopped being something the game wanted to print.