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Volley Veteran

Creature — Goblin Warrior3 generic manaRed mana

What four mana buys here is a Goblin-count removal spell stapled to a body, and the body counts itself the moment it arrives: the enters trigger reads your board with the new Goblin already included, so a battlefield with a few one-drops down turns it into Lightning Bolt or better pointed at a single opposing blocker. The math scales in exactly the direction a Goblin deck already wants to grow. The restrictions are deliberate. Damage can only go at something an opponent controls, so this never doubles as reach to the face or a way to clear your own creature off a stalled board. The trigger fires only on entry, so there is no repeatable burn engine, just one shot priced to the state of your battlefield when it lands. And the 2 toughness means it folds to the same cheap removal it is built to outrace, which keeps it from snowballing unchecked. It belongs to a long line of go-wide tribal payoffs that reward committing bodies before they reward committing power: the more Goblins you have out, the better the rate. The floor is not nothing, though. Cast into an otherwise empty board it still deals 1 to a lone opposing creature (the count is one, itself), so you get a 4/2 and a small ping rather than a blank. That conditional ceiling is the whole pitch: deploy it onto a developed board and you have cleared a blocker for free.

Volley Veteran (j25)
J25 · #142uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, it deals damage to target creature an opponent controls equal to the number of Goblins you control.
Legalities

Format Status

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