168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Commander is the most popular way to play 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering, so it makes sense that there are mechanics in the game that only work in multiplayer scenarios. Goad debuted as one such mechanic in 2016's Conspiracy: Take the Crown, and has been forcing action in Commander ever since.

What started off as a simple Limited mechanic has now exploded into a fully fleshed out ability you can build entire 100-card decks around. Goad support comes out in just about every supplementary product now, and it's a great way to make sure Commander games come to a timely conclusion, sometimes without the need to ever get your own hands dirty.

10 ꦅ 🎃 Alela, Cunning Conqueror

Instant-Speed Trickery

Alela's narrow, but it's also just chaotic fun in the decks that support it, namely 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Faerie decks or ones built around instant-speed interaction. You're incentivized to load your deck up with cheap plays you can make on your opponents' turns, each of which will net a 1/1 flying Faerie token.

These Faeries can then slip by in combat and goad your opponents' creatures. That means your opponents' best threats won't be coming your way, which gives you more breathing room to cast spells that don't typically affect the board, which in turn begets more Faerie tokens.

9 ๊ Grenzo, Havoc Raiser 🍸

A Contentious Goblin Commander

The play patterns on Grenzo are somewhat unintuitive. You want to hit your opponents to goad their creatures, but if they have creatures worth goading, how are you getting through in the first place? That's the tricky part for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a mono-red deck, but it's a puzzle worth solving.

Maybe you have your eyes on Grenzo's card draw ability instead, but the challenge of connecting in combat still stands. Goblin decks usually go wide enough to simply slam more creatures through than your opponents can block, but 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Goblin Commander decks almost always put Krenko, Mob Boss in charge.

8 The Rani

Goading In Unfamiliar Territory

The Rani is an overall strange design for a card, from making a specifically-named aura token to its blue-black-red color identity, a combination that's not well-known for aggression or attacking. Well, The Rani isn't really the one attacking, but it definitely promotes violence.

The payoff's a little worse than some other goad commanders, since making a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Clue token is𒆙 weaker on average than just drawing cards. However, it 💞might actually be an advantage if you can play into the heavy artifact synergies present in this color pair.

7 Baeloth🐟 B🎉arrityl, Entertainer

Get In There, Little Ones!

Not to be confused with Magic's Baloths, this 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dungeons & Dragons character does a lot to set itself apart from the competition. It's one of Magic's only mono-red 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elf creatures, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Background ability lets you customiz𒅌e the way you can build your deck. Best to pair it with a Background that increases its power.

'Entertainer' feels like an appropriate title, assuming of course that you find small creatures marching off to their deaths in glorious combat entertaining. It's a great way to help pick off utility creatures, which tend to have small stat-lines and usually avoid combat altogether.

6 Firkraag, Cunning 🍌Instigator

Just Missing The Dungeons

Befitting of the first Dungeons & Dragons crossover set to have an entire 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Commander precon built around Dragons. The trick there, though, is making the deck feel distinct from the myriad other Dragon decks that already exist in Magic, especially Commander 2017's Draconic Domination precon.

Firkraag certainly feels distinct enough. It does all the usual ℱshenanigans of drawing cards and becoming a massive threat as your opponents attack into one another, but tying those abilities into a Dragon-themed shell makes this commander feel wholly unique and intere𝄹sting to build around.

5 🧜 Karazikar, Th🌠e Eye Tyrant

Quite The Looker

Karazikar has violence on the mind... er, eyes. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Appropriate for a Beholder. It has a pretty standard design for a political Commander card, incentivizing opponents to brawl with each other for card draw instead of looking ꦬin your direction. Card draw is quite the motivator in Commander.

If your opponents need a bit of persuasion, you can always make an attack yourself and goad a creature you want to lure into combat. Even better, Karazikar taps that creature down for the turn so it can't just callously block and avoid attacking.

Karazikar triggers when you attack, which means it doesn't actually have to be the creature attacking. You can cast Karazikar and attack with something else to get a goad trigger right away.

4 Kitt Kanto, May❀hem Diva

Good Old Fashioned Cat Fights

The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Streets of New Capenna Commander decks featured alternative commanders with abilities that could benefit your opponents if you chose to do so. Not quite 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:all-in group hug commanders, but they definitely had that feel to them.

You can be greedy with Kitt Kanto, using it to pump up one of your big attackers each combat, or you could give +2/+2 to an opponent's creature on their turn and goad it. The Mayhem Diva's excellent at making sure the game progresses and damage is being dealt, whether your opponents want the 'help' or not.

3 💮 𓄧 Laurine, The Diversion

(Ft. Kamber)

Laurine is only half of a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:partner pairing focused on creating artifacts and sacrificing them to force your opponents' creatures into combat. Laurine's a solid combatant even without the extra sacrifice text, since a 3/3 first-striker holds its own in combat pretty well, on offense and defense.

Of course, they don't call her 'The Diversion' for no reason. Laurine's there to keep opposing threats off your back while Kamber generates Blood tokens. Those tokens can be fed to Laurine's sacrifice ability, or you can use them as intended and just shape up your hand instead.

2 Marisi, Bre꧙aker Of The Coil ꧑

Also Breaks Faces

Marisi was one of the first mass-goading legends in the format, released as the alternate commander in Commander 2019's Primal Genesis precon. It wasn't nearly as popular as the face commander, Ghired, Conclave Exile, but it's still strong in decks built to capitalize on its abilities.

Marisi requires that your creatures connect in combat, so you'll have to support them with unblockable-granting effects, or bias towards evasive creatures with trample, flying, etc. The reward is goading opponents' entire boards, which keeps you safe from their attacks. Bonus points for shutting off your opponents' ability to interact effectively in combat.

1 Nelly Borca, Impulsiv♎e Accuser

Good Use Of The Pointer Finger

Nelly mixes the goad mechanic with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Murders at Karlov Manor's suspected mechanic. 'Suspecting' a creature gives it menace and makes it permanently unable to block, a combination of abilities that roughly translates to: "Players will be taking damage." Goading suspected creatures is a perfect combination of effects.

Of course, Nelly's not all belligerence all the time. It shares card draw with your opponents as they smash into one another, though one might argue rewarding someone for something you forced them to do isn't exactly benevolent behavior. Card draw heals all wounds in Commander, though.