Then, during the game, you have the ability to sacrifice the Spirit to save any non-Spirit creature
When you do attack, you can just choose to not attack with creatures that naturally have one toughness, focusing only on attacking with your powerful creatures
Though it wont produce you as much extra mana, its card draw ability makes up for that
Larvitar is classified as a 1-Diamond card in the Triumphant Light set
The only deck archetypes that I found to be difficult to work against with the goad theme were the ones that prevent combat damage with fog-like effects, like the Shrine decks and the very aggressive haste-based decks because a lot of their creatures werent on the battlefield during my combat phase
And when the MTG Final Fantasy set releases, the new creature sagas will introduce a new layer of tantalising complexity