Captain Rex Nebulaĭing ding ding ding, the fourth 2 card printed this year that can go infinite with Devoted Druid ! Just go to combat, turn Devoted Druid into a Vehicle, and suddenly she'll lose creature typing. Tinder Wall, Dockside Extortionist and Treasonous Ogre all fit this description and it's no coincidence they're cEDH staples.
There are no shortage of creatures in Magic that produce a lot of mana, but there are very few that produce more than they cost the same turn they come into play. Right now the most obvious home for _ Goblin is in a favorite deck of mine, Koll, the Forgemaster where mana neutral/positive creatures are already the name of the game. It's a tremendous amount of work just to figure out what a single card actually does. There's no way reasonable people will expect you to do this and I'm sure randomising on the spot will be fine, but good god. While you'll pick the same ten your opponent chose, unfortunately, technically speaking, the randomising has to happen before the game begins. You don't need real sticker sheets (they operate more like counters, and anything will suffice) but you do have to pick a set of ten sticker sheets and randomly pick three of them. As long as you've got a Phantasmal Image in your deck, there's a chance you'll have to figure out what stickers you have access to. That's right folks, if you clone a _ Goblin you'll be able to place a name sticker and generate mana. You don't need stickers if you have Praetor's Grasp, Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer or a reanimation effect in your deck because you can only ever place stickers on permanents you own, making _ Goblin useless. _ Goblin is irritatingly impractical, even in the best of circumstances, and even when you're not playing it yourself. The ease of execution here will hinge on which your best sticker is, but you can guarantee it with any zero mana creature 1. Thankfully, there is a card that will easily create infinite mana with _ Goblin Cloudstone Curio. Stickers stay stuck for as long as a card remains in a public zone, meaning that blinking will not go infinite: you'll run out of stickers.
It's also important to know you can't go infinite with _ Goblin in the same way you would with Dockside Extortionist. There are decks that care about making mana and little else ( Godo, Bandit Warlord ), but there aren't many of them. It also makes _ Goblin terribly hard to evaluate. This gives a 71% chance that your three sticker sheets will contain a five- or six-vowel word, at which point _ Goblin starts to feel like a real ritual. There is one sticker sheet with a six-vowel word, two with five, and six with four. This means even though you'll only get three of those ten sheets, _ Goblin will always make a minimum of four mana. There are 44 sticker sheets to choose from, nine of which of have a word with four or more unique vowels. What matters is that despite its inherent randomness, _ Goblin will always be mana-positive. Ponder those questions while you try to get your head around a card that works differently every time you play it.
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