I RUN FIVE IN MY DECK! YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN THERE MIGHT BE GOATS ON TEH LOOSE!
Seryntas
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(28 votes)
I know that Gatherer says there hasn't been a Goat creature released since Onslaught block, but I don't trust that. I just know there are goats in every deck I see, waiting to be napped. I carry two of this card in my wallet. I keep one under my pillow. One time my friend was like "ready to go to the goat farm?" and I grabbed my binder full of copies of this card and I was like "YES I AM".
That last was also how I discovered that come-into-play abilities don't work on creatures in real life. It was traumatic for me.
TheRedScare
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This card is villainy.
Etregan
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Hello changelings...
Facevaulterrules234
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(10 votes)
THIS WORKED ONCE, I SWEAR IT DID!! I DIDN'T WIN BECAUSE I WANTED IT TO WORK AND TAKING A LOSS IS DAMN WORTH MAKING GOATNAPPER WORK.
Volcre
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(9 votes)
Ultimate Goat Hoser... in the future when Goat Decks become the most powerful in all of Magic, Goatnapper will be there, waiting...
Run Unnatural Selection in your deck and BAM get control of ANY creature for a turn for only 4 mana! TOTALLY worth splashing blue in your deck! (or alternatively red, but since you probably want to get as many goatnappers out as you can you really should be using red as your main)
John-Bender
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Kinda surprised Mountain Goat hasn't gotten a reprint with this cards release :P
Gezus82
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
it's weird but this actually works in lowryn, just steal changelings. and in shadowmoor there's a bunch of cards tat make 0/1 goats.
Gaussgoat
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(17 votes)
RAting it 4/5 becuase:
a) It's named Goatnapper
b) Some of Ron Spencer's funniest artwork yet
c) It is a goblin so you could use it for fodder,
d) As other's have pointed out, you could actually swipe a changling with it which would be hillarious
e) It is named Goatnapper for God's sake.
Ava_Adore
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(10 votes)
greatest card, ever printed
Tommy9898
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(5 votes)
I'm sad that they never actually went and made a cloud goat card. :( I'm sure Rosheen meanderer's goat would have been legendary too.
xonix2002
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
This could give storm crow a run for it's money or its goat.
VoidedNote
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(6 votes)
5/5 for the sheer impracticality and hilarity of this card. I think it was made to hate on changlings personally, seeing how there are maybe 5 goat creatures at most.
Edit: I stand corrected there are SIX goats in magic and they are all red.
Ashamed
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(8 votes)
Oh, snap! How dare you attack me with my 0/1 goat token?! I just payed for it with my absolutely -BROKEN- Springjack Pasture.
ChampionofSquee
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
the funny thing about this card is that it actually has some really good combos, but the card itself is such a funny card that people just assume that it can't also have such a great purpose. Combo w/ Mistform Mask and you can take your opponents best creature, or one of their changelings, or one of their goats... i give it a 5/5 b/c not only is it hilarious it also has excellent combo potential.
catowner
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
very flavorful. as mentioned before, you can also use it to snag changelings or combo with creature type changes
boneclub
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
He got my Goat.
thedarkheathen
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Run it in your OWN goat deck to give a goat haste until end of turn. GENIUS.
Rblock
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(11 votes)
I wish I was kidding, but a friend managed to kill me with a Mountain Goat and this. Needless to say, for that night I wasn't a man anymore.
If they hadn't made Goats in Eventide, I would have been happy. This was meant to interact with changelings (or combos), yes, but once they made actual Goats, they made them 0/1, making this horrible against them.
divine_exodus
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This should have synergy with cloudgoat ranger, but the ranger makes kithkin tokens.... i mean, he's even a giant!!
blindthrall
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
YES. Do you know what victory smells like? No? IT SMELLS LIKE GOAT.
Sothasil
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I'm in yo base, stealin' yo goats
CrazyLou
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
It's actually kind of funny how this might take a Changeling. It's like for the moment that Goatnapper decides to goatnap, it just happened to be a goat.
GoatKnapper
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
one of my favorite flavor cards ever
Run With Teferi's Veil and Wings of Velis Vel / Blades of Velis Vel / Shield of Velis Vel for a permenent Mind Control like ability on any viable creaure (as long as you attack the turn you steal it)
if you wanna get really nasty play Conspiracy declaring goat, donate it and than hit your goatnapper with a kicked Rite of Replication . Once again run with teferi's veil for permenent control (as long as you attack with all the creatures you steal the turn you take contol)
it might be a pain and require multipule colors but it is good fun in casual, plus once the mind control ability goes off properly there is no way to reverse it easily (like being able to destroy the enchant creature card) and teferi's veil the real beauty that makes this whole sick combo work is only 2 cmc and costs about 25 cents
Also Amoebiod Changeling works great for changing creature types and you can get endless Goatnapper tokens with blades of velis vel (or any change to all creature types/goat) targeting your goatnapper and than throw on a Splinter Twin , tap to get a goatnapper token using the token's come into play trigger to untap the Goatnapper with Splinter Twin , repeat as you like
infernox10
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
This was most likely made to use against the Changeling mechanic.
Unless there's a goat I'm not aware of that worth 'napping.
Fagulheiro
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
C'mon ppl, think of how to combo it is just... Wait! Use with Bazaar Trader and the you might keep the goat and... Damn it! got me too =/
He's climbin in yo pastures Snatchin yo livestock up Tryin' to 'nap em so y'all need to Hide yo kids Hide yo wife Hide yo kids Hide yo wife Hide yo kids Hide yo wife And hide yo husband Cuz they nappin everybody out there
Gelzo
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(8 votes)
It took forever until I figured out his name was a pun.
What's a baby goat called?
TheSwarm
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
HAHAHA the rulings are so awesome!!!
iraah9
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Well, he's got my goat...
penguinmage25
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
its useless why is it rated so high
xwayj
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
"Yes, target Goat. Goat is a creature type." -From the rulings.
"Your blightsteel? it's now a goat" "...ok?" "goatnapper. suck it."
KokoshoForPresident
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
There's no way you can rate this card lower than five. It's just one of those things like Phelddagrif. It proves WoTC has a sense of humor.
JL2736
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
What I don't get is, if the goatnappers steal cloudgoats, why can't it steal the tokens produced by cloudgoat ranger?
greenzero
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
OKAY, I've got it.
Play Conspiracy, naming Goat. All your creatures are Goats. Play Goatnapper, targeting nothing (Unless you want to untap something of yours). Play Splinter Twin, target Goatnapper, tap to make another napper, target the first Goatnapper (the one with Splinter Twin on it), untap the Original Napper, make a copy, untap the original.....
Then your opponent dies to a horde of goats. The End.
Paolino
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
We are all waiting for the über-timmy goat! Something like...
That's it, I'm done with MTG. This card is completely broken. I mean, Storm Crow was bad enough, then they printed Chimney Imp and it ruined Legacy, as well as Standard until it rotated out. Then they had to go and print this abomination.
0.5/5 for being game-breaking.
JimmyNoobPlayer
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Goats are pretty bizarre. Lorwyn goats are fluffy white and 0/1, but the six goat creature cards are all red and include the firebreathing Goat BEASTS.
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That last was also how I discovered that come-into-play abilities don't work on creatures in real life. It was traumatic for me.
a) It's named Goatnapper
b) Some of Ron Spencer's funniest artwork yet
c) It is a goblin so you could use it for fodder,
d) As other's have pointed out, you could actually swipe a changling with it which would be hillarious
e) It is named Goatnapper for God's sake.
I'm sure Rosheen meanderer's goat would have been legendary too.
Edit: I stand corrected there are SIX goats in magic and they are all red.
How dare you attack me with my 0/1 goat token?! I just payed
Run With Teferi's Veil and Wings of Velis Vel / Blades of Velis Vel / Shield of Velis Vel for a permenent Mind Control like ability on any viable creaure (as long as you attack the turn you steal it)
if you wanna get really nasty play Conspiracy declaring goat, donate it and than hit your goatnapper with a kicked Rite of Replication . Once again run with teferi's veil for permenent control (as long as you attack with all the creatures you steal the turn you take contol)
it might be a pain and require multipule colors but it is good fun in casual, plus once the mind control ability goes off properly there is no way to reverse it easily (like being able to destroy the enchant creature card) and teferi's veil the real beauty that makes this whole sick combo work is only 2 cmc and costs about 25 cents
Also Amoebiod Changeling works great for changing creature types and you can get endless Goatnapper tokens with blades of velis vel (or any change to all creature types/goat) targeting your goatnapper and than throw on a Splinter Twin , tap to get a goatnapper token using the token's come into play trigger to untap the Goatnapper with Splinter Twin , repeat as you like
Unless there's a goat I'm not aware of that worth 'napping.
But I suppose goblins are rarely bigoated.
Sorry.
Snatchin yo livestock up
Tryin' to 'nap em so y'all need to
Hide yo kids
Hide yo wife
Hide yo kids
Hide yo wife
Hide yo kids
Hide yo wife
And hide yo husband
Cuz they nappin everybody out there
What's a baby goat called?
"Your blightsteel? it's now a goat"
"...ok?"
"goatnapper. suck it."
Play Conspiracy, naming Goat. All your creatures are Goats.
Play Goatnapper, targeting nothing (Unless you want to untap something of yours).
Play Splinter Twin, target Goatnapper, tap to make another napper, target the first Goatnapper (the one with Splinter Twin on it), untap the Original Napper, make a copy, untap the original.....
Then your opponent dies to a horde of goats. The End.
ÜBER-TIMMY GOAT
6RRR
Creature - Goat
Trample, haste, mountainwalk
13/13
Yup, Goatnapper is still relevant in M13.
MUST THE GOAT BE TAPPED TO GAIN CONTROL OF IT? or is this like an Act of Treason ruling?
"Yes, target Goat."
0.5/5 for being game-breaking.
Battering Craghorn
Colos Yearling
Crested Craghorn
Mountain Goat
Wild Colos
Zodiac Goat
Springjack Pasture
Springjack Shepherd
Trading Post
Nine goat cards and no more. Goatnapper is so desperate for victims, he often settles for changelings.
Make him equip tuned stalactite to emrakul, the aeons torn
Then on your turn play goatnapper and WIN!
-Swag_Crow
I'mma nab your Chameleon Colossus and hit you with it.
Why?
Because in Soviet Lorwyn, goat herds you.
2: Amoeboid Changeling.
3: Goatnapper.
4: Splinter twin.
Goatnapper, driven mad by the increasing number of Trading Posts, kidnaps himself fourty-two thousand seven hundred and nineteen times.