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I'd very much like to see this card reprinted in a new set. It definitely has a lot of untapped potential it can never realize in its current formats.

I do love the Weatherlight storyline.

Run with Wrath of God.

Hello False Prophet.

Actually, would this work with False Prophet? An additional cost for Scapegoat is to sacrifice a creature, then the ability is put on the stack. However, if you sacrifice False Prophet to pay Scapegoat's additional cost wouldn't it's ability go off first before Scapegoat's? Unless I'm missing something here?

Either way, still a good card and useful with Wrath.

awesome how Volrath dodges Gerrards fatal blow by using a white spell :D

im refering to "smite"

Run with goat tokens. Punny.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this won't work with False Prophet. The sacrifice is an additional cost, which must be paid as you play the spell. FP's ability will trigger the next time a player receives priority, which will be when you're done with the stack, and get on top of Scapegoat, thus resolving first. This will cause Scapegoat to be countered because all of its targets are no longer legal, having been removed from the game.

if you used this with false prophet, the wrath trigger would go on the stack above the bounce effect when you payed scapegoat's cost, which includes the saccing.

"Target board sweeper bounces your guys instead of killing them. Except for one scapegoat. And all your tokens."
Is that really worth 3.8 stars? Has anybody actually run this in a real deck?
No Rest for the Wicked is usually better. In fairness, there's nothing else that does this nearly so cheaply.

Run with Glimpse of Nature and a bunch of 0-CMC dudes like Memnite, Ornithopter and some Kobolds.

Use this with Aluren, Recycle, and a whole bunch of Tempest Slivers (which all cost 3 CMC or less). Massive card advantage!

This card powers my favorite rogue Legacy deck, Nature's Scapegoats. You play Nature's Claim and start playing zero-drop creatures (Ornithopter, Kobolds of Kher Keep, etc) as cantrips. But since you only draw one card per creature played, sooner or later you run out of gas -- you have a hand of noncreature spells and ten or twelve worthless creatures on the field. You usually won't draw a second Nature's Claim soon enough to start gaining card advantage. Scapegoat lets you scoop your battlefield, recast those creatures, draw that many cards again, and squeak into a Grapeshot FTW.

It's a fragile combo and not as powerful or reliable as top-tier decks, but man is it fun to watch it do its thing.

@ Salient

The card you mean is Glimpse of Nature and the deck is called "Cheerios".

This card, sadly, cannot be stolen with Goatnapper.