I've always been amused that Goblin Striker was an acceptable card to draft in its environment. It looks so futile... and too easy to trump to be relevant. But people often didn't have an early defense in the combo heavy draft environment of Mirrodin, and later, you could pile a bunch of equipment on this guy and let the first strike do some work for you.

So, when thinking about what creatures could get the "Cycle from play ability", I realized I could slap it on Goblin Striker and call it a day. It's fun to see your opponent scrambe to deal with this card. Gets in there when you weren't ready. Gets in there the next round, because you slapped a Taste for Mayhem on it. Then, the round after that, when you double block, he kills one creature in first strike, then sacrifices. I've seen a number of players shake their head in frustration at this guy.

Also, I appear to have a Viashino theme that I didn't remember between this guy and the Viashino Firelord. Go figure.

Yeah, this looks pretty solid.