---
name: "Popular Entertainer"
mana_cost: "{1}{R}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Legendary Enchantment — Background"
colors: []
color_identity: ["R"]
keywords: ["Goad"]
set: "CLB"
set_name: "Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate"
collector_number: "192"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Zoltan Boros"
oracle_id: "702d7b7b-7935-4cb2-9cd7-06f638f5405f"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/popular-entertainer-clb"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Popular Entertainer
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{R}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Legendary Enchantment — Background
- **Keywords:** Goad

## Oracle Text
Commander creatures you own have "Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, goad target creature that player controls." (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer](/printing/baeloth-barrityl-entertainer-clb.md) — Legendary Creature — Elf Shaman
2. [Puppet Master, String Puller](/printing/puppet-master-string-puller-msc.md) — Legendary Creature — Human Artificer Villain
3. [Goblin Racketeer](/printing/goblin-racketeer-cn2.md) — Creature — Goblin Rogue
4. [Kaima, the Fractured Calm](/printing/kaima-the-fractured-calm-nec.md) — Legendary Creature — Spirit
5. [Bjorna, Nightfall Alchemist](/printing/bjorna-nightfall-alchemist-slx.md) — Legendary Creature — Human
6. [Killian, Decisive Mentor](/printing/killian-decisive-mentor-soc.md) — Legendary Creature — Human Warlock

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #192
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Zoltan Boros

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2022-06-10)* If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.
- *(2022-06-10)* If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
- *(2022-06-10)* You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.
- *(2022-06-10)* If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.
- *(2022-06-10)* If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
- *(2022-06-10)* Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.