On top of that, there are a lot of mana abilities that can quickly change an interaction
Since goad is intended for multiplayer formats like Commander, it has only been printed on a relatively small number of cards
4 Beast Within / Arachnogenesis In 1987, the history of Marvel Comics, and superhero comics in general, changed forever when a young artist called Todd McFarlane was hired to work on Amazing Spider-Man
The Dark There's only one card from The Dark that I feel is relevant to this discussion: This card is important because I believe this is the beginning of the end of the non- +1/+1 or -1/-1 counter
None of the party effects are particularly good, usually reducing costs by one generic mana for each member of your party, and normally capped at four by the spell cost itself
As you get to chose what you counter you will tend to only counter high value targets so as to minimise the relative drawback