Goad effects like Taunt from the Rampart and Disrupt Decorum are the bluntest tools here, but you can also use Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor, Scriv, the Obligator, and Edric, Spymaster of Trest to reward your opponents getting into the red zone
Now, once you play your Giant Growth (and target your goblin), it will get the +3/+3 boost, becoming a 5/5 until the end of the turn, and no longer die to Defeat because its power is now over two
It also makes your creatures tougher to block without trading
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You can pay the cost of "discard your hand" even if your hand contains zero cards
It has a different application from other creatures on this list