Hydras are great, especially Heroes' Bane, and there is Endless One and Banquet Guests
You can get protection from everything (Progenitus)
Marisi, Breaker of the Coil I once read a discussion with the prompt, "Why do you play your favorite color?" One particular answer stuck with me, and I think Marisi encapsulates it perfectly: "I play red to provide the game with forward motion." Goad does just that by forcing players into combat while preventing you from being on the receiving end
Unfortunately, while copying tokens in this way does seem like tremendous fun since City of Death is a saga, it will take time
Stomping Grounds I like that Stomping Grounds is up front about it's number of products and the discounts are some real money savers
There are also powerful ways to threaten each creature on the board at once