Adder-Staff Boggart
Creature — Goblin Warrior
When this creature enters, clash with an opponent. If you win, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on their choice of the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a greater mana value.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Lorwyn
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #25865
Adder-Staff Boggart enters as a 2/1 haste for two mana — fine stats, but the clash trigger is too unreliable to build around. It's a role-player in tribal Goblin lists that want a cheap haste body and nothing more.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Adder-Staff Boggart sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern, where a two-mana 2/1 haste needs to do something more broken to justify a slot. In Pauper, Goblin tribal exists but leans on more consistent payoffs than a clash-dependent creature. Commander is where Adder-Staff Boggart finds its only real home, slotting into Goblin tribal decks under commanders like Krenko, Mob Boss or Wort, Boggart Auntie as a low-cost haste enabler that gets the tribe moving before combat.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Adder-Staff Boggart is pure bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're buying it because it fills a slot in a tribal list for less than the cost of a sleeve. Bulk commons and uncommons like this hold no financial floor, but losing a dime on a card that rotates out of your Goblin deck is not a concern worth having.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.