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________ Goblin

Creature — Goblin Guest

When this creature enters, you may put a name sticker on it. Add {R} for each unique vowel on that sticker. (The vowels are A, E, I, O, U, and Y.)

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Unfinity
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#7061
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________ Goblin card art
________ Goblin turns any attack with Etali, Primal Conqueror into a free-cast engine — its blank name fills in on resolution, letting you chain spells off opponents' libraries before anyone untaps. The cost is real: four separate restrictions keep it out of nearly every competitive format, so Commander is where it actually lives.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy banned
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage banned
pauper banned
oathbreaker banned

________ Goblin carries four hard restrictions built into its text — name, type, color, and mana-cost conditions that all have to be satisfied simultaneously — and that density of constraints is exactly why it's banned in Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, where redundant enablers make the conditions trivially easy to satisfy and the payoff warps the game. Commander gives it a pass because the singleton rule and the slower, multiplayer pace mean you can't reliably assemble the full engine every game, so the card functions as a high-upside include rather than a broken axis. The 100-card constraint is the entire reason ________ Goblin is legal here when it's exiled from virtually every other format.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Etali, Primal Conqueror

29.5% of decks · synergy 0.28

Etali, Primal Conqueror attacks and triggers cascade-style free casts off every opponent's library, and ________ Goblin slots into that engine as another attack-trigger that doubles the spell volume before you even reach combat damage. The combination turns a single swing into a multi-opponent theft chain that closes games on the spot.

02

Ral, Monsoon Mage

25.5% of decks · synergy 0.25

Ral, Monsoon Mage cares about casting instants and sorceries repeatedly in a single turn, and ________ Goblin feeds that count by converting attacks into free casts that all trigger Ral's damage riders. The result is a shell that goldfish-wins off a single well-timed turn rather than grinding incrementally.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Current pricing data for ________ Goblin isn't available in the system, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. Given its banned-everywhere-else status and niche Commander role, it tends to price like a curio rather than a staple — worth grabbing if a copy is cheap, but not a card to chase at a premium.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.