Goblin Chirurgeon
Creature — Goblin Shaman
Sacrifice a Goblin: Regenerate target creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fallen Empires
- Price
- $0.89
- EDHREC rank
- #3464
Goblin Chirurgeon turns any expendable Goblin into a free regeneration shield, keeping your most important creatures alive through removal at zero mana cost. In a Muxus, Goblin Grandee deck where one resolved Muxus can end the game, protecting that investment from a single piece of interaction is worth a deck slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Muxus, Goblin Grandee
Muxus, Goblin Grandee costs six mana and dies to any removal spell before its trigger resolves — Goblin Chirurgeon exists primarily to prevent that from happening, sacrificing a token to regenerate Muxus and let the chain continue.
Wort, Boggart Auntie
Wort, Boggart Auntie wants to stay on board and recur Goblins from the graveyard, making her a high-value target; Goblin Chirurgeon provides cheap insurance so a single removal spell doesn't set the recursion engine back a full turn cycle.
Krenko, Mob Boss
Krenko, Mob Boss is the most-targeted creature at any Goblin table, and Goblin Chirurgeon lets you feed one of his many tokens to regenerate him — the math almost always favors trading a 1/1 to keep the doubling engine running.
Grub, Storied Matriarch
Grub, Storied Matriarch generates value proportional to how long she stays in play, so Goblin Chirurgeon's regeneration shield extends that clock without spending mana or card slots on higher-cost protection.
General Kreat, the Boltbringer
General Kreat, the Boltbringer needs to attack to apply pressure, and Goblin Chirurgeon lets you block or absorb a removal spell without losing him — sacrifice a goblin, keep the damage engine, repeat next turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Goblin Chirurgeon is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker. Commander is where it sees the most play, specifically in Goblin tribal shells that need free, repeatable protection for their key creatures. In Pauper it's a legal option in Goblin aggro lists, though the format's speed and the frequency of sacrifice-based interaction make a regeneration ability harder to leverage than in the longer games of Commander. Legacy and Vintage Goblin shells rarely reach for it — those formats move too fast for a tap-and-sacrifice protection piece to compete with the direct threat density those decks prefer.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.89 bulk tier
At $0.89, Goblin Chirurgeon sits in bulk-rare territory and is essentially a free inclusion for any Goblin tribal deck on a budget. The price is stable — it's not a card that spikes on demand, and its narrow tribal home keeps it from ever drifting much higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Muxus, Goblin Grandee
- Wort, Boggart Auntie
- Krenko, Mob Boss
- Grub, Storied Matriarch
- General Kreat, the Boltbringer
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.