Goblin Festival
Enchantment
: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target. Flip a coin. If you lose the flip, choose one of your opponents. That player gains control of this enchantment.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Destiny
- Price
- $0.93
- EDHREC rank
- #17467
Goblin Festival makes your opponent flip coins to deal 1 damage to your creatures — an effect so marginal it barely registers on a real board. Unless you're engineering a coin-flip theme from top to bottom, Goblin Festival belongs in the bulk bin.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Goblin Festival is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, the only realistic home is a dedicated coin-flip build — Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom or Okaun, Eye of Chaos — where Goblin Festival contributes to the flip count rather than the damage output. Legacy and Vintage have no reason to run it; the effect is too slow and too random for those formats. Oathbreaker shares Commander's casual ceiling, so the same narrow coin-flip caveat applies.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.93 bulk tier
At $0.93, Goblin Festival sits at the high end of bulk — overpriced for what it does given its negligible competitive demand. Don't expect the price to reflect playability; it's driven by scarcity of an old printing, not utility.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.