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Goblin Firestarter

Creature — Goblin

Sacrifice this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Masters Edition IV
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#27942
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Goblin Firestarter card art
Goblin Firestarter trades itself to deal 1 damage to any target — a clean, free ping on the way out that turns sacrifice into reach. The rate is low, but in the right shell, particularly anything copying it with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, that ping becomes a repeatable kill condition.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Goblin Firestarter is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker — irrelevant in the first three, quietly playable in the last two. In Pauper it fits sacrifice and aristocrats shells that need free damage sources at common, where one guaranteed point of direct damage on death is worth more than it looks. Commander is the real home: Goblin Firestarter slots into Goblin tribal and sacrifice decks that need expendable bodies converting into face damage, especially in high-redundancy strategies that can assemble the same line multiple times.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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MortuaryGoblin FirestarterSouth Wind AvatarBolas's Citadel

MortuaryGoblin FirestarterSouth Wind AvatarBolas's Citadel

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite damage; Infinite death triggers; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinite lifeloss

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Goblin Firestarter isn't available in this listing, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the latest. It's a low-demand common, so expect bulk pricing — well under a dollar in nearly any condition.

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