Goblin Patrol
Creature — Goblin
Echo (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.26
- EDHREC rank
- #29353
Goblin Patrol is a 2/2 haste for one red mana — the stat line is real, but the drawback (echo) means you pay two mana on your next upkeep or sacrifice it. In any deck that wants to sacrifice its creatures anyway, the echo cost is irrelevant and you're just getting an efficiently aggressive one-drop.
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 |
In Commander, Goblin Patrol is a role-player in dedicated Goblin tribal lists that use sacrifice or token synergies to nullify the echo drawback — outside those shells, a one-mana 2/2 with a real downside doesn't pull enough weight in a 100-card, four-player format. In Legacy and Vintage, aggressive red strategies have moved well past echo creatures; Goblin Patrol competed in an earlier era of the format but has been outclassed by every subsequent one-drop red Goblin printed since. Pauper is where Goblin Patrol is most plausible — the common format is starved for efficient early attackers, and a deck engineered to blank the echo cost could make it work, though better options still exist at the slot.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.26 bulk tier
At $0.26, Goblin Patrol sits firmly in bulk territory and is unlikely to appreciate — it's a narrow tribal piece with a built-in drawback that limits demand. Grab a copy for pennies if you're building Goblin tribal and need to hit a creature count; otherwise there's no financial reason to seek it out.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.