Goblin Test Pilot
Creature — Goblin Pilot Wizard
Flying
: This creature deals 2 damage to any target chosen at random.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Dragon's Maze
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #26327
Goblin Test Pilot spends your turn dealing one damage to a random target — an effect so unreliable that even dedicated chaos builds struggle to justify the slot. Two mana to cast and a full tap to activate is too much investment for an outcome you can't control.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Goblin Test Pilot is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially zero competitive play in any of them. In Commander it finds its narrowest niche in chaos or coin-flip decks — think Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom or Okaun, Eye of Chaos — where random targeting is a feature rather than a bug, but even there the one-damage ceiling makes it a bottom-tier inclusion. Constructed formats won't touch it: random single-damage pings scaled to one-on-one games are simply too low-impact to register.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Goblin Test Pilot is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a common box and rarely leaves it. That price is stable because demand is negligible, not because the card is secretly undervalued.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.