Goblin Trenches
Enchantment
, Sacrifice a land: Create two 1/1 red and white Goblin Soldier creature tokens.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Eternal Masters
- Price
- $0.32
- EDHREC rank
- #18019
Goblin Trenches turns any land sacrifice into a repeatable 1/1 token factory — pay two mana and sacrifice a land, get two Goblin Soldiers, do it as often as you can afford. The catch is the land loss, which makes it a liability in decks that need every land standing; Hazezon, Shaper of Sand sidesteps that entirely by treating land count as a resource to spend rather than protect.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand scales its Sand Warrior token count directly off lands in play, so Goblin Trenches gives you a release valve — convert excess lands into Goblin Soldiers rather than sitting on a board state that stalls out, all while the token count stays high enough to matter.
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 Trenches is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it never made a mark in Legacy or Vintage — the tempo cost of sacrificing lands is too steep in formats where efficiency is everything. Commander is its natural home: slower games, token synergies everywhere, and plenty of commanders that either generate extra lands or care about tokens entering the battlefield. In Oathbreaker the same logic applies at a smaller table, though the faster game speed makes the land-sacrifice cost sting more.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.32 bulk tier
At $0.32, Goblin Trenches is bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a repeatable token engine with a real upside in the right shell. Bulk enchantments with narrow synergy tend to stay cheap, so there's no urgency to stock up, but picking up a copy for a token or land-focused Commander deck is a no-brainer at this price.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.