Goblin War Party
Sorcery
Choose one —
• Create three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.
• Creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain haste until end of turn.
Entwine 
(Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #7608
Goblin War Party puts three 1/1 Goblin tokens into play and gives all your Goblins haste until end of turn — that's an immediate, game-relevant board presence for four mana. The cost is real in non-Goblin shells, but in the right tribe it ends games; Wort, the Raidmother can conspire it for six tokens and a full-army haste swing in one shot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Wort, the Raidmother
Wort, the Raidmother's conspire ability turns Goblin War Party into six tokens plus haste for every Goblin you control — that's the ceiling, and it's very high. This is the deck where Goblin War Party is at its absolute best.
General Kreat, the Boltbringer
General Kreat, the Boltbringer rewards flooding the board with small creatures, and Goblin War Party delivers three bodies with immediate haste to trigger or pressure on the same turn. The token count plus the haste rider slots cleanly into what Kreat is trying to accomplish.
Magnus the Red
Magnus the Red discounts sorceries and instants, and Goblin War Party is a sorcery that benefits directly from a cost reduction while generating the creature count Magnus wants to amplify. The combination of cheaper casting and a wider board is exactly the value Magnus players are looking for.
Purphoros, God of the Forge
Purphoros, God of the Forge deals two damage per creature entering the battlefield, so three tokens entering at once is six damage to each opponent for a single card. Goblin War Party is one of the more efficient trigger-generators Purphoros can run.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Goblin War Party actually lives — Goblin tribal and token-wide-attack strategies are Commander staples, and the token count plus haste rider is designed for multiplayer boards where speed matters. In Pauper it's legal but faces stiff competition from faster token engines; the four-mana ask is a real cost in a format built around efficiency. Legacy and Vintage have access to broken alternatives at every point on the curve, so Goblin War Party sees essentially no play there. Stick to Commander for this one, and specifically to Goblin-matters or token-density commanders where every body and every haste trigger compounds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Goblin War Party is bulk — pick it up without thinking twice if the deck calls for it. Bulk rares rarely spike unless they find a competitive home, and this one is firmly a Commander-only card, so the price floor is stable.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Wort, the Raidmother
- General Kreat, the Boltbringer
- Magnus the Red
- Purphoros, God of the Forge
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.