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Goblin Welder

Creature — Goblin Artificer

{T}: Choose target artifact a player controls and target artifact card in that player's graveyard. If both targets are still legal as this ability resolves, that player simultaneously sacrifices the artifact and returns the artifact card to the battlefield.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
$20.41
EDHREC rank
#1549
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Goblin Welder card art
Goblin Welder turns your graveyard into a second hand — tap it to swap an artifact in play for a bigger one in the bin, at instant speed, for free on the stack. Paired with Thornbite Staff or slotted under Daretti, Scrap Savant, it becomes a repeatable recursion engine that warps the whole game around artifact graveyard value.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Daretti, Scrap Savant

Daretti, Scrap Savant

80.1% of decks · synergy 0.72

Daretti, Scrap Savant and Goblin Welder share the same gameplan — loot artifacts into the graveyard and pull them back — so the two stack into a redundant, resilient engine that runs hot from turn one.

02
Osgir, the Reconstructor

Osgir, the Reconstructor

48.7% of decks · synergy 0.45

Osgir, the Reconstructor fills the graveyard fast with his activated ability, and Goblin Welder turns those discarded artifacts into on-demand recursion even before Osgir can copy them.

04
Feldon of the Third Path

Feldon of the Third Path

52.5% of decks · synergy 0.44

Feldon of the Third Path generates token copies of creatures in the graveyard, and Goblin Welder can swap those temporary tokens for permanent artifacts mid-combat, converting Feldon's ephemeral value into lasting board presence.

05
Imskir Iron-Eater

Imskir Iron-Eater

45.1% of decks · synergy 0.42

Imskir Iron-Eater wants a steady supply of artifacts entering and leaving the battlefield to trigger her draw-and-damage ability, and Goblin Welder's swap ability feeds that loop every turn for free.

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 not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Goblin Welder earns its reputation — artifact-heavy shells run it as a one-drop engine that keeps expensive pieces cycling back into play for the full game. In Legacy, Goblin Welder sees play in prison and artifact combo lists that abuse Blightsteel Colossus or Sundering Titan recursion, though the format's speed means it needs protection to do work. Vintage is legal and occasionally relevant in artifact shells, but the raw power ceiling of that format pushes it to niche status. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all off the table, so if you're not playing one of those three older formats or a Commander variant, this card simply doesn't exist for you.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

1,089 decks
Goblin WelderSewer-veillance Cam

Goblin WelderSewer-veillance Cam

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite recursion of artifact creatures you control; Infinite sacrifice triggers

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680 decks
Goblin WelderIntruder Alarm

Goblin WelderIntruder Alarm

Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Scrap Welder does the closest impression of Goblin Welder at a fraction of the price — it swaps artifacts in the same direction and costs under a dollar, though it requires paying mana equal to the difference in mana values rather than triggering for free. Goblin Engineer is another near-miss that tutors artifacts into the graveyard and recurs them at the cost of sacrificing another, trading Goblin Welder's zero-mana flexibility for a built-in setup tool.

Price Context

Current price

$20.41 premium tier

At $20.41, Goblin Welder sits firmly in premium territory — justified by its unique one-drop status, Legacy and Vintage demand pulling on supply alongside Commander, and the fact that no true functional reprint exists at a lower price point. It's a real investment for a casual table, but in dedicated artifact reanimator builds it's the most efficient card in that role, and the price reflects that.

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