Goliath Hatchery
Enchantment
When this enchantment enters, create two 3/3 green Phyrexian Beast creature tokens with toxic 1. (Players dealt combat damage by them also get a poison counter.)
Corrupted — At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent has three or more poison counters, choose a creature you control, then draw cards equal to its total toxic value.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Phyrexia: All Will Be One
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #14577
Goliath Hatchery drops a Phyrexian Mite token for every two mana you put into it, meaning a six-mana investment yields three poison-spreading bodies with toxic 1 and no blocking restriction on opponents. The cost is steep for competitive tables, but in midrange poison builds helmed by Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa, that mana sink doubles as both a threat and a proliferate trigger waiting to happen.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa
Ixhel, Scion of Atraxa wants a steady drip of toxic creatures to push opponents toward ten poison counters, and Goliath Hatchery delivers a scalable wave of Phyrexian Mites on a single card — exactly the kind of mana sink that closes out a stalled poison game.
Vishgraz, the Doomhive
Vishgraz, the Doomhive rewards flooding the board with Phyrexian Mites, and Goliath Hatchery is one of the most efficient ways to manufacture a pile of them in one activation — the more counters your opponents have, the bigger Vishgraz enters, and Hatchery accelerates the whole clock.
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 |
Goliath Hatchery is a Commander card through and through — the X-costed token engine only reaches its ceiling in a format where games go long enough to spend eight or ten mana on a single activation. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but irrelevant; no competitive shell wants a slow enchantment that produces 1/1s. Commander is where the math works: ramp-heavy poison decks can realistically pour five or six mana into it a turn after it resolves, and the resulting Mite tokens feed proliferate synergies immediately.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Goliath Hatchery is bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice if you're building poison. Bulk enchantments with narrow tribal-adjacent appeal rarely climb unless a new commander supercharges the archetype, so expect the price to stay in this range.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.