Green Goblin, Revenant
Legendary Creature — Goblin Human Villain
Flying, deathtouch
Whenever Green Goblin attacks, discard a card. Then draw a card for each card you've discarded this turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Marvel's Spider-Man
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #9749
Green Goblin, Revenant drops into play and immediately pressures opponents with evasion and a damage-dealing trigger that rewards the kind of aggressive, counter-stacking gameplan Norman Osborn decks already want. The mana cost is real, but the upside justifies it — this is a payoff card, not a support piece.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Norman Osborn
Norman Osborn is the natural home for Green Goblin, Revenant — Norman's counter-proliferation and villain-tribal synergies turn Green Goblin from a standalone threat into a recursive engine piece that keeps generating value as the board develops.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Green Goblin, Revenant belongs in Norman Osborn builds and any shell that can reliably trigger its damage clause — it's a focused card that rewards correct deckbuilding rather than slotting into anything. In Modern and Pioneer, the competition at its mana cost is brutal and Green Goblin, Revenant doesn't have the raw stats or immediate board impact to compete with the format's best threats. Legacy and Vintage are nonstarters for the same reason — powered environments have no patience for conditional value creatures. Standard is where casual singleton players may explore it, but its ceiling there is still tied to whether a dedicated archetype emerges.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Green Goblin, Revenant is pure bulk — easy to pick up without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow synergy profiles rarely climb without a breakout tournament showing, so treat this as a cheap role-player for the right Commander deck, not a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Norman Osborn
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.