Grotag Night-Runner
Creature — Goblin Rogue
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Jumpstart 2022
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #20049
Grotag Night-Runner trades a card on every unblocked hit — a repeatable impulse draw stapled to a 2/1 with menace for three mana. The rate is real in goblin go-wide shells where evasion comes cheap, but it's a do-nothing without combat damage, so it earns its slot only when you can reliably connect.
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 |
Grotag Night-Runner is a Commander card through and through — the effect scales over a long game, and goblin tribal synergies are abundant in the format's red decks. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Legacy, a 2/1 for three that requires combat damage to generate card advantage doesn't clear the bar when faster, unconditional draw exists at every price point. Pioneer is similarly uninterested. Grotag Night-Runner is at its best in a multiplayer pod where opponents are stretched thin, your board is wide, and menace turns into genuine evasion instead of a minor nuisance.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Grotag Night-Runner sits firmly in bulk territory — you're adding it to a deck for free out of a trade binder or commons box. Bulk rares rarely move on casual demand alone, so don't expect price appreciation; just run it if the slot fits.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.