Mad Auntie
Creature — Goblin Shaman
Other Goblin creatures you control get +1/+1.
: Regenerate another target Goblin.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Junior Super Series
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #10361
Mad Auntie puts a +1/+1 counter on every Goblin you control at the start of your upkeep — a free anthem effect that compounds fast in any creature-dense Goblin list. The 2/2 body for three mana is acceptable, and Wort, Boggart Auntie's recursion safety net makes losing her to removal far less punishing than it looks.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Wort, Boggart Auntie
Wort, Boggart Auntie is the natural home — the commander's triggered ability can return Mad Auntie from the graveyard, so removal just becomes a minor setback while the cumulative counters keep accruing each upkeep across repeated deployments.
Grub, Storied Matriarch
Grub, Storied Matriarch rewards going wide with Goblins, and Mad Auntie's steady stream of +1/+1 counters turns each creature into a larger threat before Grub can leverage them for additional value.
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
Grenzo, Dungeon Warden churns Goblins out of the bottom of the library, and Mad Auntie converts that raw volume into a board where every creature is growing faster than opponents can trade into it.
Shattergang Brothers
Shattergang Brothers needs expendable creatures to feed its sacrifice outlets, and Mad Auntie ensures the Goblins being sacrificed have grown large enough to threaten combat before they go, keeping the pressure on while the engine runs.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Mad Auntie does her best work — a Goblin tribal deck runs enough targets to make the upkeep trigger genuinely threatening, and the multiplayer clock is slow enough for the counters to stack into a real advantage. In Legacy and Vintage she's legal but outclassed; Goblin strategies in those formats want explosiveness and redundancy over incremental scaling, so she rarely makes the cut against faster tribal payoffs. Modern is the same story — the format is too efficient and the mana cost too steep relative to what Goblin lists can do with three mana. Mad Auntie is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the current market rate. As a niche tribal lord with a narrow home, Mad Auntie has historically stayed affordable — worth picking up before building any serious Goblin commander list.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Wort, Boggart Auntie
- Grub, Storied Matriarch
- Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
- Shattergang Brothers
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.