Rummaging Goblin
Creature — Goblin Rogue
, Discard a card: Draw a card.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Magic 2013
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #9704
Rummaging Goblin trades a card and a tap for a fresh card — looting on a 1/1 body that costs three mana to deploy. That rate is too slow for most formats, but in dedicated discard and graveyard shells it earns its slot as a repeatable engine.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Rummaging Goblin slots into Goblin tribal lists and graveyard-value decks that want a repeatable, low-investment discard outlet — think Syr Konrad, the Grim or Prossh, Skyraider of Kher shells that benefit from fueling the yard every turn. Pauper is its most competitive home, where the commons card pool makes repeatable looting genuinely scarce and the Goblin type occasionally matters for synergy. In Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, Rummaging Goblin is outclassed by cheaper, faster looters and sees no meaningful play. Vintage and Oathbreaker follow the same logic — legal, but irrelevant at those power levels.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Rummaging Goblin is deep bulk — buy a playset for the price of a sleeve. There is no realistic scenario where this appreciates; it's a common with narrow application, and you should treat it as a freely swappable role-player rather than a card worth tracking.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.