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Rundvelt Hordemaster

Creature — Goblin Warrior

Other Goblins you control get +1/+1.
Whenever this creature or another Goblin you control dies, exile the top card of your library. If it's a Goblin creature card, you may cast that card until the end of your next turn.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Dominaria United Promos
Price
$3.81
EDHREC rank
#4768
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Rundvelt Hordemaster card art
Rundvelt Hordemaster is the resilience layer Goblin decks have always needed — every Goblin that dies replaces itself with a card exiled face-down, and a two-mana sacrifice like Skirk Prospector turns that into a continuous draw engine at instant speed. The two-mana cost means it lands before your critical threats and stays relevant once Muxus, Goblin Grandee has flooded the board with bodies that are about to trade.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Muxus, Goblin Grandee

Muxus, Goblin Grandee

69.2% of decks · synergy 0.62

Muxus, Goblin Grandee dumps a wave of Goblins onto the battlefield at once, and Rundvelt Hordemaster converts any of those that die in the ensuing combat or to removal into fresh resources, extending the very refill Muxus just provided.

02
Wort, Boggart Auntie

Wort, Boggart Auntie

43.2% of decks · synergy 0.42

Wort, Boggart Auntie already wants you deep in the Goblin tribe, and Rundvelt Hordemaster turns every removal spell aimed at your board into a card-neutral trade, giving the deck a grind-back mechanism Wort's recursion alone can't supply.

03
General Kreat, the Boltbringer

General Kreat, the Boltbringer

47.8% of decks · synergy 0.41

General Kreat, the Boltbringer rewards you for running a high density of Goblins, and Rundvelt Hordemaster slots in as the deck's insurance policy — when Kreat's threats eat removal, the Hordemaster converts each death into future fuel.

04

Grub, Storied Matriarch

41.2% of decks · synergy 0.40

Grub, Storied Matriarch cares about Goblins entering and leaving the battlefield, and Rundvelt Hordemaster's death trigger feeds that loop by exiling fallen creatures for later replaying, keeping the graveyard-to-hand pipeline pressurized.

05
Krenko, Mob Boss

Krenko, Mob Boss

43.9% of decks · synergy 0.37

Krenko, Mob Boss produces so many tokens that opponents are incentivized to wipe the board, and Rundvelt Hordemaster turns each mass removal event into a top-of-library card bank, often leaving you with more gas than you started with.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Rundvelt Hordemaster is a staple in any red Goblin deck — the passive death trigger scales with the size of your board and punishes every piece of targeted or sweeper removal your opponents throw. In Modern and Legacy, it sees niche play in Goblin tribal lists where the card advantage it generates over a long game compensates for the fact that it doesn't pressure the board on its own. Pioneer Goblin shells can find a home for it, though the format's faster clock makes the payoff slower to materialize than in older formats. Vintage has the raw power elsewhere to make Rundvelt Hordemaster feel marginal outside of dedicated tribal builds.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.81 cheap tier

At $3.81, Rundvelt Hordemaster sits in the budget-staple tier — cheap enough to slot into any Goblin build without a second thought, and consistently demanded across enough tribal commanders that the price has a solid floor. It's not going lower while Goblin tribal remains one of the most-built archetypes in Commander.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.