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Slobad, Iron Goblin

Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Goblin Artificer

{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Add an amount of {R} equal to the sacrificed artifact's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifacts.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
rare
Set
Phyrexia: All Will Be One Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#10926
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Slobad, Iron Goblin card art
Slobad, Iron Goblin turns every artifact sacrifice into mana, which makes him one of the most efficient mana-acceleration pieces in red artifact decks — pair him with Thornbite Staff and a sac outlet and you're generating absurd amounts of colorless mana in a single turn. The cost is real: he needs a board of artifact tokens or cheap fodder to do anything, so he's dead weight in an empty-board scenario, but in Daretti, Scrap Savant builds that's almost never the situation.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Daretti, Scrap Savant

Daretti, Scrap Savant

21.2% of decks · synergy 0.20

Daretti, Scrap Savant's game plan revolves around filling the graveyard and recurring artifacts, which means there's always cheap artifact fodder on board for Slobad, Iron Goblin to convert into mana — letting you recast threats or activate Daretti's abilities ahead of schedule.

02
Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant

20.1% of decks · synergy 0.19

Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant wants as many artifacts in play as possible, and Slobad, Iron Goblin converts that critical mass into burst mana the turn Chiss-Goria hits — letting you chain additional artifacts into play off a single swing.

03
Imskir Iron-Eater

Imskir Iron-Eater

16.4% of decks · synergy 0.16

Imskir Iron-Eater rewards sacrificing artifacts for card draw and life, and Slobad, Iron Goblin stacks directly on top of that plan by also converting those same sacrifices into mana — so each artifact you feed to the engine pulls double duty.

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

Commander is where Slobad, Iron Goblin belongs — the singleton format's long games and artifact-heavy archetypes give him the board state and time he needs to do real work. In Modern and Legacy he's technically legal but has no meaningful role; red artifact decks in those formats want faster, more self-contained engines, and Slobad's payoff requires too many moving pieces to compete at that pace. Pioneer offers a wider card pool for artifact synergies but still lacks the critical mass of token-generating artifacts that makes him shine. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where he could make an appearance as a signature spell complement in a red artifact shell, though his power level there depends entirely on the specific commander pairing.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Slobad, Iron GoblinCogwork AssemblerThornbite Staff

Slobad, Iron GoblinCogwork AssemblerThornbite Staff

Infinite copies of artifacts you control; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce; Infinite red mana that can only be spent to cast artifact spells or to activate abilities of artifacts; Infinite sacrifice triggers

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Pricing data for Slobad, Iron Goblin isn't available here, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current number before buying. Given his strong inclusion rates in popular Daretti, Scrap Savant and Chiss-Goria, Forge Tyrant builds, he's worth picking up whenever the price feels reasonable for the role he plays.

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