Sprouting Goblin
Creature — Goblin Druid
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
When this creature enters, if it was kicked, search your library for a land card with a basic land type, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
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, Sacrifice a land: Draw a card.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Edge of Eternities Commander
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #6685
Sprouting Goblin replaces itself with a land every time a Desert enters under your control, turning any Desert-heavy engine into a self-sustaining draw-and-ramp loop for just two mana. The cost is near-nothing; the payoff in the right shell is a one-card engine.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
Hazezon, Shaper of Sand creates Deserts as tokens, which means Sprouting Goblin triggers on every Hazezon activation — you're pulling basics into play and flooding the board simultaneously, which is exactly the snowball Hazezon wants.
Hearthhull, the Worldseed
Hearthhull, the Worldseed cares about land types and Desert synergies, and Sprouting Goblin feeds that engine with a land-per-Desert trigger that keeps the hand and battlefield growing in parallel.
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
Szarel, Genesis Shepherd wants every Desert to do double duty, and Sprouting Goblin obliges — each Desert entry cycles toward the next, letting Szarel dig deeper without burning extra cards.
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 |
Sprouting Goblin is legal in Commander, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through. Competitive non-rotating formats have no consistent Desert package to make it trigger reliably, and a 1/2 body does nothing on its own in those environments. In Commander, where Hazezon, Shaper of Sand and similar Desert-centric generals are the primary home, Sprouting Goblin operates as a low-cost engine piece that scales with the number of Deserts in the deck. Outside of dedicated Desert builds, it's a 1/2 with no text.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Sprouting Goblin is bulk — easy to pick up as a four-of or a Commander singleton without a second thought. Bulk rares that slot into popular commander archetypes can creep up with demand, but nothing about the current Desert meta suggests urgency.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Hazezon, Shaper of Sand
- Hearthhull, the Worldseed
- Szarel, Genesis Shepherd
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.