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Swarming Goblins

Creature — Goblin

When this creature enters, roll a d20.
1—9 | Create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.
10—19 | Create two of those tokens.
20 | Create three of those tokens.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
The List
Price
$0.18
EDHREC rank
#9044
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Swarming Goblins card art
Swarming Goblins drops four 1/1 Goblin tokens the moment it enters — immediate board presence before you ever attack. The five-mana cost is real, but pairing it with Brazen Dwarf turns each token entry into a ping, and Wyll, Blade of Frontiers // Sword Coast Sailor flips four dice off a single cast.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Wyll, Blade of FrontiersSword Coast Sailor

Wyll, Blade of Frontiers // Sword Coast Sailor

51.8% of decks · synergy 0.51

Wyll, Blade of Frontiers // Sword Coast Sailor triggers a die roll for each creature that enters under your control, so Swarming Goblins immediately hands you four separate rolls — that's four chances at his "roll 20" escalation on a single spell.

02
Delina, Wild Mage

Delina, Wild Mage

21.2% of decks · synergy 0.20

Delina, Wild Mage copies creatures on a roll of 15 or higher, and Swarming Goblins gives her four fresh bodies to target while also boosting the raw number of die rolls in the deck that her own ability cares about.

03
Mr. House, President and CEO

Mr. House, President and CEO

18.8% of decks · synergy 0.18

Mr. House, President and CEO rewards rolling dice with Treasure tokens, and Swarming Goblins flooding the board with four tokens at once feeds both the dice-rolling synergies and the artifact-creature count Mr. House wants to leverage.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Swarming Goblins is a Commander card — full stop. In competitive Pauper Goblin lists, five mana for a sorcery-speed token producer is far too slow when the format's Goblin engines are already ending games on turn three or four. Modern and Pioneer Goblin strategies are even more brutal about tempo, so it doesn't register there either. In Commander, the calculus flips: five mana is acceptable when the payoff is four bodies that simultaneously trigger Brazen Dwarf, Wyll, or token-doubling effects, and the singleton format means redundancy pressure doesn't apply the same way.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.18 bulk tier

At $0.18, Swarming Goblins is deep bulk — it costs less than a sleeve. That price is stable; demand is narrow enough that no sudden spike is coming, but Commander players building dice-roll or Goblin token synergy decks will keep it from hitting zero.

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