War-Torch Goblin
Creature — Goblin Warrior
, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to target blocking creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #26155
War-Torch Goblin trades itself to deal 1 damage to any target — a one-mana 1/1 with a built-in sacrifice trigger that slots cleanly into any deck that wants bodies on the board and ways to cash them in. The effect is narrow but the price is right: one mana, one damage, one sacrifice, and you never feel the loss.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, War-Torch Goblin earns its slot specifically in Goblin tribal and sacrifice-value shells — Krenko, Mob Boss and Zada, Hedron Grinder lists want cheap bodies, and the sacrifice rider turns any chump blocker into a last-gasp ping. In Pauper, where commons compete on raw efficiency, it sits at the low end of playability — the 1 damage on sacrifice is real but rarely enough to matter against the format's top threats. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in War-Torch Goblin; the effect doesn't clear the bar in formats where every slot is contested at a much higher power ceiling.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, War-Torch Goblin is pure bulk — you're buying a playset for the cost of a pack of gum. It holds that floor reliably; there's no demand spike coming for a vanilla sacrifice trigger at this power level, but you're also never overpaying.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.