Warren Torchmaster
Creature — Goblin Warrior
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may blight 1. When you do, target creature gains haste until end of turn. (To blight 1, put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #15471
Warren Torchmaster lands and immediately threatens to deal damage equal to the number of Goblins you control every time it attacks — that's a closing threat stapled to a three-mana body. Grub, Storied Matriarch decks run it because the token generation snowballs fast enough to make that trigger lethal in short order.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Grub, Storied Matriarch
Grub, Storied Matriarch churns out Insect tokens that can be sacrificed or buffed, and Warren Torchmaster converts that growing board into a direct-damage clock — the two cards read as a single engine once both are in play.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Warren Torchmaster belongs squarely in Goblin tribal builds where a wide board is already the plan — the damage trigger scales hard and punishes anyone who lets the token count climb past five or six. Competitive 60-card formats haven't found room for it; Goblin shells in Modern and Pioneer want either faster aggro pieces or specific combo scaffolding, and a three-mana creature that requires a board presence to close games doesn't fit that priority. Legacy Goblins is similarly uninterested — the format's threat density is too high for a card this dependent on momentum. Warren Torchmaster is a Commander card in practice, even if the format restrictions don't say so.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Warren Torchmaster is deep bulk — buy a playset for under a dollar and don't think twice. Bulk rares with narrow tribal homes rarely climb unless a new pushed commander drags them up, so treat this as a low-cost pickup for Goblin lists rather than a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Grub, Storied Matriarch
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.