Goblin Dark-Dwellers card art

Goblin Dark-Dwellers

Creature — Goblin MV 5

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

When this creature enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Rulings

6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2016-01-22

    If an instant or sorcery card you cast this way goes to a zone other than exile or a graveyard, perhaps because one of its abilities says to put it into its owner's hand, it won't be exiled. This is true even if the card would be put into a graveyard later that turn.

  • 2016-01-22

    You cast the card during the resolution of the enters-the-battlefield ability, not later in the turn. If it's a sorcery card, ignore the timing restrictions based on it being a sorcery card. Other timing restrictions, such as "Cast [this card] only during combat," must be followed.

  • 2016-01-22

    If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't pay alternative costs such as surge costs. You can pay additional costs. If the card has mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.

  • 2016-01-22

    If you can't cast the target instant or sorcery card, perhaps because there are no legal targets available, or if you choose not to cast it, it will remain in your graveyard.

  • 2016-01-22

    If an instant or sorcery card you cast this way is countered, it will be exiled.

  • 2016-01-22

    If the instant or sorcery card has X in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as its value.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Goblin Dark-Dwellers, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Krenko, Mob Boss 1 0 —
Sauron, Lord of the Rings 1 0 —
Zada, Hedron Grinder 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Red 2 decks
  • Grixis 1 deck

Every version of Goblin Dark-Dwellers

7 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Goblin Dark-Dwellers. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.