The Great Goblin
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Whenever you put one or more counters on a Goblin, Orc, or Army you control, The Great Goblin deals 2 damage to target opponent.
Whenever another Goblin, Orc, or Army you control dies, exile the top card of your library. You may play it until the end of your next turn.
Combos with The Great Goblin
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Heliod, Sun-Crowned Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures
- Infinite damage
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Mortuary Skirk Prospector Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Maskwood Nexus The Red Terror Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite damage
- Mortuary Pitiless Plunderer Goblin Bombardment Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Mortuary Impulsive Pilferer Goblin Bombardment Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite damage
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Mortuary Prosper, Tome-Bound Goblin Bombardment Infinite
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
Showing the 6 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
One official ruling, as Wizards published it.
- 2026-06-29
You pay all costs and follow all timing rules for cards played this way. For example, if the exiled card is a land card, you may play it only during your main phase while the stack is empty and only if you have an available land play remaining.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes The Great Goblin, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sauron, the Dark Lord | 1 | 5 | 0% |
Colors it shows up in
- Grixis 1 deck
Every version of The Great Goblin
2 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 genuinely publishes none for some of them.
The Hobbit
- Normal
- $0.64
- Foil
- $0.90
Inverted
The Hobbit
- Normal
- $4.53
- Foil
- $9.12
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for The Great Goblin — a name search across every version, for 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.