Festering Goblin
Ninth Edition 130★ • common
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Collector number
- 130★
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Thomas M. Baxa
- Finish
- Foil
What it does
When this creature dies, target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
In life, it was a fetid, disease-ridden thing. In death, not much changed.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Festering Goblin first appeared in the Onslaught expansion in 2002, designed as a mechanical staple for black-aligned decks that rewarded players for trading creatures in combat. The Ninth Edition version, released in 2005, brought the card into the modern frame design, serving as part of the core set's effort to provide reliable, low-cost utility creatures for newer players and limited formats.
The artwork for this iteration was rendered by Thomas M. Baxa, a prolific illustrator known for his contributions to the darker aesthetic of the game. Baxa was tasked with capturing the grotesque, parasitic nature of the creature, utilizing his signature visceral style to emphasize the goblin's decaying physical state and its lethal post-mortem trigger.
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