Festering Goblin
Onslaught 148 • common
- Set
- Onslaught
- Collector number
- 148
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Thomas M. Baxa
- Market price
- $0.19
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 was released in 2002 as part of the Onslaught expansion for Magic: The Gathering. As a common creature, it was designed as a low-cost, tactical utility piece for the Black color identity, intended to offer players a way to trade for an opponent's early-game creature while simultaneously weakening a target for -1/-1 upon its death. This 'death trigger' mechanic was a signature theme for the set, emphasizing the cyclical nature of life and decay within the game's lore.
The card features artwork by Thomas M. Baxa, whose illustration style captures the grotesque and visceral aesthetic common to the set's depiction of goblins corrupted by magical forces. Baxa’s work on this piece was received as a quintessential example of early 2000s fantasy horror art for the game, effectively conveying the theme of a decaying creature that remains a threat even after being defeated in combat.
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