Festering Goblin
Tenth Edition 143 • common
- Set
- Tenth Edition
- Collector number
- 143
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Thomas M. Baxa
- Market price
- $0.24
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 first introduced during the Urza block in 1999 and became a staple of early Magic: The Gathering gameplay. Its inclusion in the Tenth Edition core set in 2007 served to reintroduce classic, aggressive low-cost creature mechanics to a newer generation of players, cementing its role as an efficient, sacrifice-oriented threat in black deck archetypes.
The artwork for this specific Tenth Edition printing was created by Thomas M. Baxa, whose signature grotesque and visceral style emphasizes the creature's decaying, pestilent nature. Baxa, a long-time contributor to the game, aimed to visually represent the card's mechanical function—dying in combat to weaken an opponent's creature—through the goblin's unsettling and fragile appearance.
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