Goblin Lackey
Goblin Lackey: Creature - Goblin, Urza's Saga. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {R}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Creature - Goblin
- Colour identity
- Red (R)
- Power / toughness
- 1/1
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Saga (USG)
- Released
- 1998-10-12
- Collector number
- 190
- Artist
- Jerry Tiritilli
- Commander rank
- 4,892 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Goblin Lackey
Goblin Lackey is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon red creature from Urza's Saga (USG), an expansion set released in October 1998. It is collector number 190 in that set, with art by Jerry Tiritilli. It costs {R} (one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. It is a 1/1 creature. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and PreDH. It has been printed in 5 sets, from Urza's Saga (1998) to Mystery Booster 2 (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $21.62 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-03).
Card text
Whenever this creature deals damage to a player, you may put a Goblin permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.
All bark, someone else's bite.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $21.62 (as of 2026-11-03).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Goblin Lackey by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Goblin Lackey
Goblin Lackey has been printed in 5 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #2425 | Rare | 2026 |
| Mystery Booster 2 (MB2) #192 | Uncommon | 2024 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1311 | Rare | 2023 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #1311★ | Rare | 2023 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #20 | Rare | 2019 |
| Vintage Masters (VMA) #167 | Rare | 2014 |
| From the Vault: Exiled (V09) #5 | Mythic | 2009 |
Official rulings
One official ruling applies to Goblin Lackey.
- A Goblin permanent card is an artifact, creature, land, and/or enchantment card with the creature type "Goblin". Usually such cards will be creatures in addition to any other types, but they may be kindred instead. For example, you could put Boggart Shenanigans onto the battlefield with this effect.
Similar cards
Other creature cards with a red colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Goblin Lackey is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.