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Goblin Settler

Creature — Goblin3 generic manaRed mana

Stone Rain stapled to a body, which is the entire pitch: the same single-land destruction red has run since the earliest sets, except here the spell leaves a 1/1 behind and survives as a permanent you can reuse. That body is what gives the card its real ceiling. On its own it is a slow, four-mana way to set an opponent back one land, well behind the curve of plain land destruction. Attach a blink or recursion engine and the math changes entirely: every flicker is another land in the graveyard, and a creature that destroys a land on entry is exactly the kind of trigger those engines were built to abuse. The Goblin type line is incidental to the function but not to the play pattern, since the decks most interested in repeatable enters-the-battlefield value tend to find sacrifice fodder and reanimation targets cheaply. The design tension is honest: red gets land denial that recurs, but it pays for the privilege by stapling the effect to a fragile creature and a clunky rate, so the card only justifies its inclusion once the rest of the deck is doing the heavy lifting.

Goblin Settler (sld)
SLD · #1076rare
Pricing
Normal: $2.86
Foil: $2.67
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters, destroy target land.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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