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Goblin Sky Raider

Creature — Goblin Warrior2 generic manaRed mana

A flying Goblin reads like a contradiction, and that small joke is most of what this card is built to be. Goblins are the archetypal ground swarm: low to the dirt, wide rather than tall, winning through token volume and haste. Putting one in the air gives a tribal aggro deck a body it otherwise lacks, a way to push the last points through a clogged board without relying on a sacrifice payoff or the next ground-pounder. The 1/2 frame is deliberately modest: it survives a one-toughness ping, blocks an evasive one-drop, and chips for a point in the air, but it is filler with a job rather than a card you build toward. What it offers a tribal deck is not rate; it is a creature type stapled to a keyword the rest of the team will never have. That makes it the kind of common that rounds out a curve and feeds anything counting Goblins or rewarding attackers, while making no demands on its supporting cast. The design space here is narrow on purpose: give the swarm one set of wings, price it so it never crowds out the better Goblins, and let flavor (the goblin who built a glider and somehow lived to fly it) carry the rest.

Goblin Sky Raider (10e)
10E · #210★common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

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