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Goblin Spelunkers

Creature — Goblin Warrior2 generic manaRed mana

Landwalk is the conditional evasion red has reached for since the earliest sets, and few targets are as forgiving as the most common land in the game. Against a deck running Mountains, those two power slip through unblocked every turn; against any other base, you are left holding a vanilla Goblin Warrior with a dead rider. That conditionality carries the whole design: the body costs more than its stats justify, and the surplus is paid into evasion you only collect when the opponent shares your color. The effect reads as upside on the table and as liability at the deckbuilding stage, because you cannot know in advance whether the player across from you keeps a Mountain. The flavor is tidy in the way landwalk often is: spelunkers know the mountain passes, so they cannot be stopped on terrain they understand. Mechanically it belongs to the broad family of color-hosed landwalkers (islandwalk, swampwalk, forestwalk) that tied evasion to the enemy's mana base, an idea that has largely given way to keywords like menace and flying, which grant their evasion regardless of what the other player happened to draw.

Goblin Spelunkers (7ed)
7ED · #193common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $7.10
Oracle Text

Rules text

Mountainwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Mountain.)
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

Other printings

2 sets
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