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Goblin Trenches

Enchantment1 generic manaRed manaWhite mana

Lands rarely die in a way that does anything for their owner, and that is the gap this enchantment fills: it turns the manabase itself into a token engine that keeps producing long after the spells run out. The exchange is deliberately patient. Two generic mana and a land buys two bodies, so it is a slow grind rather than a burst, and every activation shrinks the very resource that fuels it. That self-cannibalizing rate is what keeps it fair: you cannot empty your hand into it, and the more you use it the closer you drift to running out of fuel. What makes it a build-around rather than a curiosity is the company it keeps. Land recursion, fetch effects that overload the graveyard, and anything that wants to sacrifice creatures all find a willing partner here, because the tokens are renewable and the lands feed both halves of the loop. As an Apocalypse card it sits in that set's project of giving the enemy-color pairs their own identity, and the Boros expression of that brief was an attrition engine: turn the part of the deck that does nothing in the late game (excess land) into a steady drip of expendable attackers and blockers. It rewards a deck willing to treat its own mana as ammunition.

Goblin Trenches (apc)
APC · #104rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.48
Foil: $9.75
Oracle Text

Rules text

2 generic mana, Sacrifice a land: Create two 1/1 red and white Goblin Soldier creature tokens.
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
Legal
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
Legal
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