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Krenko, Mob Boss

Legendary Creature — Goblin Warrior2 generic manaRed manaRed mana

The exponential curve hiding inside a 3/3 body. The math is the whole point: tap to make a token for every Goblin you control, and the count you control next turn includes everything you just made. Two Goblins becomes four becomes eight, and the only ceiling is how fast you can untap or how many haste enablers and sacrifice outlets you can chain in a single turn. That self-referencing token engine is what separates this design from the static Goblin lords that came before it; earlier Goblin payoffs buffed a board, but they did not feed themselves. The tradeoff is summoning sickness and the single tap: left alone for a turn, a board built around it grinds to a halt against any sweeper, and the 3/3 body offers no protection of its own. Speed is the problem to solve, either by untapping it (a single extra activation roughly doubles output) or by converting the swarm into damage or mana before the opponent gets a turn back. It is the Goblin tribe's combo piece in the costume of a tribal-aggro finisher, and the reason every Goblin deck that wants to win on a single explosive turn rather than a steady ground game is built to put it onto the battlefield and keep it alive for one rotation.

Krenko, Mob Boss (pfdn)
PFDN · #204srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Create X 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens, where X is the number of Goblins you control.
Legalities

Format Status

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