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Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted

Legendary Creature — Goblin Noble · {3}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander

Whenever Great Goblin enters or attacks, amass Goblins 3. (Put three +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Goblin. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Goblin Army creature token first.) Armies you control have trample.

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What Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Great Goblin enters or attacks, amass Goblins 3.
• Static ability · keyword_grantArmies you control have trample.

What a Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted deck needs

Plays as amass. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• amass cards and Army payoffs (each enter or attack amasses Goblins 3; Armies have trample)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 8× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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