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Green Goblin, Nemesis
Legendary Creature — Goblin Human Villain · {2}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander
What Green Goblin, Nemesis 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 · discardWhenever you discard a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on target Goblin you control.
- Triggered ability · discardWhenever you discard a land card, create a tapped Treasure token.
- Keyword · flyingflying
What a Green Goblin, Nemesis deck needs
Plays as goblin typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- artifact and Treasure payoffs (it makes Treasures, Clues or Food on repeat)
- looting and discard outlets (it rewards your own discards)
- +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
- goblin creatures (its text counts them)
The Green Goblin, Nemesis deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 10× Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 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
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Green Goblin, Nemesis
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.
Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
- Geier Reach Sanitarium0 mana
- Fomori Vault0 mana
- Spymaster's Vault0 mana
- Cryptbreaker1 mana
- Pip-Boy 30001 mana
- Tortured Existence1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Artist's Talent2 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Goblin Welder1 mana
- Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
- Skirk Prospector1 mana
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Dragonlord's Servant2 mana
- Goblin Engineer2 mana
- Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei2 mana
- Grenzo, Havoc Raiser2 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain2 mana
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Scheming Aspirant2 mana
- Cacophony Scamp1 mana
- Gallia, the Merrymaker2 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Green Goblin, Nemesis
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Green Goblin, Nemesis is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Green Goblin, Nemesis + Tortured Existence + Crystalline Crawler + Conspiracy1 decks
- Green Goblin, Nemesis + Tortured Existence + Crystalline Crawler + Stalactite Dagger1 decks
- Green Goblin, Nemesis + Tortured Existence + Crystalline Crawler + Maskwood Nexus1 decks
- Green Goblin, Nemesis + Dryad Arbor + Tortured Existence + Archelos, Lagoon Mystic + Anointed Procession
- Green Goblin, Nemesis + Tortured Existence + Crystalline Crawler + Rukarumel, Biologist
- Green Goblin, Nemesis + Tortured Existence + Crystalline Crawler + Leyline Of Transformation
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