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Hobgoblin, Mantled Marauder
Legendary Creature — Goblin Human Villain · {1}{R} · Red commander
Flying, haste
Whenever you discard a card, Hobgoblin gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
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What Hobgoblin, Mantled Marauder 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 card, Hobgoblin gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · hastehaste
What a Hobgoblin, Mantled Marauder deck needs
Plays as self-discard. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- looting and discard outlets (it rewards your own discards)
The Hobgoblin, Mantled Marauder deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 20× Lets YOU discard on demand — looting, rummaging, discard costs — for a commander that rewards your own discards
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Hobgoblin, Mantled Marauder
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
- Pip-Boy 30001 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Artist's Talent2 mana
- Collector's Vault2 mana
- Inti, Seneschal of the Sun2 mana
- Key to the City2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Goblin Recruiter2 mana
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Goblin Matron3 mana
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Gamble1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Apocalypse5 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 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
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana