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Goblin Firestarter

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Goblin Firestarter

Creature — Goblin

this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target. only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

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Commander: LegalModern: Not legal

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Tags and classifications

Card attributes are distinct from extracted ability facts and inferred themes. AI themes and predicted tags are suggestions, not rules text.

Mana costs

× 1

Creature kinds

Goblin

Color identity

R

Mana value

Mana value 0–1

Theme tags

Burn

Timing tags

Timing Sorcery

Type tags

Creature

Predicted tags are currently unavailable.

Ability classification

Published revision
482a4a8d-910a-4262-8142-5f79ac2d4159
Catalog cards
34,605
Classified
34,605
Complete
1,684
Partial
31,626
Unsupported
1,295

partial Extraction abilities-3

Incomplete card classification: unmodeled effect: It deals 1 damage to any target; unmodeled effect: Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Ability 1

activatedpartial

Sacrifice this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Active zone
battlefield
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
Sacrifice 1 self
Requirements
All of: Unsupported condition: unmodeled effect: It deals 1 damage to any target; unmodeled effect: Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.
Source span
0–120

Functional categories

cadence.repeatabledelivery.activatedeconomic.consumereconomic.convertereconomic.outleteconomic.producer

Effects

payment · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • consumes battlefield_creature · self self · amount 1 · battlefield → unknown zone
    No additional explicit requirement.
  • produces death · self self · amount 1 · battlefield → graveyard
    No additional explicit requirement.
  • produces graveyard_creature · self self · amount 1 · battlefield → graveyard
    nontoken: true

Incomplete: unmodeled effect: It deals 1 damage to any target; unmodeled effect: Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Source evidence
Source
oracle
Revision
b121c4dec119af8cea0d66c3fdae5986937dec53b80dbddc27d60e3a5264924c
Rule
abilities-3
Confidence
Not calibrated

Sacrifice this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

Ability 2

castcomplete

Cast Goblin Firestarter

Active zone
hand
Trigger
Unavailable
Cost
Mana {R}
Requirements
All of: timing: sorcery
Source span
0–0

No functional category evidence is published for this ability.

Effects

cast · immediate

No additional explicit requirement.

  • requires mana · self R · amount 1
    action kind: creature_spell
  • produces creature_cast · self creature · amount 1 · hand → stack
    No additional explicit requirement.
Source evidence
Source
scryfall
Revision
b121c4dec119af8cea0d66c3fdae5986937dec53b80dbddc27d60e3a5264924c
Rule
card-type-cast-event
Confidence
Not calibrated

Creature — Goblin

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Text uses cosine resemblance (−1 to 1) between 384-number embeddings when available, or lexical fallback otherwise. Tags use Jaccard overlap of approved tags and AI themes, excluding predicted tags and separately scored color/cost tags. Color compares W/U/B/R/G identity. Mana cost combines mana-value proximity, 1 / (1 + the difference), with mana-symbol overlap. Tags, color, and cost range from 0 to 1.

Model: bge-small-en-v1.5. 0 of 34,605 catalog cards currently have embeddings.

Card relationships

Published revision
482a4a8d-910a-4262-8142-5f79ac2d4159
Catalog cards
34,605
Classified
34,605
Complete
1,684
Partial
31,626
Unsupported
1,295

Scoring revision: relationships-3. Loves, hates, neutral, mixed, conditional, and unknown remain distinct results.

Potential relationships

Evaluated 512 of 5,151 indexed candidates. Showing 2 of 2 bounded tied matches; alphabetical within ties.

Arlinn, the Pack's Hope // Arlinn, the Moon's Fury

Conditional loves

Legendary Planeswalker — Arlinn // Legendary Planeswalker — Arlinn · Mana cost: Unavailable

Perspective
same controller
Status
conditional
Signed compatibility
1.000
Positive impact
1.000
Negative impact
0.000
Mechanical evidence

  1. Source ability f227ce07-7e96-4a36-ab7c-9be6e777d649:1:1:abilities-3:862db3676025b9337f3422da58db16b6e0106aa2cb33c42e27d3b8cad1e4eba2 supplies the exact mana input used by target ability 18279733-5568-427c-b0a2-044bca28f688:0:cast:abilities-3:b121c4dec119af8cea0d66c3fdae5986937dec53b80dbddc27d60e3a5264924c.

    enables · mana · impact 1.000 · conditional

    Conditions: source ability requires limit=loyalty_once_per_turn; source ability requires timing=sorcery; target ability requires timing=sorcery; target resource requires action_kind=creature_spell

    Source evidence

    Source ability: f227ce07-7e96-4a36-ab7c-9be6e777d649:1:1:abilities-3:862db3676025b9337f3422da58db16b6e0106aa2cb33c42e27d3b8cad1e4eba2

    +2: Add {R}{G}.

    Target ability: 18279733-5568-427c-b0a2-044bca28f688:0:cast:abilities-3:b121c4dec119af8cea0d66c3fdae5986937dec53b80dbddc27d60e3a5264924c

    Cast Goblin Firestarter

Beast Whisperer

Conditional loves

Creature — Elf Druid · Mana cost: {2}{G}{G}

Perspective
same controller
Status
conditional
Signed compatibility
0.500
Positive impact
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Negative impact
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Mechanical evidence

  1. Source ability 18279733-5568-427c-b0a2-044bca28f688:0:cast:abilities-3:b121c4dec119af8cea0d66c3fdae5986937dec53b80dbddc27d60e3a5264924c supplies the exact creature_cast input used by target ability 5da7eea8-bb9e-47ce-a554-8a1ee058bd7a:0:0:abilities-3:6eb86471c3f9cd5b9a4cabdac0d776494e660577d8e0c390b89caa946db9a4f6.

    amplifies · creature_cast · impact 0.500 · conditional

    Conditions: source ability requires timing=sorcery

    Source evidence

    Source ability: 18279733-5568-427c-b0a2-044bca28f688:0:cast:abilities-3:b121c4dec119af8cea0d66c3fdae5986937dec53b80dbddc27d60e3a5264924c

    Cast Goblin Firestarter

    Target ability: 5da7eea8-bb9e-47ce-a554-8a1ee058bd7a:0:0:abilities-3:6eb86471c3f9cd5b9a4cabdac0d776494e660577d8e0c390b89caa946db9a4f6

    Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.

Potential opposing interactions

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No relationship candidates are available for this view.

Printings
SetLanguageCollectorReleasedRarityPrice
Masters Edition IVen1202011-01-10common—
Portal Second Ageit961998-06-24uncommon—
Portal Second Agees961998-06-24uncommon—
Portal Second Agefr961998-06-24uncommon—
Portal Second Ageen961998-06-24uncommon$0.74
Portal Second Agede961998-06-24uncommon—
Portal Second Ageja961998-06-24uncommon—
Portal Second Agept961998-06-24uncommon—