Card

Goblin Researcher

Creature — Goblin Wizard


When Goblin Researcher enters, exile the top card of your library. During any turn you attacked with Goblin Researcher, you may play that card.

Slonk was struck by lightning twenty-seven times before he got the idea. Another forty-three hits and he'd perfected it.


  Foundations Jumpstart (J25)
#559, Common

Illustrated by: Izzy

Not Legal Alchemy BO1
Not Legal Standard BO1
Not Legal Brawl
Not Legal Explorer BO1
Not Legal Historic BO1
Not Legal Historic Brawl
Not Legal Modern
Not Legal Pioneer
Not Legal Traditional Standard
Not Legal Timeless BO1
Not Legal Traditional Alchemy
Not Legal Traditional Explorer
Not Legal Traditional Historic
Not Legal Traditional Timeless

Rulings

  • 2022-12-02
    The card Goblin Researcher exiles is exiled face up.
  • 2022-12-02
    You can play the exiled card if Goblin Researcher attacked and is still in combat, has left combat, has left the battlefield, or even if combat is over.
  • 2022-12-02
    If you control more than one card named Goblin Researcher, each one's effect is independent from the other. Specifically, attacking with one will not allow you to play the card exiled by the other.
  • 2022-12-02
    Goblin Researcher's effect doesn't change when you can play the exiled card. For example, if you exile a sorcery card, you can cast it only during your main phase when the stack is empty.
  • 2022-12-02
    If you exile a land card with Goblin Researcher's enters-the-battlefield ability, you may play that land only if you have any available land plays. Normally, this means you can play the land only if you haven't played a land yet that turn.
  • 2022-12-02
    Casting an exiled card causes it to leave exile. You can't cast it multiple times.
USD Non-foil