Goblin Bombardment is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Sacrifice a creature: This enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.
Complete guide
Goblin Bombardment is a classic red enchantment that turns your creatures into lethal projectiles. It serves as a powerful sacrifice outlet, allowing you to convert any creature you control into direct damage at a moment's notice.
How It Works
Goblin Bombardment features an activated ability with a cost of sacrificing a creature. Because the sacrifice is part of the cost (the text before the colon), the creature is moved to the graveyard immediately when you announce the ability, and players cannot react to the sacrifice itself to try and save the creature.
Step-by-Step Resolution
First, you activate the ability by choosing a target and sacrificing a creature you control. This puts the ability on the stack. Next, players have a chance to respond with spells or abilities. Finally, if the ability resolves, Goblin Bombardment deals 1 damage to the chosen target, which can be a player, planeswalker, or creature.
Strategic Timing
Since this ability costs zero mana, you can use it whenever you have priority. It is most effective in response to an opponent's removal spell, effectively 'cashing in' a creature that was going to die anyway, or during combat after your creatures have already dealt damage.
Common Pitfalls
Remember that you cannot sacrifice the same creature to pay for multiple costs. If you have two copies of Goblin Bombardment, sacrificing one creature only triggers one of them. Also, keep in mind that the damage is dealt by the enchantment itself, not the creature being sacrificed.
Interaction examples
Impact TremorsWhen a creature enters the battlefield, Impact Tremors triggers to deal 1 damage to each opponent. You can then immediately sacrifice that same creature to Goblin Bombardment to deal another 1 damage to any target, effectively doubling the value of every creature you play.
Underworld BreachWith Underworld Breach on the battlefield, you can cast cheap creatures from your graveyard by paying their mana cost and exiling cards. You can then sacrifice those creatures to Goblin Bombardment to deal damage and put them back into the graveyard, ready to be escaped and sacrificed again.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Goblin Bombardment
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
No additional ruling has been published for this card.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Goblin Bombardment + Rhythm of the Wild
- 1Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing the persist creature.
- 2When the persist creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a -1/-1 counter on it due to Rhythm of the Wild
- 3Resolve the Goblin Bombardment ability.
- 4Repeat
Krenko, Mob Boss + Thornbite Staff + Goblin Bombardment
- 1Activate Krenko by tapping it, creating at least two 1/1 Goblin creature tokens.
- 2Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing a Goblin token.
- 3The Goblin dies, triggering Krenko, untapping Krenko.
- 4Resolve the Goblin Bombardment ability, dealing 1 damage to any target.
- 5Repeat.
Goblin Bombardment + Metallic Mimic
- 1Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing the persist creature.
- 2When the persist creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield without a -1/-1 counter on it due to Metallic Mimic
- 3Resolve the Goblin Bombardment ability.
- 4Repeat
Celes, Rune Knight + Goblin Bombardment
- 1Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing the persist creature.
- 2When the persist creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- 3When the persist creature enters the battlefield, Celes's second ability triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- 4Resolve the Goblin Bombardment ability.
- 5Repeat.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Thornbite Staff + Goblin Bombardment
- 1Activate Kiki-Jiki by tapping it, creating a token copy of any nonlegendary creature you control with haste.
- 2Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing the creature token.
- 3The token dies, triggering Kiki-Jiki, untapping Kiki-Jiki.
- 4Resolve the Goblin Bombardment ability, dealing 1 damage to any target.
- 5Repeat.
Goblin Bombardment + Gev, Scaled Scorch
- 1Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing the creature with persist.
- 2The persist ability triggers, returning that creature to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it, as well as a +1/+1 counter due to Gev.
- 3The +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters on that creature are removed as a state-based action.
- 4Resolve the ability from step 1, dealing 1 damage to any target.
- 5Repeat.
Goblin Bombardment + Thran Vigil
- 1Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing the creature with persist.
- 2When that creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- 3Thran Vigil triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on that creature.
- 4Remove a +1/+1 counter and a -1/-1 counter from that creature as a state-based action.
- 5Resolve the Goblin Bombardment ability from step 1.
- 6Repeat.
Cathars' Crusade + Goblin Bombardment
- 1Activate Goblin Bombardment by sacrificing the persist creature.
- 2When the persist creature dies, its persist ability triggers, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it.
- 3When the persist creature enters, Cathars' Crusade triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
- 4Resolve the Goblin Bombardment ability.
- 5Repeat
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