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Bolg of the North
Legendary Creature — Goblin Soldier
When Bolg enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, Bolg deals damage equal to that creature's power to another target creature. If excess damage was dealt this way, amass Goblins X, where X is that excess damage. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also a Goblin. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Goblin Army creature token first.)
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“Sacrifice creatures to ping & pump your Goblin Army into victory.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Sacrifice, Tokens, Aristocrats
Strategy
Bolg of the North is a sacrifice-fueled damage dealer that turns your creatures into both removal and army-building. When Bolg enters, you sacrifice another creature, dealing damage equal to its power to a target creature. Any excess damage gets converted into +1/+1 counters on your Goblin Army via amass, which snowballs into a massive threat. The core gameplan is to build a sacrifice engine: fill your deck with cheap creatures and aristocrats that generate value when they die, then repeatedly feed them to Bolg (or loop Bolg with flicker effects) to both clear blockers and pump your army into an overwhelming force.
Your deck wants to generate as many expendable creatures as possible—think tokens, ETB creatures, and creatures that don't mind dying. Cards like Goblin tokens, Zulaport Cutthroat, and recurring creatures ensure you always have fuel. Bolg's amass mechanic is deceptively strong: a 5/5 that deals 5 damage and makes a 5/5 army is strong, but once you're using that army as another sacrifice outlet, the damage and counters compound rapidly. You win by swinging with an absurdly large Goblin Army, often through a mix of combat damage and pings from your sacrifice triggers.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Budget Build
Skip expensive tutors and play more enter-the-battlefield creatures: Bitterblossom, Young Wolf, and Undead Warchief cost pennies and provide endless fodder.
Signature Cards
- 1Rage into the Valley
- 2Bothersome Noisemaker
- 3Azog, Moria's Ruin
- 4Gathering of Darkness
- 5Great Ugly-Looking Goblin
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