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.)
5 / 5
- Set
- The Hobbit (HOB #148)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 5
- Released
- 2026-08-14
- Artist
- Miklós Ligeti
- EDHREC rank
- #15,253
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Goblin-town Flunkies
- Tidings of War
- Fearsome Goblin Pair
- Misty Mountains Raider
- Bothersome Noisemaker
- Goblin Plate Mail
- Azog, Moria's Ruin
- Rage into the Valley
- Gathering of Darkness
- Great Ugly-Looking Goblin
- Goblin-town
- Bolg's Company
- Gundabad Opportunist
- Along the Crooked Way
- Stony-Voiced Goblins
- The Great Goblin
- Crude Bent Blade
- Down, Down to Goblin-town
- Snowslope Hunter
- Front Porch Sentries
- Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
- Ragged Short Spear
- Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
- Rhovanion Rampager
- Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning
- Stir Up Trouble
- Fall of Cair Andros
- Pinecone Strike
- Reverent Howl
- Foray of Orcs
- Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
- Bilbo's Deadly Slice
- March from the Black Gate
- Widespread Brutality
- Uglúk of the White Hand
- Krenko, Mob Boss
- My Precious
- Giant's Boulder
- Orcish Siegemaster
- Warg Rider
- Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern
- Smaug's Fury
- Boggart Cursecrafter
- Moria Scavenger
- Gnashing of Teeth
- Assault on Osgiliath
- Skirk Prospector
- Book of Mazarbul
- Barad-dûr
- Goblin Cratermaker
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Mountain
- Swamp
- Goblin-town Flunkies
- Fearsome Goblin Pair
- Tidings of War
- Misty Mountains Raider
- Bothersome Noisemaker
- Azog, Moria's Ruin
- Sol Ring
- Goblin Plate Mail
- Rage into the Valley
- Arcane Signet
- Gathering of Darkness
- Goblin-town
- Bolg's Company
- Great Ugly-Looking Goblin
- Command Tower
- Along the Crooked Way
- Dragonskull Summit
- Stony-Voiced Goblins
- Gundabad Opportunist
- The Great Goblin
- Smoldering Marsh
- Down, Down to Goblin-town
- Crude Bent Blade
- Snowslope Hunter
- Front Porch Sentries
- Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
- Feed the Swarm
- Blasphemous Act
- Talisman of Indulgence
- Rakdos Signet
- Sulfurous Springs
- Graven Cairns
- Blood Crypt
- Rhovanion Rampager
- Ragged Short Spear
- Tainted Peak
- Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
- Chaos Warp
- Rakdos Carnarium
- Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning
- Stir Up Trouble
- Foreboding Ruins
- Fall of Cair Andros
- Pinecone Strike
- Fellwar Stone
- Evolving Wilds
- Bilbo's Deadly Slice
- Reverent Howl
Format legality
Rulings
- 2026-06-29
Amass Orcs works the same way, except you create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token if you don't control an Army. And if the Army creature you chose isn't already an Orc, it becomes an Orc in addition to its other types. By combining cards with amass Orcs and amass Goblins, you can end up with a Goblin Orc Army.
- 2026-06-29
Bolg of the North has a reflexive triggered ability. When it enters the battlefield, its triggered ability goes on the stack without a target. While that ability is resolving, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, a second ability triggers and you pick a target that will be dealt damage. This is different from other abilities that say "If you do . . ." in that players may cast spells and activate abilities before a creature is sacrificed and then again after the creature is sacrificed but before damage is dealt.
- 2026-06-29
Bolg of the North's damage-dealing ability triggers only when you sacrifice a creature as a result of the instruction of its triggered ability. It won't trigger if you sacrifice a creature for any other reason.
- 2026-06-29
Excess damage has been dealt to a creature if the damage dealt to it is greater than lethal damage. Usually, this means damage greater than its toughness, although damage already marked on the creature is taken into account.
- 2026-06-29
If you don't control an Army, the Goblin Army token you create enters the battlefield as a 0/0 creature before receiving counters. Any abilities that trigger when a creature with a certain power enters the battlefield, such as that of Mentor of the Meek, will see the token enter as a 0/0 creature before it gets +1/+1 counters.
- 2026-06-29
In the rare case that you control multiple Army creatures (perhaps because you control a creature with changeling) while you amass Goblins, you choose which of your Army creatures to put the +1/+1 counters on. If that creature isn't a Goblin, it becomes a Goblin in addition to its other types.
- 2026-06-29
Some cards refer to the "amassed Army." That means the Army creature you chose to receive counters, even if no counters were placed on it for some reason.
- 2026-06-29
Some spells and abilities that amass Goblins may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't amass Goblins.
- 2026-06-29
The sacrificed creature's last known existence on the battlefield is checked to determine its power.
- 2026-06-29
To amass Goblins N, if you don't control an Army creature, create a 0/0 black Goblin Army creature token. Then you choose an Army creature you control and put N +1/+1 counters on it. If that Army isn't already a Goblin, it becomes a Goblin in addition to its other types.
- 2026-06-29
You can't sacrifice multiple creatures to deal damage multiple times.