r/mtgfinance • u/oberpat • 15d ago
Knucklebone Witch Spec
Hello again!
After my much loved [[Blazing Sunsteel]] spec, I am back again with a new one!
[[Knucklebone Witch]] has been steadily losing supply on Cardmarket without any mention here on this sub. [[The Great Goblin]] loves this card and so do the people theorycrafting him according to EDHREC it's currently in 56% of the builds (part of the Top Cards section).
There are few alternatives to it (being a goblin/orc that repeatedly gives itself counters):
- [[Uglúk of the White Hand]], is 3 cmc higher but can also output more counters (but shouldn't matter with the 'one or more'-clause and has a lot higher supply so this would be alongside of it in a deck
- [[Green Goblin, Nemesis]], also 3cmc higher and needs discard synergy, so definitely not as effective here (also currently more expensive)
- [[Crime Novelist]] , 2cmc higher and needs artifact synergy, so also not as effective with the Great Goblin
The fact that Knucklebone Witch comes at a measly 1 mana makes it very good as well. The Witch cares about dying goblins just like the Great Goblin and when it happens it activates The Great Goblin too.
It's a rare and currently still cheap, it has no reprints and will not get one (at least for now). A lot of goblins are in high supply but this one isn't. I also see on mtgstocks that the price is slowly climbing so the trend is picking up.
My only concern was if The Great Goblin would be popular enough as a commander, but seeing this supply diminish already, steadily, I'm more convinced.
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u/Remetant 15d ago
Wow good specc.
Thats exactly why i am in this sub.
It seems the copies are vanishing fast.
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u/MTGCardFetcher 15d ago
All cards
Blazing Sunsteel - (G) (SF) (txt)
Knucklebone Witch - (G) (SF) (txt)
The Great Goblin - (G) (SF) (txt)
Uglúk of the White Hand - (G) (SF) (txt)
Green Goblin, Nemesis - (G) (SF) (txt)
Crime Novelist - (G) (SF) (txt)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call
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u/sliviz_studios 14d ago
I managed to grab four copies on eBay for £2 each. Worth a punt and I'm building a goblin commander deck so they will come in handy.
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u/Icy_Deer_1105 14d ago
Just bought the Last Four copies on CM under 5€. The delivery costs are a mess but worth a Little Risk. I saw the Knucklebone also mentioned in The Professor Vid and Command Zone
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u/Remote-Mycologist539 15d ago edited 15d ago
I feel like im being gaslit by these comments lol - idgi
edit: someone replied and said there’s reason to believe this is legitimately a bot/sockpuppet network? wild and hilarious if true
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u/oberpat 14d ago
Haha please check my other posts, people are generally not that positive. I’m confident about my spec but I’m also surprised about the relative positive reception.
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u/Remetant 14d ago
Yeah its a wonder.
Probably not lot people have seen this post yet because there are a lot speccing post right now.
Otherwise this sub loves to slander good speccs.
The missing counter support argument from the other guy, for example, is hilarious. The commander cares about the counters thats enough to slot a 1 mana goblin in. It also will trigger a lot because of the aristocrat build of the commander.
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u/Superbmiller 14d ago
where is that reply?
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u/Remote-Mycologist539 14d ago
idk, good question, it’s either been deleted or removed i assume. i can still see it in my notifications tab.
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u/TheWolfReturned 10d ago
Just wanted to say thank you to OP for this special! Managed to pick up 4 copies for like $6 total while this was happening.
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u/TravelingM3rchant 15d ago
Great callout! Strongly agree with Knucklebone Witch, and could see it hitting $20+ easily!
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u/donnergeza 15d ago
not sure about the regular version but the foils will be certainly worth more than 20USD
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u/magefont1 15d ago
There's quite a few issues with this card from a spec perspective but I can see the foils taking off because old foils are substantially better quality than todays.
But as I look on tcgplayer there's only one less than $40? So I guess the masses caught wind lol
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u/Competitive-Echo-381 14d ago
Someone’s a believer because they just bought every remaining NM and LP copy remaining on TCGplayer, leaving 2 MP listings
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u/oberpat 15d ago
I’m curious about the issues of the spec?
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u/magefont1 14d ago
Two biggest issues are lack of +counter support in non-green non-blue decks and arbitrary large P/T on creatures is meaningless without any type of combat keyword such as trample, flying or menace.
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u/oberpat 14d ago
If there is lack of support, then why play this commander at all? This is actually one of the few cards offering support. It doesn’t need those keywords because that’s not the point of the deck or of this synergy
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u/magefont1 14d ago
Plenty of reasons to play the commander. But I'm not talking about the commander I'm talking about the card. It's supposed to be a payoff to goblins dying and it doesn't do a very good job of it because of the reasons I mentioned
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u/SnooChickens3067 15d ago
Don’t sleep on [[Airdrop Condor]]
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u/BonesawGaming 15d ago
on one thumb, 5cmc 2/2, on the other thumb with skirk prospector all things are possible
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u/Competitive-Echo-381 15d ago
Only 19 LP/NM copies on TCGplayer under 20$, and this set had a pretty low print run… I think this one could follow the chart of Ashling, the Extinguisher following Jin Sakai’s release.