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This deck is good. Unfortunately, I got off to a precarious start against a combo opponent (Slobad, Iron Goblin), and seemed to stall out. Scapeshift pulled me out of the stall and set me up to meld my commander into a 23/23. Unfortunately, a third player immediately hit Titania with Swords to...

Got stuck in a long game where I was awkwardly outclassed by two different opponents, managed to make myself a global threat and target anyway, and somehow survived long enough to be eliminated last. Anyway, the deck generally does what I built it to do, and it's not the deck's fault that I keep...

I don't know if any archives online have records of the proto-Legacy Goblin decks, but MTGTheSource has a pretty early list (March of 2005). 4x Goblin Lackey 4x Goblin Wachief 4x Goblin Ringleader 4x Goblin Piledriver 4x Goblin Matron 4x Gempalm Incinerator 4x Mogg Fanatic 3x Siege-Gang...

2004 saw three important new developments for Goblin decks, but none of them actually had anything to do with dedicated goblin synergies. Darksteel introduced two spicy new artifacts that would go on to see lots of use in Goblin decks. Skullclamp should need no introduction. The card was...

I think that I had a brainfart and had misremembered Reassembling Skeleton as returning to hand, not to the battlefield tapped. I used the card and didn't care for it in this deck, so I'm swapping it out with Goblin Engineer because I'm scared that I'll be hoisted on my own petard by Ensnaring...

I bought a copy of Whipcorder, then remembered that Outrider en-Kor and Bound in Silence existed. I don't have a ton of experience with this deck, so making cuts wasn't easy, but I decided to cut the maindeck's sole non-rebel creature. Now my Ramosians have three more potential targets! -1...

Not to get too hung up on the Tinker thing, but looking back at this stuff, it's kind of surreal. I don't know which is more bizarre: that Memory Jar was banned instead of Tinker or that Replenish was banned in Extended for almost two years before Tinker was finally banned. And part of me wants...

One of the earlier threads I did in this series was on Necropotence, and I think that at some point I broke down my own mixed feelings on that. Necropotence is one of my favorite cards ever, but I was always more fond of the stuff before Necropotence became tied to the Illusions + Donate combo...

Here it is: http://www.archive.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=15231.0;wap2 The primer is not too long and is, if you care about FCG, well worth the read. Seeing the primer again for the first time in a while, I'm reminded that it illustrates a point I hadn't been thinking about at all when I...

I must have read that same primer! I'll have to see if I can find it. That was my impression as well. I think the budget version probably gave Big Blue decks a bit too much leeway to set up, and was slower against dedicated combo decks, but it was strong against the rest of the field. Blast...

I was thinking of taking this deck apart, but I really don't want to have it go out on my last game with it, so I think I'll keep it around for now. The game was the most boring one I've had in a long time and I should have realized it sooner and scooped, but I stuck around until the end. I had...

Forsaken Monument continues to be great. I was poised to win a game thanks to it, but an opponent cast Over The Top. It's a pretty new card and I hadn't seen it in action yet. I had 10 non-land permanents, and Over The Top set me up with an infinite damage combo, which let me kill everyone else...

No luck with this one yet, but I was in a kind of weird pod I didn't care for much, and got egregiously colorscrewed with a bunch of black topdecks and no black mana production. I should have tried the deck in a second game, but both this one and our last game ran way too long.

You know, I hadn't thought of that, and it's a plausible explanation. Leave it to the CPA to keep the enthusiasm going strong for this old deck! FCG was pretty awesome. I didn't play Extended, and the deck first made a splash when I was still stubbornly refusing to acquire any of the "new"...

In constructing this deck, I realized that my whole playset of Bazaar of Baghdad is now occupying EDH decks (Liberator, Hakim, Otharri, and now Amber). It's not a problem, but it feels strange.

This is my fourth attempt at a "Hellbent" EDH deck, but it's the first one I'm taking somewhat seriously. Gone (for now) are the days of me trying to jam stuff like Grafted Skullcap and Avaricious Dragon into a deck helmed by something like Pavel Maliki. On the one hand, I'm building my third...

2003 was a momentous year for goblins. I already mentioned Gempalm Incinerator, Goblin Warchief, Goblin War Strike, and Siege-Gang Commander. Those tools empowered Goblin decks to some of their best Standard tournament decks, as well as resulting in the banning of Goblin Lackey in the Extended...

I'm defining the fourth chapter of Goblin history as starting with Onslaught in 2002, and it really shouldn't come as a surprise that this set and its entire block represented a watershed moment for "tribal" decks in general, and for goblins foremost among them. I suspect that it's pretty...

Following Urza's Saga, the next several sets added a bunch of new toys for goblins, although most of them are more like curiosities than staples. From the bizarre Goblin Spy to the deplorably situational Goblin Masons to the tantalizing Moggcatcher, the options just kept expanding. One of the...

Goblin Warrens is a card that I sort of abandoned early on, then rediscovered in 2019 because of Pashalik Mons. Fallen Empires mostly gets a bad rap these days for its overly niche and underpowered cards, but I think that some of the cards in the set hold up pretty well, despite a general lack...