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I have mixed thoughts on the Standard stuff, but also don't really care about Standard anyway. Also, Earthcraft has been unjustly banned in Legacy for 975 consecutive weeks.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/may-29-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement Standard: Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki is banned. Invoke Despair is banned. Reckoner Bankbuster is banned. Effective Date: Tabletop and Magic Online: May 29, 2023 MTG...

The scope of this deck has changed somewhat. My original idea was to use Cultivator Colossus to dump enough lands onto the battlefield that Field of the Dead could generate a deadly army. With 85 lands, there was some chance that this interaction would whiff, and I had some backups built in. I...

I played Goblins in Canadian Highlander for a while, tweaking my deck a bit, but I can't find a saved decklist for what I played. Originally, my deck was an exact copy of a "Mac Goblins" list I found online, but that deck, which seems to have first popped up in 2016, evolved over time. The exact...

Played this deck twice last night. First game seemed to show some promise: I had Whirlwind of Thought and Jeskai Ascendancy on the battlefield. But I just couldn't draw into creatures! If I'd had a couple of creatures to get things going, the deck could have popped off. Instead, I watched in...

Won a game with this deck. I got to use my super-secret tech of Forcefield + Urza's Armor, and that's always a win in its own right. My opponents seemed to be poorly positioned against Withering Wisps, so I used Demonic Tutor to fetch it. Chaos Warp on my Wisps hit Urza's Armor, suddenly putting...

After considerable frustration, this deck won a game that it had no business winning. I went second turn Nim Deathmantle, third turn Dragon's Hoard, fourth turn, Flameshadow conjuring, then proceeded to topdeck six drops for a few turns in a row. In my hand were Scourge of Valkas and Kiki-Jiki...

Fourth turn kill. :P I went first turn Tranquil Thicket, then second turn Gaea's Touch. Third turn I cast my commander, but no one killed it or put any other obstacles in my way. They were still focused on building their own board states, laboring under the delusion that they'd have time...

This deck didn't really get a fair shake because it and the rest of the table got pubstomped by a high-power blue deck. I guy who built that deck often plays with unmodified precons, and I guess it didn't register for him that I was piloting one here, even though I told him so. Oh well. Better...

I bought this precon and now I'm going to play it. This is the first time in several years that I'll be playing an unmodified precon. Might make my own revisions over time. We'll see. It seems that Esika is the default commander, but Sisay is the better option, so I put Esika in the maindeck...

2018 introduced some cool utility options for goblins, but the standout of the bunch was always Goblin Chainwhirler. It's not the most explosive aggressive option, doesn't get discounted by Goblin Warchief, and it doesn't combo off, but it's great against some opponents. It still sees use today...

-1 Timeless Witness -1 Abundance -1 Manabond -1 Sylvan Library -1 Conduit of Worlds -1 Beast Within -1 Gaea's Blessing -1 Life from the Loam -1 Regrowth +1 Blinkmoth Nexus +2 Forest +2 Snow-Covered Forest +1 Thicket Elemental +1 Gaea's Touch +1 Desert Twister +1 Rude Awakening

I tried this deck out and pretty quickly realized two things. Cultivator Colossus is not an elemental. I'd gotten it mixed up with Endurance in my head at some point and didn't think to check the card's subtypes until I was in an actual game. Oops. This makes me look pretty foolish, but is...

Let's move on to the sixth and final chapter I've made up to describe the history of goblins. The fifth chapter covered some important developments, but was something of a letdown when compared to the glory of the fourth chapter. And the drag was long-term. I placed the fourth chapter between...

I was just starting another post in this thread when it occurred to me that I should talk about CPA Tribal Game 15. It's something easy for me to look up because it happened here, and it was around the same time as some of the other events I've described. The era I'm calling the "fifth chapter"...

I don't do gimmick decks often enough anymore. So here's one! The whole gameplan here is to use some sort of fetchland to trigger landfall twice in the same turn, which should guarantee that my commander can find Thicket Elemental, which gets kicked and finds Cultivator Colossus. From there, I...

Played two games with this deck. Um, things got pretty weird. First game, I had an opening hand that I thought looked pretty promising. I had Jeskai Ascendancy, but needed to get a few lands and creatures down first before trying to use the Ascendancy engine. Worked on sculpting my hand and...

Out of all my decks in 2022, the Jeskai Ascendancy deck helmed by Gnostro, Voice of the Crags turned out to be my most dismal failure. In 2023, one of the new precons has helpfully provided a new spin on what already failed for me last year. Apparently I'm a glutton for punishment. We'll see how...

Won my most recent game with this deck, but I really should not have. With a lot of stuff going on and making plays I didn't normally resort to, I mistakenly targeted Spirit of the Night with the -3 on Liliana of the Dark Realms. Shouldn't be possible because Spirit of the Night has protection...

Won a tense game by fetching Hellkite Tyrant and copying it with Flameshadow Conjuring. I had 1 gold token, 18 treasure tokens, and Lightning Greaves, so my artifact count was just enough to win me the game, and the one player who could deal direct damage to a creature couldn't kill both...