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I cracked up at that Earthcraft line. Might have to steal that one. :ROFLMAO: Oops. I guess I had Mogg Fanatic on the brain? Weird. I know I saw the use of Port really play a role in the 2010's, punishing control decks for trying to drag Goblins into a long game of attrition. It's easy to...

Yet again, I got to do a bunch of damage to my opponents and then die. This deck doesn't really work properly. I need to make some changes.

Win streak broken. I chose to play this deck because it's a "modified precon" and one of my opponents was also playing a "modified precon." I had some misgivings, because I added lots of old rebel creatures and the original "Rebellion Rising" is pretty different from my version. It turns out...

My opponents kept killing my commander and then my other permanents were starting to get eaten up by Ashen Rider loops. I had a pretty high life total, no cards in hand, no one attacking me, and no way to break free from the Ashen Rider loops. The other two players at the table were more scared...

I had another lousy game with this deck. Worst one in a while, actually. My third-turn Rhystic Study painted a target on me and drew me some cards, but somehow I never actually drew any configuration of cards that gave me hope for a win or event playing a strong control game. At one point, I had...

Well, I had a bunch of losses last night and no wins. It all started with this deck. But I think that the game I played with this deck was totally winnable, and that I made some blunders along the way. I got kind of stuck using my resources to keep two of my three opponents from winning, but...

Once Legacy was established, I know that I personally didn't pay any attention to the Goblin archetype of the Extended format. After all, Goblin Lackey was legal in Legacy. But it's worth noting that in 2004 and 2005, Extended was still the more established, more important tournament format...

Before I get back to the Goblin King thread, I want to note an interesting new usage for Dream Halls that has arisen in EDH. I haven't built this deck myself, but I'm tempted to, because it's a pretty cool combo. Here's the commander... Of course, 2WUBRG is a steep cost, but we don't intend to...

I've had this deck for three months now, and I had yet to make any revisions. So it's about time for some changes... -1 Mutavault -1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship -1 Stalking Stones -1 Tocasia's Dig Site +1 Buried Ruin +1 Karn, Living Legacy +1 Moonsilver Key +1 The Mycosynth Gardens As much...

The Goblin King thread had me looking at some old stuff, so here's a little thread necromancy... In 2018, I figured that I'd probably never find Selden and Bingen's old Invitational decklist. I was convinced that I'd seen it, but I couldn't find it using any of my usual sources. Well, I found...

This deck handily won a second game. Not statistically significant, but I'm kind of bewildered just the same. I took the "Rebellion Rising" precon, which isn't the strongest precon ever, and basically just cut some generic cards and the go-wide soldier token subtheme for more of the "For...

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...