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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...

To my surprise, the first time I played this pile, it actually won the game. My opponents couldn't stop Otharri, and I proceeded to pick them off one by one. As the game ended, I had 42 rebel tokens on the field.

I suspect that this deck could use some work, but I still don't have enough experience with it to make those calls. Well, if 2023 is a year of refining decks, perhaps this presents a nice learning opportunity.

Won a ridiculously long game with this deck. The whole table kept getting hit by board wipes, and I was in a lousy position almost the entire time. Because it lasted so long, I was eventually able to use Rise of the Dark Realms to get enough dragons on the battlefield that when I followed it up...

The card was brought up on one of those old threads. As for my own decks? I think it's like you say: bad if facing other tribal decks. Goblins get so many great synergies of their own that they outclass almost all other tribes handily. So why offer your opponents a leg up in the first place? In...

I'm declaring that the third chapter in the history of goblins starts in 1998 with Urza's Saga. Counting the tournament-legal reprinting of Goblin Matron, this set effectively introduced eight new goblins. Not all of these were winners. But Goblin Matron ended up becoming one of the most...

I guess I just got tired of winning or something. This deck is pretty bad. I was going through the commander options from the new set and trying to brainstorm ideas for a new deck. I don't have a concrete rule that I always build a deck with one of the commanders from a newly released set, but I...

Among the highlights of my "second chapter" scenario here is this awkward little goblin. At the time Visions was released in 1997, and even as new goblins came out with sets like Tempest, there just weren't a lot of reasons to run Goblin Recruiter, because there wasn't a lot that it could do...

Won a game after some back-and-forth gave me an opening to use an infinite loop with Academy Researchers + Fool's Demise. I had my misgivings after Academy Researchers kept turning up as a dead draw in previous games, but it really proved itself this time.

Just one game with this so far, and it was kind of encouraging. While I think that this style of deck I've contrived can't be done in the EDH format without significant problems, it is fun in a way. I ultimately lost my first game, although I should probably have won it if I'd played better...