Last night I turned 7 goblins into 14,000,000+ goblin tokens with Krenko Mob Boss, Umbral Mantle, and Brightstone Ritual. Used a calculator to figure out that amount.
I can tell you had a blast making the intro video with the card illustrations, because I had a blast watching it. Your video editing-fu is getting very good! Also that was a goblin pun.
Thank you for this awesome video! I'm also working on a Goblin EDH deck right now. What I find useful is the sorcery Mogg Infestation. For me it works via 2 ways: First, if I have an Electrickery in my hand, I just cast Mogg Infestation to destroy all of my opponent's creatures, then overload Electrickery. The alternate is, if I don't have Electrickery but have Goblin Bombardment in play, then I cast Mogg Infestation on myself to destroy all of my goblins (yeah I know!) but I double the number of my goblins so I can sac all to Bombardment. Mogg Infestation + Goblin Bombardment will work best if you have Vicious Shadows (7 cmc) in play. And let's not forget about the sac outlets such as Ashnod's Altar, Culling Dais, Carnage Altar, Phyrexian Vault, Phyrexian Altar, Thermopod and Spawning Pit just to name a few.
I wanted to thank you . it is thanks to your videos if I started playing MTG because the biggest problem was that I had no clue how to start (everything was so confusing) but thanks to your videos I'm having lots of fun now. Next week , my first MTG prerelease . THANKS AGAIN PROFESSOR , KEEP GOING WITH THESE AWESOME VIDEOS !!!!
I like the addition of the music in the video. Maybe I didn't notice other music you have placed in your previous ones, but this was a great choice. The music added a great pace to the video.
I just started playing Magic a few weeks ago and bought the Speed VS Cunning duel decks as my first Magic cards. Now I have always been pretty good at strategy games and caught on pretty quick so when I played against my brother in law who has been playing for years against his spore deck I thought I had a chance but really I knew he would rock me once again. The I pulled Kranko, Mob Boss and the battle of +1+1 creatures began. It was tough but with the help of an Ajani planswalker giving all my creatures +1+1 my goblins survived. It still took me until I had 9,220 1/1 and plus goblins creature tokens until I finally won.
I find this very interesting as I just completed my Krenko EDH deck. One comment about Goblin Pyromancer though; It can be very beneficial if you use him while you have a sacrifice outlet in play, so once you get your +3/+0 benefit, you just sac him and the negative side goes away (but always make sure your opponent doesn't have any shenanigans). Goblins is and always will be my favorite tribe. Thanks for this Video, keep 'em coming.
I'm not sure if it was intentional, but there was a really great card combo you listed but didn't hint at. Goblin Recruiter (to place all your goblin type cards on top of your deck) then use Goblin Charbelcher as you just made it possible to easily deal close to it's maximum amount of damage. If you could squeeze in a blink effect, this could be an easy game finisher. Great video as always TCC! ^-^
I put this together... So much fun. I subbed gauntlet of power for the goblin shrine lord. And I threw in a blood moon and shatter storm. So far it's working out well!
Been waiting on your goblin build for it seems like weeks lol. Refreshing to see a deck have goblins in name but not have rabblemaster as first card listed. As for prerelease I plan on playing every clan I can, this is the best weekend in MTG, I've got 3 LGS around me and they all hosting at least 5 events this weekend. I didn't buy any khans this month and just saved for this weekend. O ya, cannot wait for fate reforged booster box game, its my favorite series you do but that's probably because it only comes around every so often, even less after they switch block format. Once again thanks for the uploads professor, you are the best MTG channel on TH-cam and that's saying alot (we have such a good community now!)
Mana Echoes + Goblin Warrens; creates tons of mana and for each 1 red you can produce it gives you that many activation's of Goblin Warrens while you control at least 2-3 goblins when you activate it. Shared Animosity; because its a cheap way to get a Coat of Arms effect for just you. If you stop caring about your life total. Repercussion with the possibility of Dolmen Gate can spill blood fast. Using Blastphemous Act + Chain Reaction with it as well can hurt other players worse. Cast Blastphemous Act for basically free and in response sacrifice your board to the many sacrifice outlets to deal damage and when the Blastphemous Act resolves everyone else takes 13 damage for each creature they controlled. I hope you like some of these idea's. :)
Magic Defined: Prismatic Prismatic is a format best described as "Legacy jumping into a blender with Highlander." you have the deep pool of cards from Legacy, and a massive 250 card deck. The only banned card is "Battle of Wits". a Prismatic deck is constructed by having at least 20 cards of each of the 5 colors. multi colored cards like "Scar", and split cards like "Breaking//Entering" can only count as one color (ie, in one deck, 19 blue cards + Nicol Bolas #1, 19 Black cards + Nicol Bolas #2 and 18 Red cards + Nicol Bolas #3 and 4.)
I don't have all of these cards yet, however it did lead me to start a Highlander Goblin deck with some weaker cards I have. I'll probably upgrade as I go along. Would be fun to see a Highlander Pirate deck for Talk Like a Pirate Day in September!
88Hyo One note, Boggart Ram-Gang cannot be used in EDH with Krenko as the commander, as it has hybrid red/green symbols on it. Perhaps a Stigma Lasher, or a Rustrazor Butcher (for sake of goblin continuity)?
Here's a nifty combo to include in this deck: Basilisk Collar equiped on Goblin Sharpshopoter. Tap Goblin, deal 1 damage to a creature, dies with adquired deathtouch from Basilisk Collar, untap Goblin, repeat until you clean up the entire board.
I love the commander decks you provide.Well hell, I love all of your videos, and eagerly await new ones. If i may offer one small suggestion. Is there a way to show a "non budget option" at the end of these (or future) videos? Not just a couple of cards, but a complete change. I have always wondered if the financial side wasn't a hurdle, what cards would you switch out for what. Keep up the great work!!!!!!!!!!!!
I freakin' LOVE my Krenko commander deck, and it works OK as a singleton deck. I am working on an BRG deck with Shattergang Brothers too. Voracious Dragon has fun goblin synergy too
I built a tribal goblin deck with 3 krenkos, kiki jiki, goblin recruiter, rabblemaster, piledriver, warchief, goblin matron, Warren instigator and so on and i can't stop winning. My friends don't want to play with me already and it's been only a week I built the deck. I'm even bored of wining all the time. Goblins are very powerful when they are together. My favourite tribe in magic by far.
While I do appreciate the value of budget decklists as a way of introducing people to the format, I would love to see some more advanced, "money is no object" deck primers. Keep up the good work!
Vonsen08 I'll get to those eventually in Highlander. Maybe I can even get a hold of some of the good folks in Berlin and Victoria and show off decks that win in their actual competitive tournaments. For Modern, I started out small and now am talking advanced and expensive stuff and plan to do the same when I eventually get to Cube and...well...in Pauper even the high end "money is no limit" stuff is cheap...which is niiiiiiiiice.
Hey TCC, I love your stuff! Do you think you'd be able to do an EDH deck for Jund Dragons? Dragons have always been my favorite creature type in Magic and I'm just getting into EDH. So maybe in the future you can! That would be awesome. Have a good day!
A huge chunk of this deck mirrors my Krenko EDH deck, but there are several cards that were mentioned that may be finding their way into said Krenko deck...
+PandaJohn71 Goblin Rabblemaster is a two edged blade, I believe the reason he wasn't included in the video is because last time I checked he had a very high price tag; if you can afford to pout him in the deck by all means do it, just remmber that he can cause key goblins to get killed in the processes of his forced attacks.
He no longer has a high price tag. He's maybe a $4-6 card depending on foil, promo, or regular. He actually cracked him in an M15 draft with my friends.
I really enjoyed the clean presentation of your Goblins Highlander deck. It reminded me of MS Powerpoint, but maybe you use something fancier. Length was a bit long, but your brief commentary of each card kept our attention. One thing, professor, I thought you were trolling us by waiting to mention Siege-Gang Commander for so long till near the end. Anyway, great deck review video.
Nice vid Tolarian! At 8:25 you say that Pyroknesis is a great finisher, but it can only damage creatures, not players. Maybe you could use Stoke the Flames or even Purphoros, God of the Forge instead of that Pyroknesis. The deck looks great and a lot fun to play! =)
Great video, thank you for sharing. I'll make sure to share it with all my friends (and get them to subscribe!) Do you think you'll be doing more highlander deck videos? I think this would make a fantastic series. And if so, can I request you do a deck based around U/G and/or the Cascade mechanic? Could be tons of fun and powerfully competitive! Thanks again!
What are your thoughts on an Obelisk of Urd for a Goblin deck? There are always some weaklings that could be used for the Convoke mechanic and the overall boost is pretty nice. Also, I'd like to see your take on a blue-black Ninjutsu/Sabotage deck (60 card) as I am still trying to optimize mine.
Luca Scanu i would think so but they are all pretty pricy and it seems this was being build on a budget at the time of release (blood moon now risen to $45) also a rabblemaster would be good as well.
sythmaster0 Cavern of Souls is very pricey, mutavault isn't a must have but with all goblins getting so many abilities, it won't be a 2/2 after turn 3-5. Nykthos would be brilliant later game When you have around 15+ red mana symbols so getting that much mana would allow you to dump all thats in your hand. Goblin Piledriver is quite cheap now at around £8 at my locals and is easy to get your hands on. Goblin Lackey is to powerful to be left out of this deck I think. Getting a free goblin turn 2. Imagine this: Turn 1: Goblin Lackey Turn 2: Goblin Piledriver, attack with Lackey, put Goblin Chieftain on the battlefield, all Goblins get +1+1 and haste. Turn 3: Hordeling Outburst, they get +1+1 and haste. Attack with Lackey who is a 2/2, put Goblin King down, give them all +1+1 and Mountainwalk so Lackey is now a 3/3. Attack with Goblin Chieftain now a 4/4, attack with all 3 of the 3/3 Goblin Tokens and attack with Goblin Piledriver, it started a 1/2, got +1+1 twice so is a 3/4, but you attacked with 5 other Goblins so it gets +10+0 so is now a 13/4 They all have Mountainwalk so if my opponents have a mountain they are unblock able so 19 damage gets through on turn 3, and 20 damage by turn 3. Half of their life gone on turn 3! Thier price is justified. :)
I would always argue for throwing in Valakut. Yeah there's the non-bo with Blood Moon, but knowing that it'll be destroyed ASAP, and wanting more utility out of my lands late game, I can't help but smile at a lightning bolt-ing land :)
egyptcraze Valakut absolutely is great in this deck. I left it out on purpose, because I was trying to streamline the deck into a "more than one card having the same or similar function" template, and Valakut is pretty much one of a kind.
Tolarian Community College Since FRF and DTK have released, there's been a number of cards on my radar to maybe add to this list. How do you feel about the options of Dragon Fodder, Impact Tremmors, Mardu Scout and (Goblin Heelcutter or) Zurgo Bellstriker. The idea of adding Impact tremmors lies in quickly trying to get your goblins out. As it will deal 1 damage to ALL opponents, synergizing this with Hordling Outburst, Dragon Fodder, some of the tutors, Beetleback Chief and even Krenko, the synergy is dirty effective. How do you feel about it proffessor?
Great list I only really miss Goblin piledriver for this aggro approach. I run a Krenko EDH deck and besides some combo pieces (Kiki/Lightning crafter/Thornbite staff/etc.) it's p similar to this so I can easily switch between those two formats with the deck. Same goes for my Ezuri and Gisa deck (I'm a sucker for tribal decks). I really like the evasion enablers I wasn't aware of many of those so thanks =)
O yeah, Five-alarm fire is also great if you have a bunch of goblins but are getting brickwalled. Just convert combat damage into direct damage, I first kinda scoffed at this card cause I thought you'd have to sacrifice it after you removed the counters. Turns out you don't and it's been amazing ever since.
Thanks for the tips and confirmation that this mostly works as a commander deck. I was pretty sure it would, but not be very competitive. Bought the list and sleeved it up last night. Probably going to play first game with it tonight. I like your upgrades. Found some others here: archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/deck/889 Do you run blood moon in yours?
***** In EDH Goblins isn't super competitive because Krenko draws all the hate (and rightly so). You are always the first target for most players because you can go off turn 3/4. In 1v1 (Duel commander) the deck is super competitive. Yeah I run Bloodmoon it's amazing and much needed disruption, also run chaos warp for multiplayer. That card is OK in 1v1 because you can't tuck commanders in that format but it's still cheap removal in red so heh. Also Warp World is a fun card to check out, it's completely bonkers if you have a bunch of Goblin tokens out on the field.
I like Goblins. Got two 60-card Goblin decks a mono red raid bombardment and a black/blue Goblin Rogue/Prowl deck, both are great fun to play. You mention assigning Krenko as the Commander, which seems an obvious choice. How do you think the deck would do in a Commander multiplayer environment (3-5 players)? Will it run out of fuel (burns / goblins to sac) too quickly to work?
I have always been kind of on the blue side of magic... never really liked red winnies or burn. I haven't played Commander yet. However, this is going to be my commander deck. Period. If not for the awesome shenanigans goblins provide... then for ALL that flavor text I just read. Goblins have unquestionably the most well humored flavor text. For anyone who didn't pay attention... watch the video again and pause to appreciate over 20 years of goblin flavor xD
The only thing that disappoints me is the extreme lack of Goblin planeswalkers. Almost any goblin deck is easy to pilot and generally gets you results and the lack of any planeswalkers to help pilot or be a staple in any red fashioned deck seems criminal to me. Daretti is nice and I do love playing him. But he dosen't scream play goblins with me. Red has always been a color that never lets me down from burn to aggro. Red has always been a color that no matter what. I can almost always make a Red Aggro/Burn. Sure is it always competitive? no. But is it always fun to play? HELLZ YEAH! Now I do love Chandra, Sarkhan, Koth, and even Tibalt (mostly flavor wise he embodies the madness of red. But needs to be tone down a bit). But nothing for the red players to really compete with the other colors. Any ways as always great video! I love introducing people to goblin decks and if I can set them up with an easy to understand video to help guide them towards that is always a plus.
I personally like to add Ogre Battledriver to any Krenko or pretty much any red tokenbuild. Killed ppl for over 50 damage multiple times with the goblin + battledriver combo.
would it be okay to add lands in exchange for the mountains like Rogue's Passage, it gives unblockable to a creature for 4 mana. 34 red mana and 1 colorless is okay right?
Did you ever consider playing Clickslither in this deck? just a thought for another huge bomb, reckless one? By the way, I love your content and I would love to see more like this in the future!
I collect all the cards that say "goblin", from creatures to enchantments, instants,etc. But I have a rule, I must not buy one or any card directly in any shop or anyone. I can only trade them with other people or from picking them in boosters, fat packs, booster boxes. etc. I have all of them organized alphabetic from Alpha to the last expansion in a album and every pocket says the card name that is missing, so when I acquire a goblin he is putted in order. I have only 74 goblin cards, being the Goblin Balloon Brigade from 4th edition my oldest, but its a start :)
You confused Goblin Warchief and Goblin Chieftain at the beginning. :P Also, Boggart Ramgang is also green, so does that mean he couldn't be in your EDH deck because it's not only in Krenko's color?
i recently added Goblin Snowman (yep i did) and really surprised people with it. can block anything and no damage is done. that give him death touch and block then ping for the kill lol.
No Goblin Lackey?Eitherway great video specially i was building Krenko commander so this video had great suggestions to finish it.Suprise at no Shared Animosity in the deck.That card seems really scary for a goblin deck.Also Outpost Siege from Fate Reforged is going to be baeutifull in this deck
Do goblin lords count as legendary? (Idk because it's an older type of card) Also Tolarian, which card would you make commander if you don't have a commander and need a quick deck?
"But, if you are easily impressed by sheer firepower then you're about to be...blown away" I don't know about you but I think I laughed so hard I broke a rib, no joke (and it wasn't even that funny)
this is awesome and i'm making a goblin commander deck and this helped me thank you. Can you do a video of a Faerie commander or highlander deck for Oona, Queen of the Fae? Since i want to make tribal decks after i finished my goblin deck.
No Goblin Piledriver? No raging goblin? Blasphemy! Also, imo, Goblin Cohort is the most underrated goblin ever printed. I play goblins every turn, so I basically get 2/2's for 1 when I play them. Awesome!
hey i was wondering if you could possible make a video on a mardu or jeski control deck. or let alone sideboard options for control, i recently got into mardu and its a good deck but i fail againt rabble red or sidisi whip, i wanted to know what your opinions are on control decks in those colors, love the channel!
So i just ordered the rest of the cards to build this deck. My question is, if im playing against an opponent that uses enchantments and artifacts. What hate cards are in or can i add to this goblin deck?
PROFESSOR! Is there a way to perhaps have a highlander deck AND a commander deck that you could use for both but just switch out a few cards as needed for each format? I love both but don't have the funds currently to play both.
DCAMM720 in his highlander video where he goes over the rules he says that if you build a good highlander deck it can be used as EDH just add a commander or take an existing legendary from the deck to use, since highlanders are build for synergy with each other not just the commander.
Just watched your recent video on 5 things viewers can do to help content creators and I'm curious if actually finishing watching the ad before the video helps you. Do you get penalized if we hit skip ad or do you get more ad revenue if we watch all the way through the ad?
Last night I turned 7 goblins into 14,000,000+ goblin tokens with Krenko Mob Boss, Umbral Mantle, and Brightstone Ritual. Used a calculator to figure out that amount.
......this.
This is why don't leave home without a boardwipe.
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I can tell you had a blast making the intro video with the card illustrations, because I had a blast watching it. Your video editing-fu is getting very good!
Also that was a goblin pun.
I'm blown away by the quality of this video. Let's thumbs up so Professor can take a much needed vacation! Perhaps sight-seeing at the goblin warrens?
Thank you for this awesome video!
I'm also working on a Goblin EDH deck right now.
What I find useful is the sorcery Mogg Infestation.
For me it works via 2 ways:
First, if I have an Electrickery in my hand, I just cast Mogg Infestation to destroy all of my opponent's creatures, then overload Electrickery.
The alternate is, if I don't have Electrickery but have Goblin Bombardment in play, then I cast Mogg Infestation on myself to destroy all of my goblins (yeah I know!) but I double the number of my goblins so I can sac all to Bombardment.
Mogg Infestation + Goblin Bombardment will work best if you have Vicious Shadows (7 cmc) in play.
And let's not forget about the sac outlets such as Ashnod's Altar, Culling Dais, Carnage Altar, Phyrexian Vault, Phyrexian Altar, Thermopod and Spawning Pit just to name a few.
I wanted to thank you . it is thanks to your videos if I started playing MTG because the biggest problem was that I had no clue how to start (everything was so confusing) but thanks to your videos I'm having lots of fun now. Next week , my first MTG prerelease . THANKS AGAIN PROFESSOR , KEEP GOING WITH THESE AWESOME VIDEOS !!!!
hmm...needs more Goblin Gardener...
and sausage trees.
Goblins are my favorite!
You're videos just keep getting better and better man, keep it up.
I like the addition of the music in the video. Maybe I didn't notice other music you have placed in your previous ones, but this was a great choice. The music added a great pace to the video.
I just started playing Magic a few weeks ago and bought the Speed VS Cunning duel decks as my first Magic cards. Now I have always been pretty good at strategy games and caught on pretty quick so when I played against my brother in law who has been playing for years against his spore deck I thought I had a chance but really I knew he would rock me once again. The I pulled Kranko, Mob Boss and the battle of +1+1 creatures began. It was tough but with the help of an Ajani planswalker giving all my creatures +1+1 my goblins survived. It still took me until I had 9,220 1/1 and plus goblins creature tokens until I finally won.
I find this very interesting as I just completed my Krenko EDH deck. One comment about Goblin Pyromancer though; It can be very beneficial if you use him while you have a sacrifice outlet in play, so once you get your +3/+0 benefit, you just sac him and the negative side goes away (but always make sure your opponent doesn't have any shenanigans).
Goblins is and always will be my favorite tribe. Thanks for this Video, keep 'em coming.
I'm not sure if it was intentional, but there was a really great card combo you listed but didn't hint at. Goblin Recruiter (to place all your goblin type cards on top of your deck) then use Goblin Charbelcher as you just made it possible to easily deal close to it's maximum amount of damage. If you could squeeze in a blink effect, this could be an easy game finisher.
Great video as always TCC! ^-^
I put this together... So much fun. I subbed gauntlet of power for the goblin shrine lord. And I threw in a blood moon and shatter storm. So far it's working out well!
Norin the wary is from Time Spiral, and is probably there from the references in Jade Statue and Goblin Shrine
blork blob Oh how we MTG players revel the change to spotlight the shortcomings of others. Bully for you!
This man is the best and smartest mtg talker on youtube
If i'm not wrong, Norin the Wary is from Time Spiral and not from Zendikar, right?
yes
Been waiting on your goblin build for it seems like weeks lol. Refreshing to see a deck have goblins in name but not have rabblemaster as first card listed. As for prerelease I plan on playing every clan I can, this is the best weekend in MTG, I've got 3 LGS around me and they all hosting at least 5 events this weekend. I didn't buy any khans this month and just saved for this weekend. O ya, cannot wait for fate reforged booster box game, its my favorite series you do but that's probably because it only comes around every so often, even less after they switch block format. Once again thanks for the uploads professor, you are the best MTG channel on TH-cam and that's saying alot (we have such a good community now!)
Mana Echoes + Goblin Warrens; creates tons of mana and for each 1 red you can produce it gives you that many activation's of Goblin Warrens while you control at least 2-3 goblins when you activate it.
Shared Animosity; because its a cheap way to get a Coat of Arms effect for just you.
If you stop caring about your life total. Repercussion with the possibility of Dolmen Gate can spill blood fast. Using Blastphemous Act + Chain Reaction with it as well can hurt other players worse. Cast Blastphemous Act for basically free and in response sacrifice your board to the many sacrifice outlets to deal damage and when the Blastphemous Act resolves everyone else takes 13 damage for each creature they controlled.
I hope you like some of these idea's. :)
Awesome! Brilliant! Epic and gobilistious! Another amazing video!
Magic Defined: Prismatic
Prismatic is a format best described as "Legacy jumping into a blender with Highlander." you have the deep pool of cards from Legacy, and a massive 250 card deck. The only banned card is "Battle of Wits". a Prismatic deck is constructed by having at least 20 cards of each of the 5 colors. multi colored cards like "Scar", and split cards like "Breaking//Entering" can only count as one color (ie, in one deck, 19 blue cards + Nicol Bolas #1, 19 Black cards + Nicol Bolas #2 and 18 Red cards + Nicol Bolas #3 and 4.)
Clickslither goes well with a lot of tokens, and basilisk collar makes goblin sharpshooter amazing
I love Goblins, but even more than that, I love all the Ron Spencer art in this deck
Norin the Wary was printed in Time Spiral not Zendikar
Man! This video helped me a lot brother. Tooo freaking awesome
Goblins are my favorite MTG creature. So versatile. High cost, Low cost, Weak, and strong. Good to have around
Cant believe that nobody noticed that warchief and chieftain are the wrong way around in the commentary :p
***** Ugh...yep. Warchief...chief...ton? You can at least see how easy it is to get those two names confused.
Yup, haha, The only reason I noticed is because I play with them regularly.
Tolarian Community College Can I just say that I find your videos Highly informative and useful!
Thank you for taking the time to make them!
I know I thought the comments would be full of hate.
I did!
I got here by searching "Tolarian Community College" and my favorite thing- Goblins.
I don't have all of these cards yet, however it did lead me to start a Highlander Goblin deck with some weaker cards I have. I'll probably upgrade as I go along. Would be fun to see a Highlander Pirate deck for Talk Like a Pirate Day in September!
"this is highlander,not commander"...but you can stick a Krenko to the head of the deck and it will work the same as a commander deck...?
88Hyo Yep, very well in fact.
Okay,thanks!
88Hyo One note, Boggart Ram-Gang cannot be used in EDH with Krenko as the commander, as it has hybrid red/green symbols on it. Perhaps a Stigma Lasher, or a Rustrazor Butcher (for sake of goblin continuity)?
+Jr Koad Or use a sac outlet to kill him in response, and recast him.
sort of. the deck would be really bad, but it would be legal... except for the hybrid color goblins which are off color for krenko.
Goblins are my favourite creature bar none.
I'm looking forward to building a deck based on you recommendations. :)
Can't stop reading the hilarious flavour texts
Norin was printed in time spiral, which was a while from the dark, but quite a few years before zendikar.
love your highlander videos! Keep em coming! :)
Here's a nifty combo to include in this deck: Basilisk Collar equiped on Goblin Sharpshopoter. Tap Goblin, deal 1 damage to a creature, dies with adquired deathtouch from Basilisk Collar, untap Goblin, repeat until you clean up the entire board.
i love the flavor text of goblin cards
I love the commander decks you provide.Well hell, I love all of your videos, and eagerly await new ones.
If i may offer one small suggestion. Is there a way to show a "non budget option" at the end of these (or future) videos? Not just a couple of cards, but a complete change. I have always wondered if the financial side wasn't a hurdle, what cards would you switch out for what.
Keep up the great work!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goblin Grenade mixed with a Krenko Mob Boss is OP!
I freakin' LOVE my Krenko commander deck, and it works OK as a singleton deck. I am working on an BRG deck with Shattergang Brothers too.
Voracious Dragon has fun goblin synergy too
These are greeaaaat !!!!!! Superb content!!!
I built a tribal goblin deck with 3 krenkos, kiki jiki, goblin recruiter, rabblemaster, piledriver, warchief, goblin matron, Warren instigator and so on and i can't stop winning. My friends don't want to play with me already and it's been only a week I built the deck.
I'm even bored of wining all the time. Goblins are very powerful when they are together. My favourite tribe in magic by far.
While I do appreciate the value of budget decklists as a way of introducing people to the format, I would love to see some more advanced, "money is no object" deck primers. Keep up the good work!
Vonsen08 I'll get to those eventually in Highlander. Maybe I can even get a hold of some of the good folks in Berlin and Victoria and show off decks that win in their actual competitive tournaments. For Modern, I started out small and now am talking advanced and expensive stuff and plan to do the same when I eventually get to Cube and...well...in Pauper even the high end "money is no limit" stuff is cheap...which is niiiiiiiiice.
You should do more of these. Maybe a treefolk or soldier.
That charbelcher is especially good if you managed to get out the goblin recruiter, to rearrange all your goblins to the top
Hey TCC, I love your stuff! Do you think you'd be able to do an EDH deck for Jund Dragons? Dragons have always been my favorite creature type in Magic and I'm just getting into EDH. So maybe in the future you can! That would be awesome. Have a good day!
A huge chunk of this deck mirrors my Krenko EDH deck, but there are several cards that were mentioned that may be finding their way into said Krenko deck...
This was excellent.
I noticed you didn't include a Goblin Rabblemaster? Is it due to his current popularity or his forcing your goblins to attack?
+PandaJohn71 Goblin Rabblemaster is a two edged blade, I believe the reason he wasn't included in the video is because last time I checked he had a very high price tag; if you can afford to pout him in the deck by all means do it, just remmber that he can cause key goblins to get killed in the processes of his forced attacks.
He no longer has a high price tag. He's maybe a $4-6 card depending on foil, promo, or regular. He actually cracked him in an M15 draft with my friends.
I really enjoyed the clean presentation of your Goblins Highlander deck. It reminded me of MS Powerpoint, but maybe you use something fancier. Length was a bit long, but your brief commentary of each card kept our attention. One thing, professor, I thought you were trolling us by waiting to mention Siege-Gang Commander for so long till near the end. Anyway, great deck review video.
naejin Yeah, it did run a bit long, that was part of what delayed it from being released. I just had a lot to say about it.
Tolarian Community College longer is better. these kids today and their attention spans lol
Nice vid Tolarian! At 8:25 you say that Pyroknesis is a great finisher, but it can only damage creatures, not players. Maybe you could use Stoke the Flames or even Purphoros, God of the Forge instead of that Pyroknesis. The deck looks great and a lot fun to play! =)
Great video, thank you for sharing. I'll make sure to share it with all my friends (and get them to subscribe!) Do you think you'll be doing more highlander deck videos? I think this would make a fantastic series. And if so, can I request you do a deck based around U/G and/or the Cascade mechanic? Could be tons of fun and powerfully competitive! Thanks again!
What are your thoughts on an Obelisk of Urd for a Goblin deck? There are always some weaklings that could be used for the Convoke mechanic and the overall boost is pretty nice.
Also, I'd like to see your take on a blue-black Ninjutsu/Sabotage deck (60 card) as I am still trying to optimize mine.
I actually play a Goblin Deck like this. It works amazingly!, The look on your opponents face when your 7 1/1 goblins become 3/3. Classic!
Would Goblin Lackey, Cavern of Souls, Mutavault, Goblin Piledriver and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx be good in this deck?
Luca Scanu i would think so but they are all pretty pricy and it seems this was being build on a budget at the time of release (blood moon now risen to $45) also a rabblemaster would be good as well.
sythmaster0 Cavern of Souls is very pricey, mutavault isn't a must have but with all goblins getting so many abilities, it won't be a 2/2 after turn 3-5. Nykthos would be brilliant later game
When you have around 15+ red mana symbols so getting that much mana would allow you to dump all thats in your hand. Goblin Piledriver is quite cheap now at around £8 at my locals and is easy to get your hands on.
Goblin Lackey is to powerful to be left out of this deck I think. Getting a free goblin turn 2. Imagine this:
Turn 1: Goblin Lackey
Turn 2: Goblin Piledriver, attack with Lackey, put Goblin Chieftain on the battlefield, all Goblins get +1+1 and haste.
Turn 3: Hordeling Outburst, they get +1+1 and haste. Attack with Lackey who is a 2/2, put Goblin King down, give them all +1+1 and Mountainwalk so Lackey is now a 3/3. Attack with Goblin Chieftain now a 4/4, attack with all 3 of the 3/3 Goblin Tokens and attack with Goblin Piledriver, it started a 1/2, got +1+1 twice so is a 3/4, but you attacked with 5 other Goblins so it gets +10+0 so is now a 13/4
They all have Mountainwalk so if my opponents have a mountain they are unblock able so 19 damage gets through on turn 3, and 20 damage by turn 3. Half of their life gone on turn 3!
Thier price is justified. :)
sythmaster0 Sorry for the looooong ass comment lol :)
+Luca Scanu in a 100 card deck the chance of that happening is probably lower than you getting struck by lightning.
SuperRaids13 Lol, I meant to say the Modern Goblins deck I might build.
I would always argue for throwing in Valakut. Yeah there's the non-bo with Blood Moon, but knowing that it'll be destroyed ASAP, and wanting more utility out of my lands late game, I can't help but smile at a lightning bolt-ing land :)
egyptcraze Valakut absolutely is great in this deck. I left it out on purpose, because I was trying to streamline the deck into a "more than one card having the same or similar function" template, and Valakut is pretty much one of a kind.
Tolarian Community College Since FRF and DTK have released, there's been a number of cards on my radar to maybe add to this list. How do you feel about the options of Dragon Fodder, Impact Tremmors, Mardu Scout and (Goblin Heelcutter or) Zurgo Bellstriker. The idea of adding Impact tremmors lies in quickly trying to get your goblins out. As it will deal 1 damage to ALL opponents, synergizing this with Hordling Outburst, Dragon Fodder, some of the tutors, Beetleback Chief and even Krenko, the synergy is dirty effective. How do you feel about it proffessor?
Love goblins!!!
Great list I only really miss Goblin piledriver for this aggro approach. I run a Krenko EDH deck and besides some combo pieces (Kiki/Lightning crafter/Thornbite staff/etc.) it's p similar to this so I can easily switch between those two formats with the deck. Same goes for my Ezuri and Gisa deck (I'm a sucker for tribal decks).
I really like the evasion enablers I wasn't aware of many of those so thanks =)
O yeah, Five-alarm fire is also great if you have a bunch of goblins but are getting brickwalled. Just convert combat damage into direct damage, I first kinda scoffed at this card cause I thought you'd have to sacrifice it after you removed the counters. Turns out you don't and it's been amazing ever since.
Thanks for the tips and confirmation that this mostly works as a commander deck. I was pretty sure it would, but not be very competitive. Bought the list and sleeved it up last night. Probably going to play first game with it tonight. I like your upgrades. Found some others here: archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/deck/889 Do you run blood moon in yours?
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In EDH Goblins isn't super competitive because Krenko draws all the hate (and rightly so). You are always the first target for most players because you can go off turn 3/4. In 1v1 (Duel commander) the deck is super competitive.
Yeah I run Bloodmoon it's amazing and much needed disruption, also run chaos warp for multiplayer. That card is OK in 1v1 because you can't tuck commanders in that format but it's still cheap removal in red so heh.
Also Warp World is a fun card to check out, it's completely bonkers if you have a bunch of Goblin tokens out on the field.
I really love these themed decks. Could a zombie or vampire deck build be requested?
I like Goblins. Got two 60-card Goblin decks a mono red raid bombardment and a black/blue Goblin Rogue/Prowl deck, both are great fun to play.
You mention assigning Krenko as the Commander, which seems an obvious choice. How do you think the deck would do in a Commander multiplayer environment (3-5 players)? Will it run out of fuel (burns / goblins to sac) too quickly to work?
You make really good videos, I hope you keep at it. :)
Goblin Bushwacker is pretty good to use, along with Goblin Wardriver
What about frenzied goblins?
I didn't see it in your list of other decks have you build a commander Goblin deck? I would be very interested in seeing it
Porting this almost card for card over to EDH. I've been playing controlish decks. This will be fun and unexpected coming from me :)
Would rabblemaster be a good inclusion in the deck? I already own 1
Michele Kleyling Absolutely.
I was about to ask the same thing. I love that guy😃
If you played him early game though, wouldn't he be more of a burden because of his ability for all other goblins to attack each turn?
Trav Walters they are goblins thats what they do
I have always been kind of on the blue side of magic... never really liked red winnies or burn. I haven't played Commander yet. However, this is going to be my commander deck. Period. If not for the awesome shenanigans goblins provide... then for ALL that flavor text I just read. Goblins have unquestionably the most well humored flavor text.
For anyone who didn't pay attention... watch the video again and pause to appreciate over 20 years of goblin flavor xD
The only thing that disappoints me is the extreme lack of Goblin planeswalkers. Almost any goblin deck is easy to pilot and generally gets you results and the lack of any planeswalkers to help pilot or be a staple in any red fashioned deck seems criminal to me. Daretti is nice and I do love playing him. But he dosen't scream play goblins with me. Red has always been a color that never lets me down from burn to aggro. Red has always been a color that no matter what. I can almost always make a Red Aggro/Burn. Sure is it always competitive? no. But is it always fun to play? HELLZ YEAH! Now I do love Chandra, Sarkhan, Koth, and even Tibalt (mostly flavor wise he embodies the madness of red. But needs to be tone down a bit). But nothing for the red players to really compete with the other colors.
Any ways as always great video! I love introducing people to goblin decks and if I can set them up with an easy to understand video to help guide them towards that is always a plus.
I personally like to add Ogre Battledriver to any Krenko or pretty much any red tokenbuild. Killed ppl for over 50 damage multiple times with the goblin + battledriver combo.
Could the new Vance's Blasting cannons be good in this deck? I can imagine the hordes of goblins you would be able to spew out in mid-late game.
Although its just my opinion. maybe you should add
-Mogg conscript
-goblin cohort
-goblin grappler.
great deck! i will add goblin lackey for a turn 2 krenko hahaha.
Great video, the delay was effeminately worth it.
Already starting to assemble this deck. Should I add my Goblin Rabblemaster?
Walter Lewin Absolutely. He's not in my build, but he EASILY could be.
would it be okay to add lands in exchange for the mountains like Rogue's Passage, it gives unblockable to a creature for 4 mana. 34 red mana and 1 colorless is okay right?
10:27 How is stingscourger a token generator?? I think Chancellor of the forge is a better pick for token generation.
Adam Prueher Sploops! Sorry, he should be in the utility section.
Tolarian Community College Would you run a Chancellor of the Forge in this deck or not?
Adam Prueher I feel he is too expensive for what we are trying to accomplish.
Would Valakut be a good choice as you're running mono red in this build?
Did you ever consider playing Clickslither in this deck? just a thought for another huge bomb, reckless one? By the way, I love your content and I would love to see more like this in the future!
Norin the wary was printed in Timespiral :)
Love it, but how does Stingscourger make tokens?
I collect all the cards that say "goblin", from creatures to enchantments, instants,etc.
But I have a rule, I must not buy one or any card directly in any shop or anyone.
I can only trade them with other people or from picking them in boosters, fat packs, booster boxes. etc.
I have all of them organized alphabetic from Alpha to the last expansion in a album and every pocket says the card name that is missing, so when I acquire a goblin he is putted in order.
I have only 74 goblin cards, being the Goblin Balloon Brigade from 4th edition my oldest, but its a start :)
Is there a way for goblins to be played in standard? Is there a deck list I can look at for?
Tolarian-can you do a video on card lot? I will like to hear your opinion if card lots are worth the money.
You confused Goblin Warchief and Goblin Chieftain at the beginning. :P Also, Boggart Ramgang is also green, so does that mean he couldn't be in your EDH deck because it's not only in Krenko's color?
i recently added Goblin Snowman (yep i did) and really surprised people with it. can block anything and no damage is done. that give him death touch and block then ping for the kill lol.
Will you do a booster box game for fate reforged?
Is it worth it since it's not as big of a set as khans or M15?
No Goblin Lackey?Eitherway great video specially i was building Krenko commander so this video had great suggestions to finish it.Suprise at no Shared Animosity in the deck.That card seems really scary for a goblin deck.Also Outpost Siege from Fate Reforged is going to be baeutifull in this deck
Do goblin lords count as legendary? (Idk because it's an older type of card) Also Tolarian, which card would you make commander if you don't have a commander and need a quick deck?
Would there be any changes to turn this into a EDH deck?
Puphuros god of the forge? I run him in my goblin edh deck. Great vid :)
Could you please do a video on drafting? If you could it would mean a lot!
"But, if you are easily impressed by sheer firepower then you're about to be...blown away" I don't know about you but I think I laughed so hard I broke a rib, no joke (and it wasn't even that funny)
Derek Hwang Jokes that aren't very funny are often the funniest ones. #dadjokes
this is awesome and i'm making a goblin commander deck and this helped me thank you. Can you do a video of a Faerie commander or highlander deck for Oona, Queen of the Fae? Since i want to make tribal decks after i finished my goblin deck.
Thoughts on Goblin Piledriver?
+David Fryer (Finmoploy) I'd highly recommend adding him, he's a really good card and if you can get him through he can cause tremendous damage.
Whith Fate reforged coming out soon, could you make a vid. Oj the top set based by reaction on release?
No Goblin Piledriver? No raging goblin? Blasphemy! Also, imo, Goblin Cohort is the most underrated goblin ever printed. I play goblins every turn, so I basically get 2/2's for 1 when I play them. Awesome!
Why not the Reckless one as a bomb for the deck? I always find it amazing in a goblin deck
hey i was wondering if you could possible make a video on a mardu or jeski control deck. or let alone sideboard options for control, i recently got into mardu and its a good deck but i fail againt rabble red or sidisi whip, i wanted to know what your opinions are on control decks in those colors, love the channel!
So i just ordered the rest of the cards to build this deck. My question is, if im playing against an opponent that uses enchantments and artifacts. What hate cards are in or can i add to this goblin deck?
PROFESSOR! Is there a way to perhaps have a highlander deck AND a commander deck that you could use for both but just switch out a few cards as needed for each format? I love both but don't have the funds currently to play both.
DCAMM720 in his highlander video where he goes over the rules he says that if you build a good highlander deck it can be used as EDH just add a commander or take an existing legendary from the deck to use, since highlanders are build for synergy with each other not just the commander.
Where is the goblin bushwacker or reckless bushwacker
Just watched your recent video on 5 things viewers can do to help content creators and I'm curious if actually finishing watching the ad before the video helps you. Do you get penalized if we hit skip ad or do you get more ad revenue if we watch all the way through the ad?
Why no Valakut or cyclelands?