Swarming with Goblins - AJ Anderson (11/23/2006)

Hi there and welcome to another installment of my ramblings on fun Magic deck ideas. I'm pretty sure that I don't really need to go into the whole ´´Time Spiral

Time Spiral
	Set: Urza's Saga Cost: 6 Color: Blue Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Number: 103 Artist: Michael Sutfin Text: Remove Time Spiral from the game. Each player shuffles his or her graveyard and hand into his or her library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.

made me wet my pants with glee´´ stuff that everyone else is saying (even though I just did). In addition to reprinting classic cards like Squire

Squire
	Set: The Dark Cost: 2 Color: White Type: Creature Sub Type: Squire Rarity: C Artist: Dennis Detwiller Power: 1 Toughness: 2

and Eron the Relentless

Eron the Relentless
	Set: Homelands Cost: 5 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Legend Rarity: U Artist: Christopher Rush Power: 5 Toughness: 2 Text: Eron the Relentless can attack the turn it comes into play on your side.RRR: Regenerate

, Time Spiral

Time Spiral
	Set: Urza's Saga Cost: 6 Color: Blue Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Number: 103 Artist: Michael Sutfin Text: Remove Time Spiral from the game. Each player shuffles his or her graveyard and hand into his or her library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.

gave us some really cool new cards like Norin the Wary

Norin the Wary
	Set: Time Spiral Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Legendary Creature Sub Type: Human Warrior Rarity: R Number: 171 Artist: Heather Hudson Power: 2 Toughness: 1 Text: When a player plays a spell or a creature attacks, remove Norin the Wary from the game. Return it to play under its owner's control at end of turn.

and Viscerid Deepwalker

Viscerid Deepwalker

Set: Time Spiral Cost: 5 Color: Blue Type: Creature Sub Type: Homarid Warrior Rarity: C Number: 91 Artist: Heather Hudson Power: 2 Toughness: 3 Text: U: Viscerid Deepwalker gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Suspend 4-U (Rather than play this card from your hand, you may pay U and remove it from the game with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When you remove the last, play it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)

. Don't worry, that was badly used sarcasm for which I apologize (except the Norin comment - I swear that I will find a way to break him!). But in all seriousness, one of the new cards in Time Spiral

Time Spiral
	Set: Urza's Saga Cost: 6 Color: Blue Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Number: 103 Artist: Michael Sutfin Text: Remove Time Spiral from the game. Each player shuffles his or her graveyard and hand into his or her library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.

that made me drool was Empty the Warrens

Empty the Warrens
	Set: Time Spiral Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 152 Artist: Mark Brill Text: Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play. Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.)

. For a couple of years now, I've had a paper Magic deck based on Goblin Warrens

Goblin Warrens
	Set: Fifth Edition Cost: 3 Color: Red Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Artist: Dan Frazier Text: 2R, Sacrifice two Goblins: Put three Goblin tokens into play. Treat these tokens as 1/1 red creatures.

and Mana Echoes

Mana Echoes
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Number: 218 Artist: Christopher Moeller Text: Whenever a creature comes into play, you may add 1 to your mana pool for each creature you control that shares a creature type with it.

(generates a lot of mana for X burn spells). Once I saw Empty the Warrens

Empty the Warrens
	Set: Time Spiral Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 152 Artist: Mark Brill Text: Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play. Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.)

, I knew it was time to build a similar deck on Magic Online.

Nearly every card from my original deck was available online except Goblin Warrens

Goblin Warrens
	Set: Fifth Edition Cost: 3 Color: Red Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Artist: Dan Frazier Text: 2R, Sacrifice two Goblins: Put three Goblin tokens into play. Treat these tokens as 1/1 red creatures.

and Mogg Infestation

Mogg Infestation
	Set: Stronghold Cost: 5 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Number: 93 Artist: Pete Venters Text: Destroy all creatures target player controls. For each creature put into any graveyard in this way, put two Goblin tokens into play under that player's control. Treat these tokens as 1/1 red creatures.

so rebuilding it online was pretty simple. The online version (pre-Time Spiral

Time Spiral
	Set: Urza's Saga Cost: 6 Color: Blue Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Number: 103 Artist: Michael Sutfin Text: Remove Time Spiral from the game. Each player shuffles his or her graveyard and hand into his or her library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.

release) was based around Mana Echoes

Mana Echoes
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Number: 218 Artist: Christopher Moeller Text: Whenever a creature comes into play, you may add 1 to your mana pool for each creature you control that shares a creature type with it.

and dropping a bunch of Goblins in one turn to drop lots of tokens from the Rakdos Guildmage

Rakdos Guildmage
	Set: Dissension Color: Multicolor Rarity: U Number: 145 Artist: Jeremy Jarvis

, flip up a Warbreak Trumpeter

Warbreak Trumpeter
	Set: Legions Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: U Number: 116 Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Morph XXR (You may play this face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When Warbreak Trumpeter is turned face up, put X 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play.

, or use a burn spell. It worked okay, but the reliance on Mana Echoes

Mana Echoes
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Number: 218 Artist: Christopher Moeller Text: Whenever a creature comes into play, you may add 1 to your mana pool for each creature you control that shares a creature type with it.

to really pump out the kill was hard to always pull off. My eagerness quickly turned to disappointment and I turned to working on a Tamanoa

Tamanoa
	Set: Coldsnap Cost: 3 Color: Multicolor Type: Creature Sub Type: Spirit Rarity: R Number: 132 Artist: rk post Power: 2 Toughness: 4 Text: Whenever a noncreature source you control deals damage, you gain that much life.

deck (the centerpiece of my last article). Finally, Time Spiral

Time Spiral
	Set: Urza's Saga Cost: 6 Color: Blue Type: Sorcery Rarity: R Number: 103 Artist: Michael Sutfin Text: Remove Time Spiral from the game. Each player shuffles his or her graveyard and hand into his or her library, then draws seven cards. You untap up to six lands.

was released online and I went to work improving my Goblin Token

Goblin Token
	Set: Anthologies Color: Red Type: Token Rarity: U Number: 92 Artist: Pete Venters Text: Note, this card is the Unglued Goblin token. There was no difference in the Anthologies version.

deck. As I always do at first, I play with over 70 cards in the deck to see what works and what doesn't. Slowly, it began to show that having Mana Echoes

Mana Echoes
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Number: 218 Artist: Christopher Moeller Text: Whenever a creature comes into play, you may add 1 to your mana pool for each creature you control that shares a creature type with it.

in the deck was slowing me down, despite this supposedly being a centerpiece of the deck.

To test my theory, I dropped the Mana Echoes

Mana Echoes
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Number: 218 Artist: Christopher Moeller Text: Whenever a creature comes into play, you may add 1 to your mana pool for each creature you control that shares a creature type with it.

and X-spells from the deck, dropping the deck size down to 68 cards. Suddenly I could see a new exciting pattern developing. This disappointment of a deck was winning 3 out of every 4 games. After more playtesting and editing, I dropped 3 In the Web of War

In the Web of War
	Set: Betrayers of Kamigawa Cost: 5 Color: Red Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Number: 108 Artist: Ron Spencer Text: Whenever a creature comes into play under your control, it gets +2/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

(it was great when I had an Empty the Warrens

Empty the Warrens
	Set: Time Spiral Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 152 Artist: Mark Brill Text: Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play. Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.)

coming but that was about it) as well as one Rakdos Guildmage

Rakdos Guildmage
	Set: Dissension Color: Multicolor Rarity: U Number: 145 Artist: Jeremy Jarvis

(the Mana Echoes

Mana Echoes
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Number: 218 Artist: Christopher Moeller Text: Whenever a creature comes into play, you may add 1 to your mana pool for each creature you control that shares a creature type with it.

combo wasn't there anymore and he isn't even a Goblin). This dropped me to 60 cards and the final version I am proud to present to you now.

Goblin Madness Deck (60 cards)
Land (21):
21 Mountain

Mountain
	Set: Arabian Nights Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: C Artist: Douglas Shuler Text: Tap to add R to your mana pool.

s

Creatures (27):
4 Skirk Prospector

Skirk Prospector
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: C Number: 230 Artist: Doug Chaffee Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Sacrifice a Goblin: Add R to your mana pool.

4 Mogg War Marshal

Mogg War Marshal

Set: Time Spiral Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Warrior Rarity: C Number: 170 Artist: Wayne England Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Echo 1R (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When Mogg War Marshal comes into play or is put into a graveyard from play, put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token into play.

3 Goblin Warchief

Goblin Warchief
	Set: Scourge Cost: 3 Color: Red Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: U Number: 97 Artist: Tim Hildebrandt Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Goblin spells you play cost 1 less to play. Goblins you control have haste.

3 Reckless One

Reckless One
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Avatar Rarity: U Number: 222 Artist: Ron Spencer Power: * Toughness: * Text: Haste. Reckless One's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Goblins. in play.

3 Rakdos Guildmage

Rakdos Guildmage
	Set: Dissension Color: Multicolor Rarity: U Number: 145 Artist: Jeremy Jarvis

3 Gempalm Incinerator

Gempalm Incinerator
	Set: Legions Cost: 3 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: U Number: 94 Power: 2 Toughness: 1 Text: Cycling 1R (1R, Discard this card from your hand: Draw a card.) When you cycle Gempalm Incinerator, you may have it deal X damage to target creature, where X is the number of Goblins in play.

3 Warbreak Trumpeter

Warbreak Trumpeter
	Set: Legions Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: U Number: 116 Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Morph XXR (You may play this face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When Warbreak Trumpeter is turned face up, put X 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play.

2 Goblin Lookout

Goblin Lookout
	Set: Legions Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: C Number: 101 Artist: Jim Nelson Power: 1 Toughness: 2 Text: T, Sacrifice a Goblin: All Goblins get +2/+0 until end of turn.

2 Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician

Ib Halfheart, Goblin Tactician
	Set: Time Spiral Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Legendary Creature Sub Type: Goblin Advisor Rarity: R Number: 163 Artist: Wayne Reynolds Power: 3 Toughness: 2 Text: Whenever another Goblin you control becomes blocked, sacrifice it. If you do, it deals 4 damage to each creature blocking it. Sacrifice two Mountains: Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play.

Artifacts (2):
2 Sensei's Divining Top

Sensei's Divining Top
	Set: Champions of Kamigawa Cost: 1 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: U Number: 268 Artist: Michael Sutfin Text: 1: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. T: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

Instants/Sorceries (10):
3 Brightstone Ritual

Brightstone Ritual
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 191 Artist: Wayne England Text: Add R to your mana pool for each Goblin in play.

3 Seething Song

Seething Song
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 3 Color: Red Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 104 Artist: Martina Pilcerova Text: Add RRRRR to your mana pool.

4 Empty the Warrens

Empty the Warrens
	Set: Time Spiral Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 152 Artist: Mark Brill Text: Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play. Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.)

After guiding this deck through several incarnations online, I've been testing this version for a while now and I'm happy to say that it wins at least 80 percent of the time. A typical game for this deck goes as such:
Turn 1 - Mountain

Mountain
	Set: Arabian Nights Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: C Artist: Douglas Shuler Text: Tap to add R to your mana pool.

, Skirk Prospector

Skirk Prospector
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: C Number: 230 Artist: Doug Chaffee Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Sacrifice a Goblin: Add R to your mana pool.

Turn 2 - Mountain

Mountain
	Set: Arabian Nights Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: C Artist: Douglas Shuler Text: Tap to add R to your mana pool.

, Rakdos Guildmage

Rakdos Guildmage
	Set: Dissension Color: Multicolor Rarity: U Number: 145 Artist: Jeremy Jarvis

Turn 3 – Mountain

Mountain
	Set: Arabian Nights Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: C Artist: Douglas Shuler Text: Tap to add R to your mana pool.

, Goblin Warchief

Goblin Warchief
	Set: Scourge Cost: 3 Color: Red Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: U Number: 97 Artist: Tim Hildebrandt Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Goblin spells you play cost 1 less to play. Goblins you control have haste.

or Seething Song

Seething Song
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 3 Color: Red Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 104 Artist: Martina Pilcerova Text: Add RRRRR to your mana pool.

, Warbreak Trumpeter

Warbreak Trumpeter
	Set: Legions Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: U Number: 116 Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Morph XXR (You may play this face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When Warbreak Trumpeter is turned face up, put X 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play.

(face-up), Empty the Warrens

Empty the Warrens
	Set: Time Spiral Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 152 Artist: Mark Brill Text: Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play. Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.)

Turn 4 - Reckless One

Reckless One
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Avatar Rarity: U Number: 222 Artist: Ron Spencer Power: * Toughness: * Text: Haste. Reckless One's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Goblins. in play.

or Ib Halheart
Turn 5 (if the game's not over yet) - Brightstone Ritual

Brightstone Ritual
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 191 Artist: Wayne England Text: Add R to your mana pool for each Goblin in play.

, pump out lots of Goblins from the Guildmage, attack for the win

Now for some analysis: This deck wins by pumping out a lot of little critters and running over as fast as possible. With a good opening hand, it is quite possible to have well over 6 creatures on turn 3.

-The Skirk Prospector

Skirk Prospector
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: C Number: 230 Artist: Doug Chaffee Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Sacrifice a Goblin: Add R to your mana pool.

is an excellent source of mana-acceleration. Thanks to this fella, I have been able to play as many as 3 Empty the Warrens

Empty the Warrens
	Set: Time Spiral Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 152 Artist: Mark Brill Text: Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play. Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.)

by turn 4 by sacrificing the first spell's tokens to fuel the mana for the others and so on.

-The Mogg War Marshal

Mogg War Marshal

Set: Time Spiral Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Warrior Rarity: C Number: 170 Artist: Wayne England Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Echo 1R (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When Mogg War Marshal comes into play or is put into a graveyard from play, put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token into play.

is also a lot of fun because you can often play him and then sacrifice him to gain more mana and yet another Goblin. I rarely ever pay his echo cost because in dying, he just gives me another token to replace himself.

-The Goblin Warchief

Goblin Warchief
	Set: Scourge Cost: 3 Color: Red Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: U Number: 97 Artist: Tim Hildebrandt Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Goblin spells you play cost 1 less to play. Goblins you control have haste.

gives all of my tokens haste and even helps make my Goblins cheaper (for example, a Mogg War Marshal

Mogg War Marshal

Set: Time Spiral Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Warrior Rarity: C Number: 170 Artist: Wayne England Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Echo 1R (At the beginning of your upkeep, if this came under your control since the beginning of your last upkeep, sacrifice it unless you pay its echo cost.) When Mogg War Marshal comes into play or is put into a graveyard from play, put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token into play.

would cost only one mana which gives me three more mana with the Prospector).

-The Reckless One

Reckless One
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Avatar Rarity: U Number: 222 Artist: Ron Spencer Power: * Toughness: * Text: Haste. Reckless One's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Goblins. in play.

is the main ´´big-nasty´´ of the deck, usually forcing my opponent to block him and let my little tokens run free.

-The Rakdos Guildmage

Rakdos Guildmage
	Set: Dissension Color: Multicolor Rarity: U Number: 145 Artist: Jeremy Jarvis

is a 2-mana 2/2, who transforms any mana overflow into more Goblins. The drawback from losing the tokens at the end of turn can be overruled if you sacrifice them during your second main phase with the Prospector and turn their deaths into new spells.

-The Gempalm Incinerator

Gempalm Incinerator
	Set: Legions Cost: 3 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: U Number: 94 Power: 2 Toughness: 1 Text: Cycling 1R (1R, Discard this card from your hand: Draw a card.) When you cycle Gempalm Incinerator, you may have it deal X damage to target creature, where X is the number of Goblins in play.

serves a dual purpose in the deck. First, you can cheaply cycle it to zap an opposing creature and draw a card. Or you can play him to add to your Goblin creature count (especially helpful if you have a Goblin Warchief

Goblin Warchief
	Set: Scourge Cost: 3 Color: Red Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: U Number: 97 Artist: Tim Hildebrandt Power: 2 Toughness: 2 Text: Goblin spells you play cost 1 less to play. Goblins you control have haste.

in play)

-The Warbreak Trumpeter

Warbreak Trumpeter
	Set: Legions Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: U Number: 116 Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Morph XXR (You may play this face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) When Warbreak Trumpeter is turned face up, put X 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play.

is mostly a throw-back from the original design of the deck, but if you need to use him in the long run, you could morph him to pump out lots of little guys. Most of the time though, I find myself playing him face-up to add to my storm count. If you're not a fan of morph, you could always replace him with Boros Recruit

Boros Recruit
	Set: Ravnica City of Guilds Cost: 5 Color: Multicolor Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Soldier Rarity: C Number: 243 Artist: Keith Garletts Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: (R/W can be paid with either R or W.) First strike

s or Raging Goblin

Raging Goblin
	Set: Classic Sixth Edition Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: C Number: 200 Artist: Jeff Miracola Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Haste (This creature may attack and tap the turn it comes under your control.)

s.

-The Goblin Lookout

Goblin Lookout
	Set: Legions Cost: 2 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: C Number: 101 Artist: Jim Nelson Power: 1 Toughness: 2 Text: T, Sacrifice a Goblin: All Goblins get +2/+0 until end of turn.

is mainly there as a finisher. I tried having more copies, but they tended to take up space. And yet I can't deny their usefulness so I still have two in the deck.

-What is there to say about good ol' Ib Halfheart? He turns your tiny tokens into ticking time-bombs that make your opponent suddenly worry about their blockers. He also gives you more tokens if you really need them to finish the game. Just be careful sacrificing your Mountain

Mountain
	Set: Arabian Nights Color: Land Type: Land Rarity: C Artist: Douglas Shuler Text: Tap to add R to your mana pool.

s in case your opponent decides to cycle a Slice and Dice

Slice and Dice
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 6 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: U Number: 232 Artist: Mark Brill Text: Slice and Dice deals 4 damage to each creature. Cycling 2R (2R, Discard this card from your hand: Draw a card.) When you cycle Slice and Dice you may have it deal 1 damage to each creature.

. Ouch.

-I have 2 Sensei's Divining Top

Sensei's Divining Top
	Set: Champions of Kamigawa Cost: 1 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: U Number: 268 Artist: Michael Sutfin Text: 1: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. T: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.

s in every deck I play. EVERY deck. You can boohoo all you want about ´´Oh, the games drag on and on when someone plays a Top´´ but I play fast with mine and their card advantage always trumps the slow factor. [Editor’s note: There is no card advantage. There’s a card QUALITY advantage because it allows you sift through unneeded stuff.] Not to mention that they're hard to destroy, that's another great aspect of the card. And in this deck, if you want to toss out a big storm count, playing a Top for one mana certainly helps in that area.

-The Brightstone Ritual

Brightstone Ritual
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 191 Artist: Wayne England Text: Add R to your mana pool for each Goblin in play.

s and Seething Song

Seething Song
	Set: Mirrodin Cost: 3 Color: Red Type: Instant Rarity: C Number: 104 Artist: Martina Pilcerova Text: Add RRRRR to your mana pool.

s are there for massive acceleration. It's rare that I simply have them sitting in my hand with nothing to use on. If anything, they can fuel your tokens from the Rakdos Guildmage

Rakdos Guildmage
	Set: Dissension Color: Multicolor Rarity: U Number: 145 Artist: Jeremy Jarvis

. In most cases though, they will enable you to kick off a large storm count for Empty the Warrens

Empty the Warrens
	Set: Time Spiral Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 152 Artist: Mark Brill Text: Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play. Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.)

.

-Ah, and last but most certainly not least, we have Empty the Warrens

Empty the Warrens
	Set: Time Spiral Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Number: 152 Artist: Mark Brill Text: Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play. Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.)

. I simply cannot express how much I love this card. I rarely ever find myself playing this with less than 2 spells before it. And as I mentioned before, having a Skirk Prospector

Skirk Prospector
	Set: Onslaught Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Creature Sub Type: Goblin Rarity: C Number: 230 Artist: Doug Chaffee Power: 1 Toughness: 1 Text: Sacrifice a Goblin: Add R to your mana pool.

in play with multiple copies of this spell in your hand is beautiful.

Before I wrap up here, I want to warn you against the drawbacks to this deck. As you might have noticed, this is all-weenie madness. Any deck running constant damage or minus effects, like Caltrops

Caltrops
	Set: Urza's Destiny Cost: 3 Color: Colorless Type: Artifact Rarity: U Number: 129 Artist: Jeff Laubenstein Text: Whenever a creature attacks, Caltrops deals 1 damage to it.

or Night of Souls Betrayal

Betrayal
	Set: Visions Cost: 1 Color: Blue Type: Enchant Creature Rarity: C Artist: Gary Leach Text: Play only on a creature an opponent controls.If enchanted creature becomes tapped, draw a card.

, is going to destroy this deck and leave you huddled in the corner sobbing (I know this all too well…). I suggest sideboarding some cards like Goblin War Strike

Goblin War Strike
	Set: Portal Second Age Cost: 1 Color: Red Type: Sorcery Rarity: C Artist: Michael Weaver Text: Goblin War Strike deals to your opponent damage equal to the number of Goblin cards you have in play. (This includes both tapped and untapped Goblin cards.)

to overcome situations where you can't attack. For other games with NoSB, Noxious Ghoul

Noxious Ghoul
	Set: Legions Cost: 5 Color: Black Type: Creature Sub Type: Zombie Rarity: U Number: 77 Artist: Luca Zontini Power: 3 Toughness: 3 Text: Whenever Noxious Ghoul or another Zombie comes into play, all non-Zombie creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.

s, and similar effects, I'm sorry to say you're pretty screwed. Luckily, in the online Extended environment, those effects aren't very plentiful so this doesn't occur too often.

And so here we are, at the end of the article. Feel free to discuss the deck on the Cardshark discussion boards. That's it for now. Here's a little preview of my next deck idea/article… Pandemonium

Pandemonium
	Set: Exodus Cost: 4 Color: Red Type: Enchantment Rarity: R Number: 93 Artist: Pete Venters Text: Whenever any creature comes into play, that creature's controller may choose to have it deal damage equal to its power to target creature or player.

+ Vampires! Yummy! [Editor’s note: I’ve had this article in my inbox for 5 days now as of the day it was posted, which puts it well before the Magic website’s House of Cards article that runs a Vampdemonium deck. So AJ had the idea first, but I didn’t get it posted in time to be the first one up. My bad!] Until we meet again, may your top decks always help you win (except against me)!

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