{"ops":[{"insert":"Updated on 11/16/2022 (My Birthday!)\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000","background":"transparent"},"insert":"For those not in the know-how Legacy Goblins has the mana denial package and AEther Vial base that Death & Taxes contains. But the difference is where D&T has a lock piece, Goblins has card advantage and explosivity. The deck functions as a counter-puncher. With the exception of Lackey lines, it generally plays from behind, accruing card advantage and silver bullets via Goblin Ringleader, and Goblin Matron. Eventually powering through an opening with an overwhelming, and explosive, crack back. This is usually with an Aristocrats style finish, but as elves players know, 1/1s and 2/2s can get in the beats. Goblin Lackey itself can flip this mid-game plan on it’s head and accelerate that gameplan to a turn 3 or 4 kill via powerful cards like Sling-Gang Lieutenant or Muxus, Goblin Grandee. "},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000","background":"transparent","bold":true},"insert":"Pros:"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000","background":"transparent"},"insert":"A very positive Blood Moon match-up. Their prison gameplan is in-effective at best against a mostly red deck along with a low amount of 1 drops for their Cavern. It forces them to just play aggressive, which is drowned out by Ringleader and Muxus’s card advantage options. "},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000","background":"transparent"},"insert":"It’s hard to counter Goblins. Cavern of Souls and Aether Vial make life very hard for decks with Counterspells as a primary linchpin of dealing with problems. There is also a high amount of card advantage in Matron, Ringleader, and Muxus. These two combined give control decks fits, and force stalls, where the card advantage can be leveraged more. "},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000","background":"transparent"},"insert":"Rundevelt Hordemaster has turned the UR Murktide match-up into a more reasonable gameplan, allowing you to play tempo directly back at them, with an end game lifegain swing via Sling-Gang. I’ll take effectively converting the match into a coinflip, as the deck is broken."},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000","background":"transparent","bold":true},"insert":"Cons:"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000","background":"transparent"},"insert":"The deck *is* clunky, as it runs several 3 and 4 drop creatures, no counters, and light prison lands, which in turn costs it the spell based combo match-ups. Belcher and Oops are easily the worst match-ups in the format, but luckily those are held in check by the meta as a whole. The real combo decks that ignore creatures like TES, Doomsday, Depths, etc are still bad news on the whole though. The sideboard is often showing 11 or more cards completely dedicated to defeating fast combo, and their splash damage is for hedges in more fair match-ups, where Goblins doesn’t really need much help."},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000","background":"transparent","bold":true},"insert":"Additional Notes:"},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#000000","background":"transparent"},"insert":"The deck has a ton of lines available to it, and they are super easy to screw up. Because of Matron, Port, Wasteland, and the general expensive curve, picking between not casting your 4 drop for a Wasteland, to Matron becoming a card draw spell or a Flametongue Kavu, to knowing when to just be a beat down deck. It's pretty rough. This does translate to the deck having outs to a really large number of scenario's, but at the cost of some noticeable mental energy. It's really easy for someone to play the deck, or a line poorly, and have no idea what they did wrong, myself included."},{"insert":"\n"}]}