Originally Posted by
Olaf Forkbeard
@gobolordL I was giving your list some play testing against a small amount of our paper proxy gauntlet and had a few notes.
Ideally your list wants to commit a Krenko, perhaps a second through a kill spell, and win with it. In that vein Chieftain makes sense on paper, but I found that the lack of cost reduction on Warchief was too big a burden to lose comparatively. If I have a Krenko, then it did not matter how big the tokens were, I had a lot of them, and therefor am winning. When I was behind it didn't do much to pull me back, as all I want to do when behind was to commit cards to the board. I think If I played a list like yours again it would be with a 4/1 or 3/2 split in favor of Warchief, as the ancillary of Chieftain is still good just a tad more than niche scenarios.
3 Krenko's felt like 1 too many for me, even with him as my primary game plan. Perhaps it's just my play style, with waiting and baiting, but I never felt like I needed the third, and actually felt it as a liability against Karakas decks (which is probably why you had Siege-Gang in the board). In addition to lowering the curve by 1 or 2. I'd probably be dropping one of him on this game plan in the future.
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@mistercakes
Good job, looking forward to it. Feels good to place high.
I would not play a list without at least 2 Mogg War Marshal right now. I'm actually trying to figure out how to fit more in my own list. I Strongly advise you don't drop him from the main, he's kind of the mid-game glue. I'd drop a finisher and something else, or perhaps 2 finisher's in your place for them. (I actually prefer Kiki-Jiki in WInstigator lists for reference though.)
I'm still not sold on Carpet of Flowers. My brain simply is telling me that it is a crutch style answer and not actually resolving the issue, but I'm willing to admit a probable bias here.
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@Dan Pyre
Good job as well, goblins doing well all over it seems. There was a period in my career of this deck where I ran 4 Leylines, and that period lasted about 5 months. The exact scenario you are listing that you want it for, is the exact reason I stopped running it. I loathe Leyline in the fair match-ups, it's super awkward in a match that goes to a grind, as it is usually the deadest available draw in the mid game, even if you have black mana. Just my opinion on that piece.
I think I still prefer the traditional list, so I don't sync with your sentiments on Piledriver, but I do agree that GoboLords list felt like it was ignoring that gameplan anyway, so it matters less. The traditional list just has a better clock overall in my experiences, and I value that type of push.
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I've been broke due to lack of a Job, but I recently started up one again, so maybe sometime soon I could get to play again in a competitive setting that isn't play testing. Here's to hoping. I'm getting that itch to play with something on the line.