Hello everyone! I'm back with yet another Deck! One of my first ever decks and a tribe that is very dear to my heart was... Goblins. So I am super-excited to be playing one of my favourite tribes in a format where the goal is killing your opponents ASAP. This is 8-Whack Goblins! The deck is named after playing Eight Whacks, which are four Reckless Bushwhacker and four Goblin Bushwhacker, the deck's name is also a play on "8-Rack". So let's get to the deck:
You will like this deck if you:
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Love Goblins as a tribe to play in Modern
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You like turning your creatures sideways
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Winning on either turn 3 or 4.
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Playing a budget deck that can win in Modern!!!
You won't like playing this deck if you:
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Hate Goblins and hate Red (booo!)
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Don't like tribal strategies
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Want something top-tier.
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Prefer playing combo, control or midrange decks.
Your Goblin All-Stars
Goblin Guide one of the best one-drops ever for Red and it's a Goblin. Instant Auto-include.
Foundry Street Denizen one of the best one-drops this deck has. It's possible this card can deal as much as three damage as soon as two!
Mogg Fanatic is a surprisingly good card in this deck. As it can take down any creature with one toughness, and they are a lot of them in Modern such as Noble Hierarch, Snapcaster Mage, Eldrazi Mimic, Birds of Paradise. And it can even act as a Gut Shot if your opponents are down to one life.
Legion Loyalist this is probably one of the most important one-drops in the deck. Legion Loyalist gives our team Trample and First Strike and gives your strike team "can't be blocked by creature tokens" which is really relevant against Lingering Souls or Pyromancer Decks. It also works well with Goblin Piledriver
Mogg War Marshal this card provides some protection if you suspect your opponents have a board wipe. Also producing 1/1 Goblins is nice.
Goblin Piledriver is your deck's heavy hitter. It can potentially hit for 10-12 damage and works really well with Legion Loyalist.
Your Bushwhackers
Your Bushwhackers is the main reason for playing this deck. You definitely need four Goblin Bushwhacker and Reckless Bushwhacker. You usually want to play them around turn three for the nice army pumping effect to deal the most damage.
Goblin Chieftain does a very good Bushwhacker impression. It gives our team haste and let's our goblins hit for extra damage.
Reach
Lightning Bolt cause Lightning Bolt. This is modern if you aren't playing Lightning Bolt in a Red Deck you are doing it wrong.
Goblin Grenade is the reason you want to play Goblins. Five damage for one mana is insane in Modern! Losing 5 life is nothing to laugh at, especially if your opponent is playing fetchlands and shocklands and you have hit them very hard with your Goblins. This card can definitely win you games.
The Game Plan
The ideal way to playing this deck is play a one-drop on turn one, two one-drops on turn two (or Mogg War Marshal), followed by one-drop into a Bushwhacker on turn three, which means we will have our opponent down to somewhere between 6 and 10 life. That low life total allows us to either attack for lethal on turn four, possibly with the help of another Bushwhacker, or finish the game with Goblin Grenade or Lightning Bolt.
Sideboard
Tormod's Crypt for Graveyard Hate
Smash to Smithereens for Affinity or for Chalice of the voids.
Forked Bolt for taking out one drops.
Searing Blood for more creature heavy decks.
Goblin Piledriver if we need another heavy hitter.
Goblin Chieftain if we need another Bushwhacker.
Magus of the Moon and Blood Moon for locking your opponent out of the game.
