Ib Halfheart, Goblin Sac-tician [PRIMER]
Commander / EDH
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It's Time To Party! —April 14, 2017
I'm so happy that everyone has loved this deck so much! It has been awesome so far.
In just the short time this deck has been on TappedOut it has already shot to the #2 spot for Ib decks in both views and upvotes, second only to the infallible Ib +99 Mountains deck.
Not only that, we got all the way to the Top Ten Overall for the day on April 11th! That is just fantastic.
To celebrate, Ib is throwing a party, and there ain't no party like an Ib Halfheart party 'cuz an Ib Halfheart party has...
MASS LAND DYSFUNCTION AND STAX!
We've traded out some of our cuter cards (ILU4EVA Liquimetal Coating!) for some meaner stuff, because Ib hates when other inferior commanders win without sacrificing any Goblins to do so!
To pull this off we are adding 69% more STAX and 131% more Land Destruction in the form of....
Price of Glory (and possibly Defense Grid as well)
Skred (maybe)
And if my math is correct that puts us at 200% more explosive games!
There will be a lot of minor tweaks coming in the next few days, as I get Ib settled into his new position on top of his new smoldering heap.
Stay tuned, and thanks for reading!
Liquidbeaver says... #3
Revisiting STAX ideas I had before in an effort to make the deck more competitive outside my playgroup. Now that I am thinking about it again, I probably had the right idea, and was just using the wrong form of STAX for this deck. That may explain why it felt so clunky.
April 7, 2017 1:15 p.m.
Liquidbeaver says... #4
Mana Echoes out, Goblin Sledder in!
Mana Echoes was creating a ton of mana, but unfortunately I didn't have any mana sinks to dump it into, and often several hundred colorless mana would fizzle. On top of that, at a 4 cost, there are a lot of other more impactful things I would rather play that turn.
I've been trying to find a space for Sledder for a long time. He is a very strong sac outlet in this deck. Since the ability has no cost, we can sac at instant speed to buff up a Lieutenant to save them from dying to damage, sac all blocked goblins before they blow up to buff up the unblocked goblin that was let through, or even on the other side of the table to make a previously one-sided battle hurt both opponents.
On top of that, he is riding another Goblin down a mountain...
100% ON THEME AUTO-INCLUDE!
Liquidbeaver says... #2
Thoughts on these two cards? Insult//Injury is an auto-include as far as I'm concerned right now.
April 5, 2017 9:29 p.m. Edited.