Krenko Direction, Need Advice
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Posted on Feb. 18, 2017, 9:58 p.m. by Flagellum
I'm looking for advice on how to build Krenko. I'm debating whether to keep building him or do something else. I also run a Purphoros deck that is mostly combo. It too relies on little green goblins to do the leg work but it is not a goblin tribal by any means.
Obviously loading the deck with goblins and adding haste effects is a given but the way I look at it is this. There are 3 main strategies involved here:
Fast aggro swarm: spit out cheap 1-2 CMC goblins and a haste effect for a turn 3-4 Krenko with haste, rinse repeat.
Krenko Combo: often involves Kiki-Jiki and Zealous Conscripts, ect. ect.
A mix of the two: lots of goblins with lots of ways to combo.
I think I'd like to build him towards the fast aggro route, sprinkled with things like Thornbite Staff, Magewright's Stone ect. ect. to essentially double the horde. Burn at the Stake, Goblin War Strike are also options but wouldn't go much beyond those. Combo Krenko is probably better for multiplayer. But here's the issue: is it going to be too similar to Purphoros, and if so should I just work on another project (none in mind yet).
smoosh Krenko and Purphoros together. They're basically the same deck.
As for play style, yeah, you want to build hte deck around getting infinite tokens. Or enough to at least swarm your opponents. That seems to be the best way to play him. Also, Impact Tremors.
February 19, 2017 8:45 a.m.
enpc I had them smooshed together lol. It's just without haste in Purphoros, Krenko sits there for a turn and usually eats removal before he's useful (and for good reason). Was possibly going to take him out to create his own deck hence why I asked about him.
But I suppose I'll leave him in there because his potential to create oodles of tokens is too good and find another deck to build that isn't too similar. Damn lol. Yeah, I've been toying around playing solitaire and it seems I always want to go the Purphoros/Impact Tremors (Goblin Bombardment/Goblin War Strike et al. I'd put in the same vein) route assuming I draw into them or hopefully find infinite token gen (like I do in Purphoros). In other words it's like Purphoros v2.0 "Now with More Aggro."
February 19, 2017 3:57 p.m.
add Krenko in Purphoros. Then pick a colour other than just-red :p explore the pie baby! :p
February 19, 2017 5:23 p.m.
Goblin Bombardment is good because you can switch targets to kill off multiple players. Choose your spells wisely
master274 says... #2
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/18-02-17-party-crashers/
Can refer to what I built as reference if you want
February 18, 2017 10:03 p.m.