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Conspicuous Snoop
Creature — Goblin Rogue
Play with the top card revealed.
You may cast Goblin spells from the top of your library.
As long as the top card of your library is a Goblin card, this has all activated abilities of that card.
capwner on One-card wins
1 month ago
So here's an idea you may be familiar with...a one-card win: That is, a card that wins the game or initiates a winning line by itself without needing any other pieces. Just cast that one card and boom, you're in a position to win. This seems very OP because a 1 card combo is of course easier to assemble than 2-or-more card combos, and besides being easy to assemble I think it improves your resilience because it's easy to recur or topdeck a single card, and initial card investment is lower so you have more potential space in hand for interaction or a backup plan. The downside would be a lot of these either cost a lot of mana or require a lot of build around, or both. So some obvious examples of this would be cards like Tooth and Nail that tutor up multiple parts of a 2-part combo. Shared Summons is another card that, given enough mana, can win by itself say by assembling Heliod, Sun-Crowned + Walking Ballista. These double tutor cards are especially sweet because they can also find protection if you already have part of the combo or other tutors. I think Hoarding Broodlord is similar because it tutors for Saw in Half to find more combo pieces, so this wins by itself too. By extension, in the decks that have these, regular Demonic Tutor or Solve the Equation become a 1-card wins as well! Next there are some weirder ones...there's straight up Enter the Infinite which if resolved should certainly give you the ability to win on the spot with a million counterspell backups. On the opposite end of the curve, Doomsday initiates a combo line by itself but is slower; you either need to pass the turn or have a means of drawing a card to continue comboing. Similarly, Selective Memory in an all-spells deck can exile your whole deck besides Thoracle, then draw her and win next turn. Of course in the all-spells camp there's also Balustrade Spy, Undercity Informer and Goblin Charbelcher which can win on the spot, these are probably the best and actually competitively played archetypes, and Hermit Druid combos similarly. Hmm.... what else, I guess there are tons of 1-card combos with commanders, like Etali + Food Chain, Niv Mizzet + Curiosity, and so on. Those are pretty close to 1-card wins but I would say a different genre of combo than the ones I am discussing. Another card I think fits is Timesifter, with the right build this card can very likely result in a win by itself, though it is totally non-deterministic! I think as a 5 drop artifact, compared with the mana demands of some of the other cards mentioned, this is a very competitive option for a potentially game-ending effect on a single card. I love Timesifter lol. What else? Other tutors like Intuition and Gifts Ungiven can assemble breach combo by themselves in Jeskai decks with Sevinne's Reclamation. Ad Nauseam and other mass-draw effects scoop up huge portions of the deck and win from there. Anything that can tutor multiple times like Increasing Ambition or Razaketh, the Foulblooded can win by itself. Goblin Recruiter I'm pretty sure sets up Conspicuous Snoop combo by itself, maybe that's a win next turn one. Approach of the Second Sun but that's REALLY slow by itself. This far down the line I'm tempted to even say Stoneforge Mystic and/or Stonehewer Giant because you can play a line where you get Sword of Hearth and Home to flicker her, get Kaldra Compleat then get Worldslayer and that's baaasically a win 2 turns later from just a Stoneforge. On that topic, MLD spells in general come pretty close to being 1-card wins IMO by relying more on overall deck construction to out-recover opponents, so similar to a Timesifter resolving a Jokulhaups should usually win it for the MLD player if they built their deck right, and if nobody has Tef Pro <- another 1 card win here lol.
I feel like I've blabbed enough, I'd like to know which cards I've missed and what your favorite 1-card wins are? Or even cool Commander + 1 wins if you know of some lesser-known ones. Hey I guess Magda, Brazen Outlaw and Godo, Bandit Wardlord both win by themselves too, right? But kind of slowly, Godo needs haste and Magda needs dwarves/treasures. Also for commanders, I think both Captain Sisay and Sisay, Weatherlight Captain can assemble wins by themselves, slowly. Also Yisan, Wanderer Bard.
Anyways thanks for reading if you did, hopefully you got something useful out of this wincon rant. One-card wins are a big principle I try to use in my deckbuilding especially at higher powers and I think trying to enable the wackier ones provides some fun deckbuilding challenge and is really rewarding when you can pull it off.
Liquidbeaver on
Ib Halfheart, Goblin Sac-tician [PRIMER]
9 months ago
All fetches out for three more snow-covered basics and a Horizon of Progress!
In the past I have had more reasons for needing top deck manipulation, but now it's really just Conspicuous Snoop.
There are a bunch of cards I would run if EDH was added to MTGArena (Goblin Assassin for one!) but for playing in-person I really want to shuffle as little as possible, so fetches are out!
vic on Can a Conspicuous Snoop plus …
1 year ago
I control a Conspicuous Snoop and have a Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker on top of my library. Can my Snoop make infinite token copies of itself (until the end step)?
TimelessLove on
Krenko's Goblin Meat Market
1 year ago
Additionally, I would Mainboard Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and/or Fable of the Mirror-Breaker Flip the latter of which being a valid Kiki-Jiki duplicate target. It's another option to go infinite, or simply increase the good parts of a boardstate.
Personally, I'd sideboard the Stax elements like Orb of Dreams and Winter Orb, even if there's some interaction with Throne of the God-Pharaoh. I might be undervaluing the card draw aspect, but Gempalm Incinerator only targeting creatures greatly devalues it for me.
Goblin Chirurgeon, I consider it essential to protecting valuable goblins on board since there's no way to bring them back from the graveyard. Your love for fancy lands might also have you consider Safe Haven. Similarly, Castle Embereth, Spinerock Knoll, and Den of the Bugbear each fits.
Goblin Goliath, offers much the same effect as Siege-Gang Commander while also giving a damage-doubling effect on tap.
While not being a sac outlet Battle Squadron offers an effect similar to Clickslither and Voracious Dragon while still being a Goblin, and not taking goblins off the board.
Goblin Warchief needs help with Haste enabling, whether pre-infinite or not, I think another option to win on board same turn is needed. Goblin Bushwhacker
, Goblin Chieftain, and Roar of Resistance offer this, while Ardoz, Cobbler of War can additionally capitalize on it.
Gauntlet of Might, Dolmen Gate, and Herald's Horn are good preference options. I keep wanting to add Basilisk Collar because of Goblin Sharpshooter, but it'd be a wasted slot too often.
Conspicuous Snoop is a fun card, which I now realize goes infinite with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker on top of the library.
wallisface on
Gerblins!
2 years ago
If you’re looking to update this, you should probably adapt to the current meta list. Specifically, goblins want to be an aggressive deck but also packing the instant-win combo of Conspicuous Snoop + Boggart Harbinger (to put Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker on-top to make infinite goblins, and then use the last copy trigger to target Harbinger and put Sling-Gang Lieutenant on-top and ping for lethal).
legendofa on Does Conspicuous snoop, kiki-jiki, and …
2 years ago
I assume the setup has Conspicuous Snoop and Boggart Shenanigans in play, and Kiki-Jiki on top of your deck. The sacrifice effect is part of Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker's activated ability, so as the end step starts, each token created by a Snoop using Kiki-Jiki's ability will be sacrificed, triggering Shenanigans that many times.
ImpatientTurtle on Does Conspicuous snoop, kiki-jiki, and …
2 years ago
After you create infinite snoops, do the tokens sacrifice themselves as per the rest of kiki-jiki's borrowed effect thus triggering shenanigans?
SteelSentry on
Krenko, Mob Boss
3 years ago
You have Goblin Recruiter and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, so Conspicuous Snoop is an easy include for the infinite Snoop combo.
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