Strategic Betrayal

Sorcery

Target opponent exiles a creature they control and their graveyard.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (1)

CNG_Stream on 3.0 Goblins

1 month ago

Your deck seems a bit all over the place for a "goblin deck".

I like the Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate with the cheap goblins like Mudbutton Cursetosser and would reccomend getting a playset for the the deck. If you would include something that lets you sacrifice the goblin like Corrupted Conviction or Eaten Alive, you could combo the creature attacking sacrificing it to get removal on small creatures and bringing it back with Alesha's trigger end of turn. Seems like great value.

If you want to lean into the aggressive death trigger angle on your goblins then I would reccomend getting 4 copies of Boggart Mischief into the deck. You could easily trim the non-goblin spells to make room for this since they won't trigger the enchantment when they die anyways.

Cards I would reccomend cutting first from deck for not syergizing or look clunky would be:

Strongbox Raider, Quaketusk Boar, Battlesong Berserker, Dawn-Blessed Pennant, Goblin Boarders, Guttersnipe.

I would trim Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Perforating Artist if we really want to lean into the goblin motif as well, but I could see a reason to keep the artist as a filler card due ot its useful raid trigger.

Goblins that I would reccomend getting a playet of into if you have the rares would be Searslicer Goblin and Howlsquad Heavy with slightly more focus on the searslicer. Both of these will help you with generating boards that can get out of hand quickly and the Haste for Howlsquad is great with the Krenko, Mob Boss you already have.

If you need some non-rare goblins to fill in, then I would suggest trying Sourbread Auntie as a decent 4 drop as it basically is 3 bodies for 4 mana. Also more copies of Boggart Cursecrafter will do nicely as the creature punishes opponents for killing your board and has deathtouch making it great for defending with.

The next best thing I could reccomend would be fixing your mana with some Blood Crypt and/or Blazemire Verge.

If you take these changes to go more goblins like this, then I would reccomend changing your support spells to drop the pump spells and consider:

Strategic Betrayal - Non target removal is good vs the aura decks, but also great vs decks that use graveyards as it clears the graveyard disrupting reanimator strats or shutting of some lesson synergies. Only 2 copies is enough, but could go for more pending on your preference.

Eaten Alive - cheap cost removal that does require sacrifice, but does exile target to prevent death triggers and recurrsion of target. Also combos well with Cursetosser as mentioned earlier as it can help you perform a 2 for 2 instead of a 2 for 1 that this spell would normally inflict. Highly reccomend if you plan to keep Alesha in the deck plan.

Boggart Mischief - if you plan to go black/red with the focus on the goblins, then this at 4 is a must since it punishes board wipe players, and helps you go wide and can give you the win vs stompy decks that don't have trample. Also can be used for "Behold" as a goblin spell for Cursetosser.

I wish you the best of luck with the deck.