@DreadKhan Hm, if that’s correct than I absolutely love this. These are the kinds of fringe, overly convoluted strategies I adore. I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the finer details but I’ll keep an eye on this one. Well done!

I had a reply explaining things, then I realized the issue, Political Trickery doesn't have giving your opponent a land worded as a cost to cast the spell, you just target one of yours and one of theirs on casting. It's not like Raze, if that helps. Anyways, I'll leave the rest up in case, but I'm sure you're aware how the stack works!

AFAIK, the plan is that you play Political Trickery and you announce the targets (both of them) upon casting, at which point it goes on the stack. Then, you retain priority and use the Wasteland you targeted to blow up a land you didn't target for theft, at which point Political Trickery will then resolve if they don't have any interaction, because it still has a legal target to affect, meaning you'll steal their land.

The way Ghost Town works with Vedalken Plotter is that I use Nephalia Smuggler to flicker my Plotter on my opponent's turn, at which point I put the Plotter's trigger on the stack, having targeted Ghost Town and another land. I then use Ghost Town's ability to return it to my hand, and the Plotter's trigger resolves because it still has a legal target to affect, netting me a land.

@DreadKhan I was looking at your cycled deck and wanted to post this here rather than on your deck’s page. I’m all for unique decks that have odd playstyles, but I have a question regarding something in your description.

You mention trading lands with your opponent and ‘giving them a Wasteland you immediately sac’—unless I’m missing a specific interaction with another card, I’m not certain that’s possible. As I understand it (and I could be wrong), if you sacrificed Wasteland to presumably destroy target nonbasic land, there is no time in between the sacrifice trigger and the resolution to do anything (this is also why a player can’t sacrifice a permanent to fulfill a cost and then try to ‘save’ that permanent by, say, blinking it).

And once you exchange control of Wasteland, you cannot use it as you normally would meaning you can’t choose to sacrifice it for the second ability either (it isn’t under your control).

That said, I’m not exactly sure how Ghost Town functions in relation to how you stated you wanted to use it, so I can’t comment on that.

Thanks Balaam__! Oh yeah lol. I should play that again, it's been a while.

Ohh thats how you do it. I knew I had learned it at some point but I couldn't remember it lol. Thanks!

RebelGenius I like your new Goblin deck Just Give ‘Em A Nice Little WHACK. With Lightning Bolt it reminds me of that line from the beginning of Bioshock, “Just zap ‘‘em and whack ‘em!”

Also, not sure if you care or not but if you want to pluralize a card name without just adding an “s” immediately after, just type the card name as usual inside double square brackets, but just after the card name put a | and then the plural version of the card name. Legion Loyalists becomes Legion Loyalists. It doesn’t have to be just the pluralization either, you can type anything after the | such as Rebel Genius. Again, this is only if something like this matters to you, it isn’t really important.

Hey, I got the accordions to work! Thanks for the help

Hey, also, could you maybe also teach me how to make those things you have in your deck descriptions that get bigger when you click on them? Trying to make my decks look a little more professional...

hey Balaam_, I just wanted to say that I love all of your decks! They're just awesome, and I love looking through them and playtesting them all. Thanks!

Thank you for the upvote

Cathartic Pyre looks pretty cool. I like that it has the quasi-cycling ability, and if I have a Guttersnipe down I can still dish out some damage if I decide to use that option. Thanks so much for checking it out!

@lespaul977 ah, I figured that’s what must have happened. Like I said, I’ve done the same thing (curse my sausage fingers). All good.

As for your latest,I’m not really familiar with the top tier goblin strategies or what makes a “good” goblin deck, so take this with a pinch of salt, but your Stomp. Burn. Destroy build looks pretty solid. Mana requirements are well taken care of, the curve is low and you have some nice finishers, and each creature contributes something to the overall strategy.

The only thing I can think of is maybe some draw power in the form of Cathartic Pyre. It’s an inexpensive card from the latest Innistrad set I believe, and it offers great versatility. Other than that it’s looking great.

Hey Balaam__, the block was an accident on my part. I realized I hadn’t heard from you in a while, and I must have accidentally hit that button. I use the mobile version of the site as well, and I find myself hitting the wrong buttons often. That was completely my bad.

Sure, I’ll take a look at it lespaul977. Also, I’m not sure you were even aware of this or not but you had blocked me. The last conversation we had just prior to it went very well I thought, so I’m guessing it was an accident? I know I myself have done the same thing with a couple other users (I use the mobile version of Tappedout, and the icons for add friend and block user are literally right next to each other. Clicking block by mistake is only a matter of time lol). But in case I did say something you found offensive, I want to apologize—I really didn’t mean to. I enjoyed your various builds and never meant to cause any offense.

Hi Balaam__! I posted a new deck a couple days ago, and I’d love to get your opinion on it if you have some free time. Thanks in advance!

Stomp. Burn. Destroy.