If we are considering a strategy in which lands are used as control components/win conditions, why not use exploration as acceleration. The ability to play an additional land for a G provides early acceleration is very powerful and it makes a Life from the Loam more explosive when the deck is establishing its lock.

I only bring this up because I was considering the following play while brainstorming on this deck:
Turn 1: Green Source, Exploration/Fastbond, wasteland, activate waste
Turn 2: Green Source, Living Wish (Strip mine), Stripmine, activate strip
Turn 3: Life from the Loam (targetting Strip, Waste, and fetchland), play and activate any of the two.

At that point, The dredge deck is sitting with two/three mana sources (which I belive should allow it to cast most of its other lock components), while the opponent is down two non-basics, plus one other land (two if the dredge player is on the draw)

I do not know if this is a valid point, but I just wanted to put it out there.

The reason I run ESG over something like say... chrome mox was horrible during the last tournament, it generated mana, but always at the cost of a good card (lackey, warchief, piledriver, ect.) ESG lasts only for one shot, but it does not generate the card disadvantage of chrome mox (don't get me wrong, ESG has inherent CA costs).

The maindeck AM's are crazy, but If I ran tombs, I would conside rack and ruin in the sideboard. rack and ruin maindeck is iffy only because it can be dead if there is only one legal target (say your opponent's plat in an oath matchup).

Mike

I played FCG goblins (and was just as happy to see Johnson almost top sixteen), as well as finishing 40th in the tournament with a 5-3 record. Which is not bad considering considering it was my second type one tournament ever (with the previous one being the waterbury last year with a record of 4-2-2).

Heres the Chain that I built

Mana 25:
5 mountains
4 Tiaga
4 fetch
5 wastes and a strip
sol ring
mana crypt
ESG
Mox R
Mox E
Black Lotus
Lotus Petal

Creatures: 28
4 Ringleaders
4 Recruiters
4 Lackeys
4 Piledrivers
4 Incinerators
3 Warchief
1 Prospector
1 Sharpshooter
1 Matron

Spells: 7
4 Food Chain
3 Artifact Mutation

SB:
4 Reb
3 Null Rod
3 Ground Seal
3 Emerald Charm
2 Tsabo's Webs (thought I would encounter fish and landstill... very wrong replace with root maze to hose combo)

Anyway to answer previous questions 1.) Prospector good but not good enough to cut other good cards (incinerator and mutation). 2.) Tinder wall was not even a consideration, for the reason that if it is not a goblin or artifact mana, it better be broken.  3.) 2 sharpshooters would not be the answer against fish, as it has to wait one turn to go online, where is it hightly vunerable to all that lovely burn, even with a chief in play, a good fish player will lavamance or fire the warchief in response to you playing the spell. Sharpshooter is used for the alternate kill if the opponent has enough blocker to prevent lethal damage from piledrivers when comboing out. It is also a nail in the coffin of welder, but everyone and their mom had triskelions against me, cept combo, they just cast lots of spells and win. If combo was more than 50 percent of the meta, sharpshooter would go out as well as the mutations for null rods, and maybe root maze.

Anyways those are my two cents (and my first post)

Later,
Mike

P.S. @ Nantuko Rice: I think I saw you at the tournament, did you hang out with Bean, Mike C., Mark, and Johnson at the tournament?