I played Goblin Sligh for my last 7 tourneys in Carta and doing very well with it (loosing 3 times in semi-final and one time in the final). This month, I wanted to try another deck.
Here is the deck I was playing:
FCG4 Goblin Lackey
4 Goblin Warchief
4 Goblin Ringleader
4 Goblin Recruiter
4 Goblin Piledriver
3 Goblin Matron
3 Skirk Prospector
2 Siege-Gang Commander
2 Gempalm Incinerator
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
1 Goblin Thinkerer
4 Food Chain
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Chrome Mox
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus petal
4 Wooded Foothill
4 Taiga
5 Mountains
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
SB: 4 Blood Moon
SB: 3 Artefact Mutation
SB: 1 Naturalize
SB: 4 Tormod’s Crypt
SB: 2 Gempalm Incinerator
SB: 1 Goblin Welder
Round 1: Fred Mercier playing control slaver (with Intruder Alarm+Welder combo)
Game 1 (He plays first)
1st turn:
He plays a Tomb
I play a Land + Prospector
2nd turn:
He plays a Mox + Mindless Automaton
I play a Recruiter (with Taiga and Food chain in my hand)
3rd turn:
He play thirst, Island + Crypt + timetwister (No more golbins in the top, no more food chain in my hand!
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I draw nothing but a lot of lands, 2 Ringleader and a Gempalm in his twister. I play waste, waste his Tomb and cycle my Gempalm (I draw a Food Chain)
4th turn:
He plays a Worker.
I draw a Taiga, Cast Food Chain and Combo out.
Life total:
Me: 20
Him: 20 18 16 14 0
Game 2:
1st turn:
He cast a Welder
I play a Lackey
2nd turn:
He drop a land
I drop a waste, waste one of his land, cast a Lotus Petal + Goblin Thinkerer
3rd turn:
He drop a land
I drop another waste and waste one of his land again. I attack with Lackey and Thinkerer, he block the lackey with his welder.
4th turn:
He does nothing.
I drop a land, cast Piledriver and attack with Thinkerer.
5th turn:
He does nothing.
I cast Mana Crypt + Marton (Search a Pildriver) + Pildriver and I attack with Pildriver and Thinkerer.
6th turn:
He does nothing.
I attack with all my goblins for the win.
Life total:
Me: 20 19 16
Him: 20 19 18 17 13 0
Games: 2-0
Matchs: 1-0
Round 2: Someone playing Suicide (with splash Bleu for Ancestral Recall + Walk)
Game 1: (he starts)
1st turn:
He plays Cabal Therapy. He then says: Well… You’re playing with bleu sleeves, I think you play bleu… I’ll say Force of Will. I found that very funny!!
I play a land + Prospector
2nd turn:
He plays another Therapy, naming Sharpshooter (that I had since the beginning of the game)
I play a Lackey.
3r turn:
He drops a land
I drop a Ringleader with Lackey + Cast Pildriver.
4th turn:
He casts a Nantuko Shade.
I cast a Warchief + Pildriver and attack with all. He blocks a Driver with his Shade.
5th turn:
He cast another Shade.
I cast a SGC an attack for the win.
Life total:
Me: 20 19
Him: 20 19 17 16 5 0
Game 2:1st turn:
He duress me, I discard a Food Chain
I play a land
2nd turn:
He cast a Mox + Hypnotic Specter
I play a Recruiter. I think about how to stack my goblins. I had 2 Mountains into play and 2 others in my hand + 1 Warchief in my hand, so I did not fear Wasteland and if he make me discard one Mountain with the Specter, I would have 3 to cast a Warchief next turn and a ringleader in 2 turns. So I stack something like: Warchief, Ringleader, 3 * Pildriver, Prospector, Ringleader, etc.
3rd turn:
He cast a Sinkhole on one of my mountain AND makes me discard a mountain with his Specter. That was bad for me. He beats me with his Specter, I try to beat him with my goblins, but He won because he tutors for a Time Walk (I would have killed him the next turn…)
Life total:
Me: 20 19 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0
Him: 20 19 18 17 16 12 9 6 4
Game 3:1st turn:
I only drop a land.
He Duress me (I had only lands and goblins in my hand)
2nd turn:
I Cast a Piledriver.
He plays a demonic tutor.
3rd turn:
I cast a Warchief.
He plays a Waste, Waste one of my Taiga, casts Dark Ritual + Masticore (with 2 lands into play and 2-3 cards in hand.
4th turn:
I did nothing, since I had only 1 toughness goblin.
He discard a Walk for his Masticore. He plays a Strip Mine and Strip one of my Mountain. (he had now only one card in his hand)
5h turn:
I drop a Taiga and Cast Food Chain.
He discards a Vampiric tutor for his Masticore. He attacks with it.
6th turn:
I cast a Warchief and attack with all.
He discard his card, and does nothing.
7th turn:
I cast a lackey. He ping the Lackey, but in response, I cycle a Gempalm to deal 4 damages to his Masticore (since he had only 2 lands in play, he couldn’t regenerate it.) I attack for the win.
Life total:
Me: 20 19 18 12
Him: 20 15 6 2 0
Games: 4-1
Matchs: 2-0
3rd round: Justin playing GAT
Game 1: (he plays first)
1s turn:
He duress me, I discard a Food Chain.
I play a broken first turn: Land + Petal + Mox Ruby + Lackey + Recruiter. Since I had a Ringleader in my hand, I stack on the top of my library: 3x Lackey + 2xRingleader + Warchief + Pildriver, etc.
2nd turn:
He drops a 2nd land.
I drop a 2nd land and attack with my 2 goblins. I drop Ringleader with Lackey, and cast 2 other Lackey (one gets drain)
3rd turn:
He casts a cunning wish (searching for Wail of the Nim)
I attack with all, drop 2 Ringleader with my Lackeys, cast Warchief + Pildriver
4th turn:
He casts Brainstorm, and scoop.
Life Total:
Me: 20
Him: 20 18 13 0
Game 2: 1st turn:
He drops a land.
I drop a land. He cast Mystical tutor (searching a Ancestral Recall)
2nd turn:
He cast Recall + Lotus + brainstorm + time Walk.
He cast a Dryad.
I drop a 2nd land.
3rd turn:
He casts Brainstorm + AK and attack for 3.
I drop my 3rd land and cast Lotus + Blood Moon + Food Chain.
4th turn:
He attacks me.
I combo out for the win.
Life Total:
Me: 20 19 16 13
Him: 20 0
Games: 6-1
Matchs: 3-0
4th round: Someone playing Worst than Fish
Game 1:(he plays first)
1st turn:
He drops a Conclave.
I cast a Lackey.
2nd turn:
He casts a Spiketail Hatchling.
I drop a Waste and waste his Conclave, attack with my lackey, he blocks. I cast another Lackey.
3rd turn:
He does nothing.
I drop a Waste and waste his only land (that gets stifle). I drop a Chrome Mox, attack with lackey and drop a Recruiter. I don’t know why, but he concedes before I stack my goblins…
Life total:
Me: 20
Him: 20 19
Game 2: 1st turn:
He cast Mox + River Boa.
I Cast Mox + Recruiter (that gets FOW)
2nd turn:
He drops a land and attack.
I cast Crypt + Goblin Sharpshooter (that gets counter by bleu elemental blast) + Lackey.
3rd turn:
He drops a waste and wastes my Taiga.
I drop a waste and waste his Tropical Island. I cycle my Gempalm, dealing 1 damage to his boa. He regenerates it, and I attack with my Lackey. I drop a SGC with it and he concedes.
Life Total:
Me: 20 19 17 14
Him: 20 19
Games: 8-1
Matchs: 4-0
Round 5: Jean-Philippe Keable playing U-R Landstill
We ID
Games: 8-1
Matchs: 4-0-1
Round 6: Mathieu Bédard playing Goblin Sligh
We ID
Games: 8-1
Matchs: 4-0-2
I finished the first 6 round in the 2nd place.
Quarterfinal: Sebastien St-Louis playing Keeper
Game 1: (I play first!)
1st turn:
I cast a Lackey.
He cast Mox + Isochron Specter (Imprint an Ancestral Recall on it
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2n turn:
I drop a Warchief with my Lackey.
He drop Academy, cast Recall + Time Walk
He cast Recall + Mox + land + mind Twist for 4
(I had 4 cards in hand…)
3rd turn:
I top deck a recruiter. I attack, and drop the recruiter with my Lackey.
He cast Recall + 2xImpulse + Mox + Sword my Lackey.
4th turn:
I cast another lackey. He sword my Warchief. He cast Mystical tutor for a Decree of justice and I scoop.
Life total:
Me: 20 19 18 19 21
Him: 20 19 16 15 12 11
Game 2: 1st turn:
I cast a Mox + Recruiter (that gets FOW)
He drop a land
2nd turn:
I cast a Food Chain.
He drop a 2nd land
3rd turn:
I cast a Piledriver (that gets drain)
He cast an Isochron Specter (imprint an Impulse) + cast impulse
4th turn:
I cast a Goblin Thinkerer
He cast a Fire on my Thinkerer.
5th turn:
I cast an Incinerator
He cast an Impulse
6th turn:
I cast a Warchief (that get FOW). He cast a Mystical tutor (searching for Fire/Ice)
He cast an Impulse.
7th turn:
I cast a Ringleader. I remove my Incinerator with the Food Chain to cast Lackey and Sharpshooter.
He cast Mox + Impulse + Time Walk
He Cast Isochron Specter (imprint Fire/Ice) and Fire my lackey + Sharpshooter
8th turn:
I attack, and he make 2 1/1 with decree of justice. I then cast a Recruiter.
He cast an Impulse.
9th turn:
I combo out for the win.
Life total:
Me: 20 19
Him: 20 19 17 16 15 14 11 10 5 4 1 0
Game 3: 1st turn:
He casts Lotus + Humility! I ask the judge if the come-into-play of creature will still trigger, but unfortunately they won’t. I thought that my tournament was over.
I play a land.
2nd turn:
He does nothing, he doesn’t play a land.
I play a wasteland and waste his lone land.
He drew no land before turn 5! And all he did with that land was Swording a goblin. I beats him with a lot of goblins. He eventually drew another land and Fire two goblins, but that was too late…
Life total:
Me: 20 21
Him: 20 19 18 16 15 14 12 9 5 2 1 0
Semifinal: Justin playing GAT
Game 1 (I go first)
1st turn:
I drop a land.
He Cast a Mox.
2nd turn:
I cast Crypt + Ringleader. He cast AK in response, but Ringleader resolve.
He cast a Dryad.
3rd turn:
I cast a Food Chain and combo out for the win.
Life total:
Me: 20
Him: 20 18 17 0
Game 2: 1st turn:
He duress me, I discard Black Lotus.
I drop a waste, waste his land and cast Mox Ruby + Lackey
2nd turn:
He drop a land
I drop a SGC with Lackey.
3rd turn:
He cast Lotus + Pernicious Deed and Deed for 2.
I do nothing
4th turn:
He does nothing
I play recruiter. I stack my goblin really bad, I should have lost this game. I stack 3x Lackey + Ringleader + Warchief + Prospector + etc. I had only 2 land into play, I thought that with 3 lackeys, one will be able to drop the ringleader, I will cast prospector and be in good shape.
5th turn:
He cast a Dryad.
I do nothing.
6th turn:
He cast a Dryad.
I cast 2x Lackey.
7th turn:
He does nothing.
I attack with all : He has only one card in hand, and I’m pretty sure that it isn’t a bleu card drawer. So I trade my 2 lackey with his 2 dryad.
8th turn:
He casts Will + Lotus + 2xDryad. From now, I’m in big trouble, since my 3rd Lackey will never be able to drop my ringleader or a Warchief. From there, the game stall a little bit. I draw only Warchiefs and Ringleader, he draws only duress and little spells to pump his dryads. I had a Lackey and a Pildriver into play and he has 2 dryads with 8 counters on them. He eventually casts a 3rd one and he attack with one dryad. I top decked the only card that could have saved me: Gempalm Incinerator. He was at 1 life, I cycle my gempalm to deal 2 damage to his new dryad and attack with my lackey and my Pildriver for the win!
Life total:
Me: 20 11 2
Him: 20 19 17 15 13 12 9 6 5 3 1 0
Final: Jean-Philippe Keable playing landstill
We split the final!
Overall:
Games: 12-2
Matchs: 6-0-3
As always, it was a lot of fun to play at that tournament. That was the first time that I played that deck in a tournament. I was really happy with this deck, except for the Prospectors: 3 is really too much, I almost always sideboard 2 of them out. I think that 1 is enough. I did one really bad stack with my Recruiter against GAT and maybe a risky one against Suicide without seeing that was a risky one (after all, a Hymn to Tourach would have make me scoop). I did those two errors because I wasn’t very familiar with FCG. I learn a lot playing this deck all the day and I will learn to play it in the next month: I will be able do better stack with my Recruiter and doing this a lot faster! (So yes, you may expect me to play FCG next month
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By the way, I want to congrats the little kid that played without sleeves: He beats a powered Academy Deck with his Elf deck that is, well, a beginner’s deck, not even close to have any chance in type one. It remembered me that we all started with a deck like that and seeing it winning against Academy was funny.
Martin Bonneville
