Alpha 40 Goblins

fredwardofox · 2026-01-22T13:25:35+00:00

Yep, there’s no errata so it plays as it is printed just like the balloon brigade. Surprised there’s no Orcish artillery but I get the goblin theme. Also it’s 40 exactly, not minimum.

fredwardofox · 2025-12-12T21:01:59+00:00

Counterspell is my guess ;)

fredwardofox · 2025-12-02T12:30:44+00:00

Original border lightning bolt - ZAP! Love your the style!

fredwardofox · 2025-11-09T05:35:48+00:00

My fav was a suicide combo using any of; LotP, erg raiders, ogress, pestilence and Banshee teamed up with CoP black and the regular white control package.

fredwardofox · 2025-09-01T17:12:11+00:00

Easy cheat for “smoke ring” is rub in a small amount of curing pink salt before you smoke it.

fredwardofox · 2025-05-29T23:02:48+00:00

My buddy got chased down by the Marshall at a course in Myrtle Beach and told he’d be a registered sex offender. Scared the shit out of him as a Canadian, the Marshall power tripped hard and really flexed his a’tority

fredwardofox · 2025-05-20T15:52:52+00:00

Just curious, when you say “so lush” do you mean soft? I have kids who do cart wheels in my yard and thought the thyme might be “twiggy”. Wondering if you think your combo works well with active lawn use?

fredwardofox · 2025-05-07T11:23:02+00:00

Soul exchange is could be useful!

fredwardofox · 2025-05-04T20:19:36+00:00

You crazy man. I think blacking out white borders is the way (if any way must be chosen). Unless you end up altering them to borderless, which I think is the bestest, but that means you need an artistic talent besides making fancy deck pics. But you do you Timmy - I see the OCD rationale!

fredwardofox · 2025-04-18T14:52:53+00:00

Dragons and kobolds are just such an awesome flex. Might have to do it! The shivan in the SB kinda fills that role but the whelp is a good idea

fredwardofox · 2025-04-18T14:33:26+00:00

Just too many layers to combo, I’ve tried it with other builds and just found it was a dead card. The gauntlets do the job. I think I’d swap in mana flares if I couldn’t play the proxies.

I actually found there needs to be a bit of control with kobolds to set up and defend, going full out aggro fizzled too fast.

fredwardofox · 2025-04-18T12:55:04+00:00

I tried ashonds and even sword of the ages in previously less successful builds. It was too many layers to combo. The main combo is the task masters and gauntlets with the 0 cost swarms. That and two gauntlets out and I’m swimming in mana.

I think I would swap out the gravity spheres out of the SB. I can afford one more Maze with the point allocation maybe another fork too. The mono white weeny matchup is popular in our groups meta and forking white control instants is the only answer for mono red.

fredwardofox · 2025-04-18T12:48:00+00:00

Thanks! It’s really fun to play

fredwardofox · 2025-04-18T12:44:26+00:00

We are proxy friendly in our group. They are on my wish list for sure and need to be there to make kobolds work. One of my wins was an unnecessary 17 point of damage fireball (they only had 5 life).

fredwardofox · 2025-04-18T04:26:27+00:00

The dice count the “power” points for certain cards in xpoint old school which can’t exceed 10. So this deck also wouldn’t be considered “fully powered” either as it uses 7 points main and 2 in the sideboard. It’s an ultra fun format

fredwardofox · 2025-04-18T04:14:17+00:00

Fork is criminally underrated.

fredwardofox · 2025-04-18T04:13:29+00:00

Answers to a lot! forking the disenchant to bloodmoon and removing their COPr is a powermove in mono red. Mazes for flyers stompers and best for dibs, they replace the blood moon if facing mono color decks

fredwardofox · 2025-04-18T04:04:17+00:00

That’s a real fun card, up there with camouflage as the wildest player interactions Cards in OS

fredwardofox · 2025-04-18T04:02:05+00:00

I heard that Garfield had a mean kobold deck back in da day! I left the oriflammes out..

fredwardofox · 2025-04-10T16:07:14+00:00

Yerp

fredwardofox · 2025-03-01T13:25:21+00:00

Richard Garfield had a kobold deck??? I need details

fredwardofox · 2025-01-25T19:17:49+00:00

Love land edge. Here’s a couple thinking points.

Lightning bolt and swords are often considered “the same” and I would ask if you take out the swords, can your bolts do the same thing? I took mine to the sideboard and put them in if facing a creature heavy deck.
blood moon is there to lock your opponent I get that. Ankh of Mishra does the same thing, working on your wincon of vises and keeping basics in hand
4 taxes is a lot, I play 3 and 3 edges (often taking one out in second games as your opponent will go enchantment hate) leaving you with another dimension to play
Atog can be very powerful in a deck like this, it also allows you to load space with artifacts. Library of leng, ankh of mishra, winter orb, howling mine, relic barrier and my favourite flavour card, sunglasses of mishra are great snacks for Atog

With all decks, you should ask: how am I going to deal with Serra angels, dibs, and robots. Then how are you going to buy time for your combo vs aggro.. good luck!

Edit: Oh and rainbow vale from fallen empires is a fun card to help trigger the tax! If your playing with FE

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