NEVER LOSE TO MUXUS AGAIN! How to Fight Turbo Muxus Goblins with Eli Goings (Legacy MTG)

[@GoblinLackey1]

This was a bunch of fun, thanks for having me on, Phil!

[@orb0]

I had a blast watching you play with your deck, so I was wondering, do you mind sharing your deck list?

[@nathanr5023]

@Goblinlackey1 did you record this from your side?

[@GoblinLackey1]

@@nathanr5023 I did not, sorry!

[@NastierNate]

I was like “who is this Eli guy?” until he said he was goblinlackey1, after which point I treated every word he said as goblin gospel.

[@sheepy403]

... gobspel

[@Stellar_Lake_sys]

really liked this one. the occasional curated match videos you do are always great to see, and it's interesting gameplay even when it's not the gameplay you were expecting

[@mrsnufflegums]

I am loving this, you should do something like this more often, maybe the last Monday of each month you highlight a deck by speaking with an expert in the archetype, and play some rounds and show the strengths and weaknesses of the deck and what sideboarding heuristics and general strategy looks like when you're playing against it (each deck is different so specific card selection is going to be relative)

[@jasperr5309]

this is a great idea!

[@flusterfluff]

Loving this ,and the commentary from both sides over in the chat box was delightful."Well that answers the question of do I know what you're doing" particularly got to me

[@suzettedarrow8739]

o wow. the old-border brown Pashalik Mons @ 23:26 looks DOPE

[@zaphodbeebs2486]

This is the kinda exciting content I'm here for. Getting an expert to pilot the opponents deck. Good stuff keep getting better at your craft.

[@CPrs3394]

Love this type of video. So many people out there get frustrated by a particular deck and want to beat it, but it’s hard to demonstrate “every deck has bad matchups” in a paragraph on reddit

[@gothblin]

I really liked this. I had just one small suggestion, which is that you regroup with your opponent after each match, rather than at the end (I know you lost the audio, so in practice this didn't actually happen, but still). I think this would lead to a more immediate reaction, as well as making sure the feedback is focused on that match in particular, rather than potentially earlier matches getting overshadowed by later ones. Anyway, more please! Eli's Flat Tax Rate Goblin design is ideologically terrible (not to mention unprintably oppressive), but really fucking funny.

[@carrikmcnerlin1770]

Love the return to form! It's bringing back memories of the old twitch stream when you'd have someone like Cyrus Corman-Gill backseat you playing storm or the BoshNRoll grudge matches

[@RumpledNutskin]

I love this format of video! More like this in the future please ❤

[@mememaster5748]

This is incredibly cool, love the idea and the execution

[@swampybwoy]

As a fan of Eli’s channel and yours it’s great to see you both come together

[@NathanielJordan23]

Love this approach! Feels super useful for understanding the match-up from both sides.

[@Mequalspi]

R1G2 it seems a lot better to not Ballista their Battle Cry Goblin, but instead play Paradox Engine, then Ballista on 0 to untap and dump your hand. You end up in the same position you were in one turn later, except that you get the Bridge/Paradox Engine down 1 turn earlier, they are up a Battle Cry Goblin, but you have a Karn in play (along with functionally infinite mana).

[@askedyhr]

Thought the same

[@jeromelim2928]

Loved the video Phil ❤ looking forward to more videos like this

[@uruk_bye1232]

This was a really good video idea, and the Eli banter is always funny.

[@__Tana__]

Great different way to showcase the donor’s vision*^.^*

[@__Tana__]

I like the format

[@__Tana__]

I would love to see more guest-featured deck-focused grudge matches in the future

[@maxmustermann1111]

i think the video also goes to show how incredibly important skill and reps are. Obviously eli is an absolute expert in goblins and knows perfectly how to sideboard and what to mulligan for. While phil is a seasoned player but scrolled through multiple decks he doesnt have too many reps with in the current metagame. And that can quickly be enough to turn a favorable matchup around. Like the last game, chalice shutting down 7 cards in hand. Maybe knowing that post sideboard there are chalices and moons, you just have to board in force of negation and mulligan to protect from at least 1 lock piece. And its nice to see, that despite a possible "bad matchup" in a cardgame with a lot of randomness involved, the player still matters a lot.

[@ThrabenUniversity]

Absolutely agreed!

[@luidgigiordano9480]

It was super cool. I was confused with Karn +1 on Chrome Mox though. It's static was locking the mana anyway, could have gone for Chalice directly, no?

[@frasermclean9292]

In round 1 game 2 I don't think Eli was dead because Walking Ballista was in the graveyard. You also can't attack because Ensnaring Bridge was in play.

[@joeaquilino19]

Wow I almost imagined exactly what a Goblin expert would look like 😮

[@42sporks5]

I'm a simple man. I see eli and goblins i like.

[@gregthewalnut603]

you definitely win m1g1 if you keep the ring with 2 counters on it, right? it sees ~8 more cards

[@CharlotteMimic]

Awesome video!!

[@jaggededge11]

It's weird that the Mud deck doesn't have access to something like Tormod's Crypt or Relic of Progenitus so that it can loop Walking Ballista (In addition to being graveyard hate). Because of that, you actually didn't have any real way to kill off your opponent in Match 1 Game 2 (Both your Dismembers were gone, so you couldn't even animate bridge with Karn, kill it off with Dismember and attack with lethal constructs).

[@LucksackGames]

Threw me so off when Round 2 started.

[@42sporks5]

Damage cant be prevented goblin is on my wish list

[@informationaether6965]

How would you actually win in round 1 game 2? The deck only has one walking balista, which you used as a removal spell.

[@emilybaker9769]

It's not pretty, but he could find Karn, pull a Hope of Ghirapur out of the sb, and attack in with flying then play out his hand for Bridge post-combat. As long as he finds Karn with more than 20 cards left in his deck. Most builds run a Tormod's Crypt or some other piece of gy hate, which you could grab, exile the ballista, then Karn the ballista back to hand, but that doesn't seem to be an option in this particular decklist.

[@informationaether6965]

@emilybaker9769 yeah but the opponent wins if he ever finds trashmaster, so he probably shouldn't have conceded.

[@GoblinLackey1]

@@informationaether6965 Phil can just immediately get Lattice and hardlock me from casting spells ever again. It would have been a lot of sitting around to wait to die if I didn't scoop there.

[@calanata2227]

​@@informationaether6965 karn lattice locks first, opp is on 0 outs

[@jeremyphillips3087]

Whats up with that akira poster?

[@GoblinLackey1]

Akira is a great movie, simple as that!

[@jeremyphillips3087]

@@GoblinLackey1 yeah, but like the poster is really small and the poles are really long? Whats up with that?

[@kevink.8809]

This is a really neat idea for a video

[@Zauzzie]

You werent locked in the non cantrip deck, Wish ya would have called a mulligan and loaded up a different version with cantrips lol The rest of the matches where awesome though

[@ZaphodBeeblebrox-sy8ey]

Now do one for red painter.

[@tectasy9814]

Only way to slow goblins is to get them stuck in the MUD.

[@Playingwithproxies]

Game one you could have dug so much deeper if you had taken the one ring with counters instead of the one without

[@KuyashiiPlays]

My goblins 😢

[@NormalTheBand]

That first artifact deck just seems so much worse than Tonyscapone's Coveted Jewel decks

[@Korwinga]

In general, it probably is worse, but against goblins in particular, it might be better. Deploying a Jewel on any turn that you don't win is a massive liability against a deck that is full of hasty creatures.

[@giorgiamariani7306]

@@Korwingathat deck is still a 4 rings deck, just faster

[@bath0202]

Wow, if I was the person who donated to this video, I would be furious. "Build a deck to beat muxus." "No, I'm going to do something better. That deck is overrated anyway." Loses in every match to Muxus in record time.