The Real Reason Why the Goblin is Red!

[@DiceTry]

So what's your favorite Goblin Card?

[@RedClaw87]

My favorite Goblin card or better said Goblin in general is Slobad. Despite Glissa being the protagonist of Mirrodin, it's Slobad I got attached to the most. He's the reason, that I often consider being a Goblin as my first choice when thinking about a new D&D character. I love Slobad. He is an outsider. He is an underdog. And he might be the most compassionate character you might find in mtg lore.

[@The_Loreseeker]

The OG Krenko is a pretty badass card, not just mechanically, but from a lore perspective - here is a 'lowly' goblin who's not only managed to gain quite the notable following in fucking _Ravnica_ of all places, but he's also skilled enough to break into a Boros stronghold and free Feather, an angel under the _heaviest_ restrictions.

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

The pirate goblins from Ixalan. Not a card but also the token made by the Siege gang Commander (Dominaria art by Kev Walker) is hands down my favorite.

[@КонстантинГребенков]

Goblin Electromancer. Because both of his flavor texts - old and new, are hilarious and yet perfectly fits the core ideals of the Izzet. Also, it's a cool common and I'm sad that there's no place for him in constructed anymore.

[@Whitby_Abbeys_Ghost]

Anything that throws bombs.

[@thomaspoteete4119]

"Don't goblins dismember and disregard others of their kind all the time?" I don't even think it's that. I see goblin groups like a bunch of dumbass friends who get crazy ideas and they all jump at the opportunity to be a part of it. Why? Because it would be SO FREAKING FUN! Goblins have short lives, a lot of it self-inflicted. However, instead of worrying about it, they embrace it. And that fun, even if it ends in sacrifice, is gonna make an awesome story that'll be memorable for a long time. No one is gonna remember G'thunk, who just sat in the cave all day, but EVERYONE is gonna remember Wipple, who stole a dragon egg and made it halfway down the mountain, but then the dragon caught up to him and used its fire breath, cooking Wipple and accidentally setting off the black powder he just happened to have and blowing a big ass hole in the side of the mountain. Wipple Egg-Snatcher is gonna go down in history as a really awesome dude worthy of celebration, and is going to be the inspiration of many goblins afterwards. If you ain't having a good time, are you even really living?

[@Toey-]

Wipple Egg-Snatcher is my hero

[@herbert164]

but the real question is, did he kill the dragon too?

[@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149]

In other words the goblin is, in archetype, _me and the bois_

[@perjohanaxell9862]

So goblins are a teen gang, us before we got any prefrontal cortex.

[@lainhikaru5657]

Goblins are awesome.

[@eyjafjallajokullmyrdalsjok3644]

Goblins aren't unintelligent, they possess a different type of intelligence.

[@funnymcfunfuns1455]

They serve the greater good, like ants

[@renancolli3700]

They're practical and won't care about simple details such as "proper standards against product malfunction" when crafting a siege engine.

[@Allirin0The0Mad]

Intelligence is subjective so I guess you can say you're right and you're wrong

[@nate235gaming]

Don't judge a goblin by their ability to build a castle, or they will grow up thinking they are stupid.

[@parisulki729]

Goblins are Neurodivergent

[@tatesmith4527]

1:31 "Or anarchy in it's purest form" Spice8Rack : allow me to intervene!

[@AzazinNote]

Said I once, and will repeat: “I love lightning! It’s my best invention since the rock.” -Toggo, goblin weaponsmith

[@coltonwilliams4153]

Toggo is a genius!

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

I was expecting some mention of the times goblins expanded to other colors, namely Gruul and Rakdos.

[@toast4880]

I didn't think of that! That would be an amazing follow video, I hope they see this comment and get inspired to make that video.

[@DiceTry]

I really wanted to keep this video focused on the core question but perhaps that's something to explore in the future

[@pavelech2565]

Izzet goblins as well*

[@pavelech2565]

And boros too!

[@Shadowlink4546]

My favorite goblin card is from war of the spark, goblin assault team, because it has goblins from each red aligned guild.

[@gobomania]

Think an important aspect of red, is that with absence of the order of white and the rigid methodology of blue, red have limitless possibilities. To translate it into the medium of music: White will make poems that harmonize and weave tales of traditions and history albeit with little innovation to it. Blue will make contemporary fusion jazz, no one might like the tune, but the raw techniques can't be disputed and it is pushing the medium its limits. Red will invent a whole new genre and call it "neo-gabber-step", it might be the new best thing changing the world of music or just the best thing for red who created it, red doesn't really care.

[@Dracomandriuthus]

Black creates very well polished pieces either through some level of desire for a good product, or simply to make *money*. Green is tricky.

[@luhjinsuuth]

@@Dracomandriuthus Green plays the same traditional music over and over.

[@samuraicupcake289]

Goblins live in Mountains. The end.

[@enibeni2071]

Goblins are very different from eachother, the difference is bigger than the difference between human races. According to the laws of natural evolution, diferent bodies mean diferent evolution (different struggle, diferent climate, different diet, different way of surviving etc). Sometimes, creators forget It when they are creating fictional works.

[@samuraicupcake289]

@@enibeni2071 They didn't forget when they made Shadowmoor. Goblins there live in swamps. So they're black. And sometimes they like to live in forests... but they're chaotic and selfish, which green is not... so they gruul.

[@TheForbiddenDance]

This is 100% the answer the first creatures, including goblins, were color aligned the way they were

[@senkuplant3607]

This makes me realise how beautiful goblins are. I always thought they were funny creatures, I have a folder on my phone dedicated to hilarious goblin cards. But now I envy them and I respect them a lot now.

[@shadown5757]

Excellent analysis of my favorite MTG creature. I remember when I first played MTG and was introduced to the game by using a goblin deck (mono red) and at the beginning I observed how the goblins moved and how suicidal they seem even towards the player by having to take damage to do more damage towards the opponent or it’s creatures. The goblins thought me the importance of sacrifice and being able to take some pain in order to dish out a greater result at the end 😎🤙

[@SephonDK]

Goblins are unruly, independent, chaotic, proactive, emotional, and fiercely defensive of their kin. Often they are stupid, but interestingly, none of their core traits mean they are. Honestly some of their more humorous self destructive methods and improper equipment seems to showcase they understand the ridiculousness of their practices and go out with a bang. They know engineering but utilize it towards explosions because it's fun and sometimes opt to inflate the toad instead of just using a normal war balloon. Because it's exciting and funny.

[@mr.mobboss1190]

Great video! I really enjoyed it. I love goblins and red. Goblins have always been chaos incarnate, ingenious in their own way and approach life with a reckless abandonment i somewhat envy.

[@DragonxFlutter]

Many Goblins on Ravnica are a combination of Red and Blue, likely because of their association with the Izzet. One could rationalize this in saying that the environment of the Izzet League lends itself towards mad science; which the Goblin would flourish in. Other Goblins are associated with the RG Gruul Clans and the WR Boros Legion. After the Definitive Color series, I think a remake of or addition to videos like this would benefit from talking about all representations of a creature type and how multicolored versions redefine what it means to be a Goblin.

[@tomasgomez6142]

I love you for making this video. I didn't know it till now, but I have been waiting for this for years

[@koffeinx6738]

Just got to love the lore of muxus. They are 5 siblings and each day they roll a die, who sits on the sedan chair and who carries it. When they roll a 6, they have a day off

[@DNApex]

I'd love to see something similar for green elves! Or blue/green merfolk, as that one always felt odd to me, but is like, the archetypical Simic race? I'd love to hear you talk about either of those!

[@DiceTry]

Well if this video does really well we can explore more creature types for sure

[@mikifauns]

Elves => Tree fuckers => Trees green Merfolk => Underwater => Water is blue I rest my case.

[@Sunborne187]

Someone call Spice8Rack.

[@DiceTry]

I would be curios to know what he thinks of this video

[@esbeng.s.a9761]

this was the first of yours video I watch, and it had me send down a rabbit hole of intrick. So I thank you for introducion be to this I have found that Im temur.

[@snugglyface7834]

I love how you used the ערב של שושנים tune in the background for the community segment, also this is an amazing video thank you

[@Lokeso]

Fun game. Take a shot every time he says the word "goblin". Now, that's red lmao.

[@LovelyBozo]

Or, and hear me out, they decided that with all the aggressive cards red had (even in the games infancy, such as lightning bolt) goblins would be a good aggressive creature to suit red.

[@Rucarlos]

Instant sub. What a great video!

[@enigmaticvaran6597]

That was beautiful

[@atamaminami5752]

Goblin love! Here's to my little dream collab of you doing a video with Spice8Rack one day.

[@gp-1542]

*CUZ RED MEANZ FASTA YA GLOSSY GIT*

[@FridaysJanKenPon]

💥🔥

[@Aaackermann]

Goblins always have fun, with what they are doing. Living in a world of violence? Ok, let's do it. But do it in a fun way! Humans cope with death by humour. To me it always seem like gobbos are more passionate and emotional than you think. Riddicule death means also taking away the seriousness and the emotional impact. Humour takes intelligence. And the fact that gobbos are a tribe and commradery driven pack lets assume that they are way more social than many others. And this takes social intelligence. They are small and have to come up with ways of compensating their lack of physical strength, and boy do they so. And the biggest question is: why aren't gobbos green! I can only imagine that even mother nature is fed up with them beeing so chaotic, that green simply doesn't recognize them as one of its creatures and so they had to change their place in theworld and went for red. This was pure necessity, not a choice, but again they adapted. They aren't "fire" as one would imagine, but they can use fire to fit in this new category. And so they became more red, than even the dragon, embodyment of red, which is an accomplishment on its own!

[@BasicallyGoblin]

I like this episode.

[@DiceTry]

The one true goblin would say that😆

[@BasicallyGoblin]

@@DiceTry my seal of approval.

[@AccessAccess]

I think it was more utilitarian, they just needed a base creature type for the "weenies" of each color. So you had man (white), elf (green), merfolk (blue), goblin (red), and undead (black). If it were based on 80's fantasy (like early D&D) goblins back then were not terribly clever or intelligent, they would be green (animalistic) or black (sadistic). Only with newer fantasy like Warcraft were goblins largely thought of as being capable or even gifted inventors whose fantastic machines could match those of humans or even dwarves.

[@millerdiamond708]

because red makes them go faster thats why

[@phir9255]

gotta go fast

[@jonathancrosby1583]

It's not that goblins are red its that red is emotional and primal and so are goblins so them being red so early drove the color pie toward that

[@DiceTry]

That is a very interesting way to look at it, I like it

[@Smilkma]

Goblins literally embody red if you go off how a goblin is and what red stands for

[@garryame4008]

I adore this content. Really excellent writing IMO

[@__-be1gk]

Goblins were put in red because they live in the mountains, that's it.

[@DiceTry]

That's boring have some imagination

[@__-be1gk]

@@DiceTry I mean, you can dress it up all you want with justifications wotc came up with later, but that's the reason. Same reason Dwarves were/are red.

[@burner555]

Then the question becomes why mountains generate red mana

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

But also they match perfectly with red philosophy

[@davidfrank3058]

Is it possible that goblins, dwarves, amd orcs aere priginally red simply because they traditionally live in moutainsand caves? I love that their temperments do fit what the color pie became, but I wonder if "location" was the original reason? Like tundra wolves in white.

[@mikifauns]

Gobbos like fire Fire is red Gobbos like red Red and gobbed pilled.

[@satansamael666]

I do want to see a vid on the eldrazi.

[@perjohanaxell9862]

Goblins are great. I actually think there is a lot of red/blue in them. Curiosity, reckless innovation, resorsfullnes and creativity are very red/blue things to me.

[@charless1145]

Anarchy isn't analogous to chaos.

[@Myagic]

Can we have "why are faeries blue" next?

[@BushSage]

Goblins angy, red feels angy and emotional, goblins is angy and emotional.

[@jeremyzang8802]

I wonder how many different kinds of goblins there are I can remember three distinctively the fury ones the green ones and the slightly larger pale skined ones we see alot less of I an so very curious

[@juanmiranda3217]

I just figured Mountains are red and goblins are usually found in mountains so they are also red

[@MoonWatcher.]

My favorite part about Goblins is the flavor text in their cards, it's so often hilarious

[@terryschmitt8050]

Why are merfolk blue?

[@DiceTry]

Honestly it's a question I wonder myself and it might be one of those times when I disagree with wotc

[@terryschmitt8050]

@@DiceTry that would be a great video. Thank you for all the fun content!

[@funnymcfunfuns1455]

Because they live in the ocean.

[@Tomrash]

With certain colors, esp. blue, they just forced themeselfes into a situation where they just have to have most cards be a color because that is where they live/what element they use. Otherwise most Merfolk would likely be green.

[@phir9255]

There are tribes mechanics in every color what's so strange about that?

[@lichwood4429]

Actually, Goblins are Green

[@Warcrazy911]

The best comment

[@benzur3503]

Cause goblin nimble goblin quick

[@gabrielnguyen5580]

red goes fasta

[@JayceR]

Mountains...

[@tictacattk]

But WHY is the heavy dead?

[@jakobchong1383]

Cause red is fast

[@ruttokyrpa3472]

Bekoose red goes faster! it's a skientifik fakt!

[@waynetriba3281]

Jordan Peterson presents a dissertation on Goblins

[@keffkeff160]

It's because goblins live in mountains.

[@NateTmi]

& then this happened, Faceaulter, Weirding shaman, boggart mob, sling Gang Lieutenant, Boggart Harbinger, Earwig Squad, Frogtosser Banneret, Mad Auntie, Warren Pilferers, Knucklebone Witch, Auntie Snitch, Facevaulter, Hornet Harasser, Squeaking Pie Grudfollowers, Marsh Flitter, Warren Pilferers, Bog Hoodlums, Exiled Boggart, Warteye Witch, & that is just the black goblin cards I have seen, I bet I missed some. (& B4 u asked I skipped any goblin zombies) Also I have most of the cards on this list in paper

[@colebear]

don't need to watch. goblins red cause red go fast, goblin go fast!!!

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

: D

[@DiceTry]

XD

[@thesmilyguyguy9799]

@@DiceTry :)

[@ZarHakkar]

Goblins are green tho

[@caidenlipoth1247]

I hate to break it to you, but most goblins are green.

[@KungPowMeow]

As a TESL player I had this thought

[@zacharyellis3336]

Bc with goblins life is cheap

[@X3HH76]

I don't think it's that deep bro

[@pondcurtis9725]

Why am I seeing this shit

[@nicolasvillasecaali7662]

Because goblin is everything

[@phir9255]

Because you have eyes

[@pondcurtis9725]

@@phir9255 ok, but then why are you seeing this?

[@phir9255]

@@pondcurtis9725 Because I clicked on it

[@Necro_Hexual]

You have been chosen by the goblin

[@congriofish]

I need another season of goblin slayer 😭