UNDEFEATED WITH STICKER GOBLIN! Turbo Muxus _____ Goblin Aggro (Legacy Goblins MTG)

[@TriforceCollector]

So excited to see Mind Goblin get some action!

[@JohnFromAccounting]

Mind Goblin is more confusing in paper.

[@TriforceCollector]

@@JohnFromAccounting It's interesting seeing how the different Mtgo version is playing out. In paper you at least know the value of your mind goblin before you cast it as your sticker sheets are known.

[@mikeames138]

Ive been working on a Mind Goblin/squirrel deck

[@jfb-]

@@TriforceCollector on the other hand, the second mind goblin in paper is a bit less effective as you've already used up your best sticker; whereas in mtgo it's still always going to be mana positive

[@assault410]

Mind goblin these nuts

[@JohnFromAccounting]

I really want Goblins to become a staple of the meta.

[@Melissanoma]

"Well, I think this one qualifies and I hope you do too". confirmed. as soon as I saw the thumbnail I knew this would be it. edit: and game "1" you do the thing!

[@lancergt1000]

damn, the Name Sticker Goblin didn't sugarcoat it

[@mamathana]

I played a lot of Historic combo goblins back when Muxus was new. The most powerful part of that deck was secretly being a good aggro deck that just happened to have a T3-T4 combo kill. This deck feels the same. Excellent vid 🎉

[@dl0.0lb]

I think in general, Phil from the Future is my favorite recurring character on this show.

[@rookermtg9321]

Battle Cry Goblin such an underrated card. I love that little mana sink

[@Dhips.]

It's won me many games in both commander and arena.

[@ReyaadawnMTG]

___ Goblin is the 2nd or 3rd best ritual ever printed but nobody wanted to deal with the sticker nonsense to get there

[@eirh]

Battlecry Goblin is one of these cards that I always get surprised when I see it's an uncommon. It does so much so efficiently. I guess it could get away with the uncommon rarity in draft due to not too much goblin synergy in the set, but it still ended up being one of the best cards of that format.

[@SoulsOnly]

yeah, card was disgusting in that draft format

[@zoninkspl6597]

Battlecry goblin was like the mythic uncommon of the format and probably top 5 card in the set in limited. It's so innocuous but it's legit just a legacy powerlevel card somehow

[@alexmaragh7766]

The fact that in my head it’s mind goblin shows my immaturity

[@simpsonzack22]

Ok, I really wanna bring this deck to a legacy tournament.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Do it.

[@bladeflesh]

I’m assuming you would have to bring a sticker deck instead of just rolling a die

[@The-Nomad1]

@@bladeflesh to be fair that's just googling what an optimal sticker deck looks like, then you get to deal the mental damage to your opps at the beginning of every match when you present the sticker deck

[@GeoQuag]

For about 12:00, submerge requires your opponent (you in this case) to control a forest for it to be a free cast, so not something to worry about there. Hard to remember that when the primary use case is to kill the uncountable and indestructible marit lage token, a card usually played in decks with forests.

[@anonzillaking]

Jim davis taught me alot about gobo decks. this deck runs really well because it has two "combo' wins built into the main plan with those combos just being the main plan as well. sticker goblin feels like the second prospector allowing you to really utilize just how much your goblins will draw it almost feels like elves but better because your pieces do the drawing without any additional help from cards like glimpse

[@BjornarUrang]

I'm very excited to see mind goblin on mtgo! And very happy you showcased it. I also believe you lucksacked this league, drawing skirk prospector in all of your opening hands :) I've been playing this in paper since november, and would recommend playing goblin lackeys and a slightly reduced number of fast mana. Your land count is also a bit high. Playing mind goblin turn one is not necessary. Turn two is just fine, and with fewer mana sources, I actually think the deck becomes more stable. It will topdeck better if your key cards get dealt with and the game drags out. I've been tuning this for almost a year now. Consider this: 5 Mountain 3 Shatterskull Smashing 4 Cavern of Souls 4 Ancient Tomb 3 City of Traitors 3 Chrome Mox 2 Simian Spirit Guide 4 Goblin Lackey 4 Skirk Prospector 3 Rundvelt Hordemaster 1 Mogg War Marshall 2 Battle Cry Goblin 4 Goblin Matron 3 Goblin Warchief 4 _____ Goblin 2 Pashalik Mons 3 Goblin Ringleader 4 Muxus 2 Fury Sideboard: 4 Leyline of the Void 2 Chalice of the void 2 Red Elemental Blast 1 Goblin Trashmaster 2 Fury 1 Blood Moon 1 Magus of the Moon 1 Surgical Extraction 1 Dead // Gone

[@CharlotteMimic]

Battle Cry Goblin was NASTY in limited. Excited to see it do work in Legacy LOL Notable difference between MTGO and paper: in paper you both know ahead of time how much mana NSG can make.

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I expected to think that card was mid, and I was WRONG.

[@Geroaergaroe]

​@@ThrabenUniversity Fun fact : even Goblin player thought it was mid. Then Bowmaster kicked the traditional hordemaster in the proverbial nuts and they rediscovered BCG. With Mind Goblin right after.

[@kyleucf]

How does it work in paper? I can’t seem to figure it out.

[@GeoQuag]

@@kyleucf you pick your 3 random sticker cards at the beginning of the game but you get to pick the stickers that go on your goblin, so you know exactly how many times you will get 6, 5, or 4 mana and can control when each happens.

[@jfb-]

@@kyleucf you bring a sticker deck of at least 10 stickers, and at the start of each game you randomly select 3 of them and those will be accissible to use durign the game. there'a an optimal list of 10 stickers that no matter which group of 3 you get garuntees at least 1 sticker makes at least 4 mana.

[@Eisenwulf666]

"Looks like Goblin is back on the menu bois!"

[@countOfHenneberg]

That laugh at the end of the first game...

[@Petronio39]

I love seeing battlecry goblin do stuff because I looked at that card and was immediately like, "Ohh damn, this card is the nuts, and will be like 25c." I love it when really budget cards can pull a ton of weight, and goblins is the posterchild archetype for that.

[@shawnspringstead]

Round 1 game 2, opponent could have bolted the sticker goblin to stop the chain since the ability requires the card exist when it resolved? Brewers advantage.

[@Korwinga]

It's cool to see goblins shift from the controlly classic legacy goblins to more of a stompy build. Very neat.

[@RiKSh4w]

Is it stompy? Between this and historic it's more of a really stupid combo deck. You just reach 6 mana, play Muxus and spew unbelievable value onto the field. And if you jump through all the combo-hate hoops to disable Muxus then it's a weak tribal deck that will beat you before you can stop the combo THEN pivot into beating a fair beatdown.

[@usagi2988]

Love seeing Goblins do their thing!

[@54321eclipse12345]

A creature that turns 3 mana into 4? Initiative entered the chat.

[@twidgetron328]

Seems like Goblin Warchief could be one of the goblins to cut/sideboard out. The double R at 3 mana hurts since you can't turn 2 it off of a sol land, and its effect is really on relevant on Muxus turns if you manage to rip it.

[@GlichCentral]

On a side note, the picture you used from scryfall at the beginning there is the scan of the weird foil treatment. There’s also a scan of the non-foil version available, but for some reason the name-sticker goblin page links to the weird foil page instead

[@gimmemahhamburger5137]

Hey Mr. University, I think it'd be cool if you could speed up an uneventful or "unsatisfying" match to like 10x speed instead of just not including it, maybe talking over it or explaining why you didnt want to include it. I've seen other mtg youtubers do that for their uneventful matches and it goes pretty well.

[@Zauzzie]

I think hes match one opponent didnt play or do anything(maybe connection issues?), which is reasonable to skip the match.

[@gimmemahhamburger5137]

@@Zauzzie ohhhhh I thought maybe it was the case that his opponent did very little, if they did absolutely nothing then yeah nevermind

[@Korwinga]

It's definitely cool to get the name sticker goblin into MTGO, but it's unfortunate that you can't see what you're going to get from it the way that you can in paper. This is seen fairly clearly just the first game. In paper, you would know if one of your 3 available sticker sheets had Guacamole. If it did, you could have went for turn 1 Muxis deterministically. Having it be random means the deck has to go a little bit more slower than it otherwise might, even if the randomness does mean that you can high roll two 6 mana goblins in a single game. A higher ceiling, but at the cost of randomness.

[@krazyesko]

Hi sir, yes it was tonyscapone deck very hard to pilot. Thanks to you also to always be kind with whatever players your face. I was listening to your channel since years. Very happy to be facing you. What not this happy for the deck choice. But I did drawn well for the 2 games but I should mul the game 3 - see you around

[@shaunbarber2325]

... did MtGO just do alchemy?

[@2007Shockwave]

Looks like it. And on top of things powered up a card...

[@christianroot6287]

this is how the card works afaik, its just weirder to implement

[@benjaminsouthworth5698]

@@2007Shockwavetbf I’m fairly sure the Mtgo version is worse, from what I’ve seen the average mind goblin in paper can make ~5 mana consistently in paper and it’s really important to always know how much mana you’re making when you’re planning out lines like sometimes with this version you’ll play out a mind goblin in the hope it makes x mana and roll low and be like Welp, guess my hand doesn’t work anymore

[@chillaxbro107]

Battle cry goblin is copies 9-12 of goblin bushwhacker in my old super budget 12 wack modern deck and it was really fun

[@Dhips.]

Big fan of goblins, what a joy to see you play them. I'd add another Battle Cry Goblin though.

[@Zauzzie]

@12:00 you could have played around removal by playing the battlefield goblin and saving 1 more gobbo for mana giving everything +1+0 and haste and still got the kill.

[@derekhall8453]

I hate that they made a sticker mechanic outside of an Un-Set

[@BernardoHenriques4]

This

[@spyderman312]

11:30 the second matron should get another Sticker. Then you get to play it and battle cry goblin for the big swing.

[@teddythodo3302]

I just realized your name is Phil Gallagher like Phillip Gallagher from shameless 😂

[@ryankane8836]

Goblins is my main legacy deck, excited to try this out

[@IeuroI]

"that was fast" - thats what she said 😏

[@42sporks5]

Love live the muxus king!

[@simonteesdale9752]

There's also a secret 4th Worldgorger combo piece that makes you deal with stickers. Last Voyage of the _____.

[@Reversespacehippie]

Obligatory algorithmic contribution

[@steveheist6426]

I honestly think the upside of *having* the occasional "oops I Muxus'd T1" and the "heh here's a 5/2 Name Sticker Goblin and a 4/1 Battle-Cry Goblin" together makes NSG worth playing.

[@PVDH_magic]

NSG?

[@steveheist6426]

@@PVDH_magic I didn't realize spelling out Name Sticker Goblin and then abbreviating Name Sticker Goblin as NGS (for Name Sticker Goblin, sometimes abbreviated as NGS) would cause issues understanding that NGS was abbreviating Name Sticker Goblin, or that Name Sticker Goblin can be abbreviated as NGS. This far-too-sarcastic-response brought by reading comprehension through interpreting the whole sentence as a unit. Also I stole NGS as an abbreviation elsewhere in the comments so I thought it was commonplace. Such is life.

[@PVDH_magic]

Haha no problem, I just haven't come across that yet and couldn't figure it out looking over the decklist@@steveheist6426 It probably doesn't help that almost exclusively see that card called Mind Goblin :p

[@bryankopkin6869]

“Whats mind goblin?” 😈

[@robnotwicz7002]

Amazing

[@JohnnyDeLeo1]

First! Because I was looking for something to distract me at work.

[@charlesfuller7774]

Ahh. The goblin nuts jokes are now on mtggo. Nice

[@juancruzblasco9477]

Goblins being playable again thanks to a joke card is oddly fitting

[@sinart11]

39:00 could activiate 2nd time after the 1/1 was made, though didn't matter.

[@whit4446]

sticker decks are DOA in paper, absolute nightmare, needs a judge rules explanation every round, no one is going to take the time to learn a gimic unset mechanic

[@squee147]

Trolls will love this deck.

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I would honestly be fine with the paper version being errata'd to work like this.

[@Qobp]

It's fitting for a goblin deck haha

[@BjornarUrang]

You need the ten sticker sheets with highest numbers of distinct wowels printed out and sleeved. The way I do it is I show my opponent the sticker sheets before we draw opening hands, for them to confirm the sheets are all unique. I then shuffle them and fan them open, and the opponent picks three. This has to be repeated for games two and three. It is reasonably random and quick. I've also put tiny bits of paper with numbers on them inside the sleeves, to keep track of which name stickers have been spent. There have been few questions and no complaints.

[@whit4446]

If this is legal, i demand for the immediate release of sensei’s top

[@felipelandi1766]

I play with blanck goblin in duel commander (is commander but 1v1 with a unique banlist) and i think this version is even more powerfull that in paper, buy it has a very important problem in paper you and your opponent always know how much mana it will add for the stickers you reveal, in here you can't know if it will add 6 and let you cast muxxuz or leave you with four and you have no to cast with that, this can affecr mulligans, if you know it will add 6 and you have it wity muxxuz in your starting hans that is an instant keep if it would add 4 maybe not, here you have to risk it, that say i know is a weird mechanic and this kinda does the job but is sad that paper magic and online magic aren't the same with this card

[@cuttlefish6839]

Attractions are legacy viable funny enough

[@RumpledNutskin]

You know Phill will 5-0 a league when he plays a chrome mox, ancient tomb, SSG deck

[@kingofredlions8729]

This seems like the type of deck I would like to build for paper, how do the sticker decks work IRL? What are the 10 sticker sheets that I would want for this deck?

[@gwendettax]

not sure how the mechanic actually works irl, but the "delusionary" sticker gives you 6 mana off the goblin every time

[@whit4446]

your opponent randomly gets to pick the 3 stickers out of the 10 stickers

[@BjornarUrang]

You need the ten sticker sheets with highest numbers of distinct wowels printed out and sleeved. The way I do it is I show my opponent the sticker sheets before we draw opening hands, for them to confirm the sheets are all unique. I then shuffle them and fan them open, and the opponent picks three. This has to be repeated for games two and three. It is reasonably random and quick. I've also put tiny bits of paper with numbers on them inside the sleeves, to keep track of which name stickers have been spent. There have been few questions and no complaints.

[@kingofredlions8729]

@@BjornarUrang Right my question is what are the 10 sheets with the most unique vowels in the names

[@BjornarUrang]

@@kingofredlions8729 The sheets are numbered, and you´d want these numbers: 1：Guacamole（4） 5：Misunderstood（4） 12：Narrow-Minded（4 ) ，Baloney（4） 13：Unsanctioned（5） 18：Phyrexian（4) 23：Minotaur（4） 30：Delusionary（6 ) 36：Gelatinous（5 ) 45 : Dinosaur ( 4 )

[@xakuyer]

Mind goblin gon deez Trophies ???

[@cantorofleng7837]

I remember trying a similar concept in vintage years ago. It's a shame that muxus is a really bad backup there.

[@wiiblewobble]

You can use stickers on modo???? :0

[@crondog]

Unfinity felt like such a betrayal. Not only did they use it to print sticker nonsense that no one wanted and everyone hated into eternal formats but they also burned the rigger/contraption mechanic that people had been waiting for since 2006.

[@chillaxbro107]

Contraptions we’re in unstable back in 2017

[@LucksackGames]

Round one noooooo

[@themaddollmaker]

So in paper, does "_____" goblin have different mana production outcomes in different languages?

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I believe that the stickers are only in English.

[@themaddollmaker]

@@ThrabenUniversity thought that might have been the case and disappointed with wotc for making a mechanic that can't translate to international players. Fell out of magic and sold my collection but still love watching your content

[@schrottinator]

I feel bad for the Magic Online team.

[@ankaarne]

It's an aggro deck masquerading as a combo deck!

[@alexvalentim1418]

It is simply idiotic for these sticker cards being blackborder

[@CoilingSliver]

I won't mind goblin down this video.

[@DiegoDiaz-ne3fx]

Ojalá me hubieses podido ayudar.

[@sinart11]

Didn't face any bowmasters, t1 Shirk on the draw removed by t2 bowmaster could be pretty bad.

[@Derpmind]

Goblin Deck Wins?

[@mefagar]

But what about Round 1 ? O.o

[@Luciferian.Latino]

I didn't Mind Goblin this league

[@wonkywombat12]

no goblin lackey is interesting

[@BjornarUrang]

Yes. This is the biggest decision point for the development of the deck, once it is online. I play lackeys and think it is the right way to go, but lackey is only a secondary route to victory in this deck. Prospector is the preferred g1 play under most circumstances. The decision whether to play lackey or not bears a lot of consequences for the rest of the list. Prospector wants small bodies to sac, and without 4 other 1-drops, it makes sense to play a high number of war marshalls. It also becomes necessary to play a high land count, to be less reliant on untapping with prospector. Lackey also makes warchief better. If you can drop warchief off lackey in the turn 2 attack, the second mainphase can become quite explosive.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

​@@BjornarUrangyou normally play Gobbos?

[@wonkywombat12]

@@BjornarUrang that's some interesting analysis, thanks!

[@BjornarUrang]

@nicholasfarrell5981 Yes. But only in paper and only once a month if I can make it. But since November I've played this deck exclusively.

[@odoylerules1435]

You think you could play 1-2 krenko mobb boss in the main, its close to infinite mana with skirk prospector and can get haste off warcheif if u got it out. Id take out 2 war marshal for it.

[@ThrabenUniversity]

I don't think War Marshal got the best showing this league. I never "lived the dream" of it being 3 mana with Skirk. That said, Krenko is legit.

[@selkokieli843]

Put Krenko in the command zone and it's actually infinite 😁

[@Rumpelstilzchen12]

Why does it say 9 or fewer NSG?

[@ThrabenUniversity]

In an attempt to make it more similar to the physical sticker experience. You can run out of stickers in paper.

[@Rumpelstilzchen12]

@@ThrabenUniversity Oh got it, thank you!

[@chrishaley42]

Does "Name Sticker" exist in paper?? I can't find it anywhere.

[@GeoQuag]

It’s called “_____ goblin” (five underscores) in paper and works slightly differently. Scryfall doesn’t like to search with underscores.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

​@GeoQuag is there any site that actually *likes* to search the underscores? Because I know that mtgtopdecks refuses to display cards with any punctuation in the name.

[@jadegrace1312]

That round 3 delver player deserved to lose as soon as they had ouphe in their deck game 2. Unless they had literally nothing better to have in their deck, they are just stupid.

[@burtreynoldz6308]

Battle cry goblin doesn't have battle cry :/

[@yakovdavidov7102]

Second..? third..?

[@dj66800]

Y isn't a vowel...

[@joek3654]

i don’t really understand why battle cry goblin is here over a more immediate haste enabler like goblin chieftain. can someone more in the know help me out here?

[@dumbbutthole7548]

Goblin warchief is in the deck too.

[@Geroaergaroe]

Mind Goblin into BCG + activation is a mean burst of damage that can't be stopped by a bolt. G1R2 could have been a win on the spot if Phil went for BCG over warchief. T1 skirk into Mind Goblin 4 mana t2 is also 10 damage if you BCG + pump.

[@ThrabenUniversity]

The pumping ability is MUCH better than it looks. I underestimated it early on.

[@joek3654]

ah, i was missing that the haste from battle cry goblin works through removal. that makes sense, thanks

[@Geroaergaroe]

@@joek3654 Another important part is that it's *real* good with skirk. You can sac creature that are blocked to fuel more pump and gain more reach. It's basically the cornerstone of any aggro line in pioneer for goblin.

[@charlesdeuter]

Thanks, I hate it.

[@coryskinnon]

Spirit guide is bad no need for it

[@BjornarUrang]

Spirit guide does not require you to commit two cards and get blown out by ouphe, like chrome mox. But if your point is to reduce the number of fast mana, I agree. I started out on 4 of each when first testing this in paper, and now play 3 chrome mox, 2 spirit guide. I actually think spirit guide should be the better card online though: When you don´t know how much mana you will get off mind goblin, smoothing your mana with spirit guide is easier than with chrome mox, simply because you don´t need to feed it another card.

[@Reversespacehippie]

Obligatory algorithmic contribution