Legacy Goblin deck

UPDATED MARCH/2022
Goblins is a deck that uses cards from one of Magic's most infamous, funny, beloved and traditional tribes: the Goblins. The deck is famous for being a straight up aggressive deck, but that isn't always the case.
The card pool available in Legacy allows Goblins to play with taxation, aggro and even combo.
==Overview ==
Goblins is a flexible deck. Independently of the version, usually the Goblins player is able to adapt the strategy to the opponent they are facing.
The deck suffers from the weakness of all creature-based decks: board-wipes. But <c>Goblin Ringleader</c> and <c>Goblin Matron</c>enable it to bounce back from board sweeping effects that would normally gravely affect the strategy.
It, sometimes, has access to mana denial abilities from <c>Wasteland</c> and <c>Rishadan Port</c>to throw opponents off balance. This play requires the usage of some of the players lands and that is where Aether Vial fits in.
The Goblin player can then use artifact to increase their board size and keep the opponent on the ropes while the lands do their taxation. And, should the plan not be the best in a given scenario, the player can switch to a more all-out offensive strategy.
==Examples of Goblins decks==
Thinking of how the deck is able to play as aggro, as taxes and as combo, this section will show a few of the decks possible for this archetype. 
===Mono-Red Goblins===
The first example refers to a Mono-Red Goblins deck. This strategy features Chalice of the Void to disrupt the opponent's plans and opts for a beatdown-based route. Since the list is Mono-Red, Blood Moon was easy to fit in the Side board. 
<deck title="Goblins - wordy333 - MTGO Legacy Preliminary - 18/02/22">
Lands
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Cavern of Souls
3 City of Traitors
7 Mountains
Creatures
4 Goblin Chieftain
4 Goblin Lackey
4 Goblin Piledriver
4 Goblin Rabblemaster
4 Goblin Warchief
4 Muxus, Goblin Grandee
4 Skirk Prospector
4 Twinshot Sniper
Instants and Sorceries
2 Shatterskull Smashing
Other Spells
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Chrome Mox
Sideboard:
3 Blood Moon
4 Faerie Macabre
1 Fury
1 Goblin Trashmaster
1 Meltdown
1 Null Rod
2 Pyrokinesis
2 Thorn of Amethyst
</deck>
===Food-Chain Goblins===
This list went for an infinite mana combo using <c>Squee, the Immortal</c> and <c>Food Chain</c>. Since <c>Squee, The Immortal</c> can be cast from exile, the player is able to keep gaining 1 surplus mana each time they do the cycle of exiling it and casting it. Then the player may close the game with <c>Pashalik Mons</c>.
And even some land disruption elements are present in the form of Wasteland with <c>Karakas</c> as an utility land.
<deck title="1st Place: Food Chain Goblins - Benedikt Brünnig - Series Bottrop (Germany) - 23/01/22">
Lands
3 Ancient Tomb
2 Arid Mesa
2 Badlands
2 Bloodstained Mire
4 Cavern of Souls
1 Karakas
2 Mountain
2 Taiga
3 Wasteland
2 Wooded Foothills
Creatures
2 Fury
1 Gempalm Incinerator
2 Goblin Cratermaker
4 Goblin Lackey
4 Goblin Matron
1 Goblin Piledriver
3 Goblin Ringleader
1 Goblin Trashmaster
2 Goblin Warchief
4 Ignoble Hierarch
3 Munitions Expert
4 Muxus, Goblin Grandee
1 Pashalik Mons
1 Skirk Prospector
2 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
1 Squee, the Immortal
Other Spells
4 Food Chain
Sideboard:
2 Faerie Macabre
3 Leyline of the void
2 Masked Vandal
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Plague Engineer
2 Pyroblast
1 Pyrokinesis
1 Stingscourger
</deck>
===Black-Red Goblins===
This one chose to go with the <c>Conspicuous Snoop</c> + <c>Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker</c> + <c>Sling-Gang Lieutenant</c> combo. The combo is made possible with <c>Goblin Harbinger</c> to tutor <c>Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker</c> and <c>Sling-Gang Lieutenant</c> to the top of the library while <c>Conspicuous Snoop</c> is in play. There are a couple ways to enact the combo, and this is a general idea on how to do it.
Here it is possible to witness the Aeher Vial working in conjunction with Rishadan Port and Wasteland to enact mana-denial on the opponent whilst applying board pressure.
<deck title="4th Place: BR Goblins - Robert H. - Turniertag MagicKeller (Hannover, Germany) - 29/01/22">
Lands
3 Badlands
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Cavern of Souls
5 Mountain
2 Rishadan Port
4 Wasteland
Creatures
3 Boggart Harbinger
4 Conspicuous Snoop
1 Goblin Chieftain
1 Goblin Cratermaker
4 Goblin Lackey
3 Goblin Matron
1 Goblin Piledriver
3 Goblin Ringleader
2 Goblin Warchief
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Krenko, Mob Boss
1 Mogg War Marshall
2 Munitions Expert
2 Muxus, Goblin Grandee
1 Pashalik Mons
1 Skirk Prospector
2 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
Instants and Sorceries
1 Tarfire
Other Spells
4 Aether Vial
Sideboard:
2 Chalice of the Void
1 Goblin Chainwhirler
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Pyroblast
2 Pyrokinesis
1 Stingscourger
1 Thorn of Amethyst
</deck>
== Notes on Goblins ==
Goblins is one of the powerful decks that allow for a competitive version of it without the need for Reserved List cards.
In such occasions, the players can choose to go with a Zoo-style beatdown strategy or a taxation route with <c>Rishadan Port</c> and <c>Wasteland</c> as seen above. In the latter, it is not uncommon to see players add <c>Chalice of the Void</c> as well as the increased number of copies of <c>Rishadan Port</c> to make up for the lack of <c>City of Traitors</c> - if the player chooses to go without Reserved List cards.
<c>Goblin Matron</c> allows the player to have a toolbox of goblin cards in the deck to be played in each situation.
Goblins in general is a well-liked archetype in the Magic community and partly due to how funny the tribe is usually represented in the cards,
== See also ==
* Legacy
* Vintage
* Modern
* Aggro
* Combo
* Red
* Goblin
* Reserved List
* Revitalization of Legacy
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