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  • Boros Goblins (Standard) – Deck Tech by MTGGoldfish

    You love you some goblins, don’t you? Admit it! Check out this fun Standard boros (white/red) goblins deck built by Ross Merriam from Starcitygames.

    It incorporates some new fun cards from guilds of ravnica!

    SaffronOlive gives a breakdown and some alternate options. Check out the video, decklist, and more articles below!

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    Boros Goblins Decklist

    Click To Read the full deck article on MTGgoldfish

    Click To Download The Decklist (.txt)

    4 Clifftop Retreat
    2 Conclave Tribunal
    1 Dark-Dweller Oracle
    4 Goblin Chainwhirler
    4 Goblin Instigator
    2 Goblin Warchief
    4 Legion Warboss
    2 Lightning Strike
    15 Mountain
    3 Radiant Destiny
    4 Sacred Foundry
    4 Siege-Gang Commander
    4 Skirk Prospector
    1 Stone Quarry
    4 Volley Veteran
    2 Wily Goblin

    1 Banefire
    2 Experimental Frenzy
    2 Fight with Fire
    2 Goblin Trashmaster
    2 Huatli, Warrior Poet
    2 Lava Coil
    4 Shock

  • (29 Tix) 12 Bolt by MTGGoldfish [Modern] – Fun, Competitive Budget Burn Deck!

    Love Burn? Love Budget? Love Winning? Well there’s an amazing new deck that you must try out!

    SaffronOlive has released what he’s saying is probably the most competitive budget deck he’s played yet. That means if you’re strapped for cash, you can pick up this deck and actually have a good chance of being VERY competitive at your local FNM or online.

    Sounds fun, eh?

    The Deck is called “12 Bolt” because it uses a couple of weird tricks to basically have twelve copies total of Lightning Bolt 

    You can check out the full article here

    Budget Version Deck Tech + Gameplay (From @SaffronOlive)

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    Non Budget Version Deck Tech + Gameplay

    Saffron also played a sooped-up non budget version of this deck on this week’s MTGGoldfish Twitch Stream

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    Budget Version Deck List

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    4 Bomat Courier
    4 Faithless Looting
    4 Fiery Temper
    4 Ghitu Lavarunner
    2 Grim Lavamancer
    3 Gut Shot
    1 Insult/Injury
    4 Lightning Bolt
    4 Monastery Swiftspear
    18 Mountain
    4 Soul-Scar Mage
    4 The Flame of Keld
    4 Wizard’s Lightning

    2 Damping Sphere
    3 Goblin Chainwhirler
    2 Smuggler’s Copter
    3 Spite of Mogis
    3 Tormod’s Crypt
    2 Young Pyromancer

    Non-Budget Version Deck List

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    4 Bomat Courier
    4 Faithless Looting
    4 Fiery Temper
    4 Ghitu Lavarunner
    2 Grim Lavamancer
    3 Gut Shot
    1 Hazoret the Fervent
    4 Lightning Bolt
    4 Monastery Swiftspear
    18 Mountain
    4 Soul-Scar Mage
    4 The Flame of Keld
    4 Wizard’s Lightning

    2 Blood Moon
    1 Damping Sphere
    3 Goblin Chainwhirler
    1 Hazoret the Fervent
    3 Relic of Progenitus
    2 Shattering Spree
    2 Smuggler’s Copter
    1 Spite of Mogis

  • Five Color Panharmonicon [Standard] – by MTGGoldfish

    Do you love exploiting the Panharmonicon creature ability triggers? SaffronOlive is the master of this fun card, and since it’s rotating out of standard, he’s been spending all week playing Panharmonicon brews (Panharmonicon week!)

    Check out a live twitch stream playing a super fun and spicy five color brew:

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  • Evershrike By MTGGoldfish [Modern] – Modern Mayhem

    Watch Saffron Olive pilot the latest jank in the form of this fun graveyard-enchantress -ish style deck built around Evershrike – a bizarre creature that demands the deck be built entirely around it.

    Basically, it tosses lots of things into the graveyard (Dredge style) then Evershrike comes back out at a discount price + a couple powerful enchantments and you swing for the win!

    evershrike

    Watch The Deck Tech and Gameplay

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    Resources:

    Read The Full Deck Article Here

    Download Declist (.TXT)

    Decklist:

    2 Blackcleave Cliffs
    1 Blood Crypt
    4 Bloodghast
    2 Bloodsoaked Champion
    4 Bloodstained Mire
    4 Evershrike
    4 Faithless Looting
    2 Fatal Push
    1 Forest
    2 Grisly Salvage
    1 Mountain
    2 Overgrown Tomb
    4 Rancor
    4 Satyr Wayfinder
    4 Stinkweed Imp
    4 Stitcher’s Supplier
    1 Stomping Ground
    2 Swamp
    4 Verdant Catacombs
    2 Viscera Seer
    2 Wooded Foothills
    4 Wreath of Geists

    1 Ancient Grudge
    2 Anger of the Gods
    1 Collective Brutality
    3 Damping Sphere
    3 Destructive Revelry
    1 Fatal Push
    4 Leyline of the Void

  • Sly Sword (Modern) by MTGGoldfish Gameplay – Modern Highlights 11/12/18

    Watch SaffronOlive from MTGGoldfish pilot “Sly Sword” a fun modern deck featuring nice combos between Thopter Foundry, Sword of The Meek and Whir of Invention, among others.

    Watch The Deck Tech and Gameplay Video

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    More Info On The Deck:

    Read The Full Article On MtgGoldfish

    Full Decklist:

    4 Chromatic Star
    3 Darksteel Citadel
    4 Grinding Station
    1 Hallowed Fountain
    2 Island
    4 Memnite
    1 Moorland Haunt
    4 Mox Opal
    1 Myr Moonvessel
    2 Nihil Spellbomb
    2 Ornithopter
    4 Polluted Delta
    4 Scrap Trawler
    4 Sly Requisitioner
    4 Spire of Industry
    3 Springleaf Drum
    4 Sword of the Meek
    4 Thopter Foundry
    2 Watery Grave
    3 Whir of Invention

    1 Battle at the Bridge
    2 Damping Sphere
    2 Ghirapur Aether Grid
    1 Pithing Needle
    1 Ratchet Bomb
    1 Sun Droplet
    2 Surgical Extraction
    1 The Antiquities War
    3 Wear/Tear
    1 Welding Jar

  • Watch Me Play – BR Wheel of Time in Modern (By MtgGoldfish)

    Hey there!

    Joshua here, and I’m back to show you my underwhelming performance with a deck featured in an instant deck tech by SaffronOlive from Mtggoldfish.

    Original Deck Tech:

    Youtube Video

    Article on MtgGoldfish

    It’s a black and red deck featuring the card reforge the soul and other wheel effects, combo’d up with cards like liliana’s caress, waste not and Hollow Ones to get some fun effects going.

    I unfortunately didn’t have a great run, but you can watch me pilot the deck here:

     

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    Watch the Deck Tech by MTGgoldfish here:

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    Decklist:

     

    4 Blood Crypt
    4 Bloodghast
    3 Bloodstained Mire
    3 Burning Inquiry
    3 Dark Deal
    3 Dragonskull Summit
    3 Fatal Push
    3 Ghost Quarter
    3 Graven Cairns
    2 Gurmag Angler
    4 Hollow One
    4 Inquisition of Kozilek
    3 Lightning Bolt
    4 Liliana’s Caress
    3 Mountain
    4 Reforge the Soul
    3 Swamp
    4 Waste Not

    2 Collective Brutality
    2 Damping Sphere
    1 Pyroclasm
    2 Ratchet Bomb
    1 Shattering Spree
    1 Slaughter Games
    2 Surgical Extraction
    2 Tormod’s Crypt
    2 Witchbane Orb

  • Mono Black Devotion In Modern – 8/21/18 Update

    I updated my mono black devotion deck for modern. Check it out!

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  • UR Sai Master by MTGGoldish (16 Tix) $97 – Modern Highlights 8/14/18

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  • [Standard] Goblin Gift $49 (19 tix) By MTGGolfish – Standard Highlights 7/31/18

    [Standard] Goblin Gift $49 (19 tix) By MTGGolfish

    Are you ready for some standard goblins in the Dominaria and M19 era? Well SaffronOlive from MtgGoldfish has got you covered! Check out this awesome new deck with yes, the infamous Gobling Chainwhirler, but also some not-so-well known characters, and a surprisingly fun and effective syngergy with God Pharoa’s Gift!

    Read the full article on mtggoldfish.com: Goblin Gift On MtgGoldfish

    Watch the deck tech and gameplay: Goblin Gift By SaffronOlive On Youtube

    Want to Build Goblin Gift On MTG Arena?: Read “Goblin Gift in Arena, (Easy to craft from RDW!)”

     

    Decklist:

    1 Abrade
    4 Bomat Courier
    4 Dark-Dweller Oracle
    4 Fanatical Firebrand
    4 Gate to the Afterlife
    4 Goblin Chainwhirler
    4 Goblin Instigator
    3 Goblin Trashmaster
    2 God-Pharaoh’s Gift
    23 Mountain
    3 Siege-Gang Commander
    4 Skirk Prospector

    3 Abrade
    2 Aethersphere Harvester
    2 Banefire
    2 Chandra’s Defeat
    2 Crook of Condemnation
    2 Magma Spray
    2 Puncturing Blow

  • MTGO Gameplay: Ghalta Gearhulk (By MTGGoldfish) Budget Modern

    I sat down to play a couple games with my new favorite modern/standard deck, Ghalta Gearhulk by Saffron Oliver from MTGGoldfish.

    You can pick the deck up for about 30tix on mtgo, so it’s super easy to get. It’s an absolute blast to play. Lots of dinosaurs, a bit of removal, some ramp…and oh yeah, this really sweet combo between Combustible Gearhulk and Ghalta, Primal Hunger…and also, well pretty much all the other dinos in the deck.

    combustible gearhulk

    ghalta primal hunger

     

    Basically, when you play gearhulk, either

    1. you get to draw 3 cards OR
    2. your opponent lets you reveal the top 3 cards from your library, and they take damage equal to the converted mana cost.

    Ghalta costs 12 mana so…there is some wicked potential for damage without anything else happening. I’ve seen it do over 20 damage in a single flip.

    So that’s just lurking in the deck, not to mention it’s a fun and decent aggro deck with lots of stompy dinos.

    Also, with regosaur alpha, it’s pretty easy and achievable to have a hasty Ghalta pretty quickly…which is naaasty for opponents.

    Anywho, here’s the first couple games.

    If you like the deck, check it out on MTGGoldfish:

    MTGGoldfish Youtube Deck Tech/ Gameplay

    Deck summary on MTGGoldfish

    Watch Video On Youtube