Duel Deck: Elves vs Goblins

Yeah - but it's just SO worth it...

Of course if you plan to bring him out and actually have something to stick on him and up his toughness a little then you can just sit back and generate land mines all game.

Yeah.... 'cause mono-red is well known for it's long games and bias towards control.

In all seriousness I did make a 'Mono-Red-Control' deck once, for a laugh.

It centered around just about every burn spell I could find and playsets of both the 'act of treason' type cards that were legal in standard at the time alongside some form of sacrifice outlet (can't remember what it was now). The idea was that I'd draw, lay land, pass turn, kill anything attacking that I didn't like or burn you at the end of your turn and then untap, steal your creature - hit you with it then sacrifice it to hit you a bit more... then pass turn and leave the mana up to burn you on your turn again.

It kind of died on it's **** but I did get a couple of wins with it and, more importantly, had a serious laugh when stealing everyone's creatures and sacrificing them.

Oooooh... I like that. It's an overpriced lightning bolt sure. But there has got to be SOME way to abuse it. In the meantime you have a very obvious candidate for a slot in your Glissa the Traitor deck...

Yeah - there has got to be a way of replicating that or copying it somehow.

Lol at Goblin Game.

Goblin Grenade is just a given. it has to be there no matter what. Goblin Glider is cool enough and wacky enough to be in there perhaps along with 'Goblin Balloonist'.

Goblin Gardener is an awesome card I hadn't encountered before tonight. I like it... I want to run playsets of them and sacrifice them in order to reanimate them and sacrifice them again and again... just because.

Embermage goblin would need to come as a pair - which has been done in duel decks before so that's ok - and is actually really quite useful.

Goblin Assassin is awful to play in any form of constructed deck but just perfect for this. Goblins always have a lot of sacrifice fodder.

Goblin Assault I really like and hadn't known about before this one. I may need to get a copy for that EDH deck.

The rest are just good quality fun - yes, all of them work.

Mountains - lots of mountains.

...and some forests.


Yeah - I think that's pretty much the basic inclusions in the deck. Anything else just needs to be a generic 1/1 or 2/2 for either race.