Goblin Army

Format: Commander

Commander: The Great Goblin

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Goblin Aristocrats and Counter-Burn strategy helmed by The Great Goblin. The game plan revolves around generating Goblin and Orc tokens, amassing Army counters, and leveraging sacrifice engines to burn opponents while chaining impulse card advantage. The Great Goblin turns every counter placed on a Goblin, Orc, or Army into 2 damage directed at an opponent, while converting every creature death into an exiled card playable through the next turn. This dual engine enables rapid velocity, digging through the library to assemble infinite persist sacrifice loops using Putrid Goblin or Murderous Redcap paired with counter negators like Metallic Mimic or Thran Vigil. Alternatively, the deck can pivot to an overwhelming go-wide combat plan with Krenko, Mob Boss and Coat of Arms. While vulnerable to instant-speed creature removal and graveyard hate, the deck boasts explosive mana burst and high redundancy.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Battle Cry Goblin
  • 1 Battle Hymn
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Boggart Mischief
  • 1 Bolg's Company
  • 1 Brightstone Ritual
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dragon Fodder
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dropkick Bomber
  • 1 Eclipsed Boggart
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 First Day of Class
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Gev, Scaled Scorch
  • 1 Goblin Chirurgeon
  • 1 Goblin Matron
  • 1 Goblin Warchief
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Grub's Command
  • 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
  • 1 Howlsquad Heavy
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Krenko's Command
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Legion Warboss
  • 1 Mad Auntie
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 17 Mountain
  • 1 Munitions Expert
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Taurean Mauler
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Village Rites