Norman Osborn by user8322640

Format: Commander

Commander: Norman Osborn // Green Goblin

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Grixis goblin-tribal/amass build that pairs a wide, token-heavy goblin swarm with a discard-and-cast-from-graveyard engine. The front face, Norman Osborn, is a cheap unblockable connive engine that filters cards into the graveyard while growing itself; the back face, Green Goblin, turns that graveyard into a reusable hand by discounting all graveyard spells by {2} and granting mayhem to every nonland card discarded this turn. The primary path to victory is overwhelming combat: Krenko, Mob Boss and Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin multiply the token count, amass effects like Misty Mountains Raider, Goblin-town Flunkies, and Tidings of War build one enormous Army, and Battle Cry Goblin supplies the haste that lets the whole swarm attack immediately. Incidental table-wide damage from Guttersnipe, Boggart Cursecrafter, Sting-Slinger, and Devoted Duelist closes games that stall. There are no infinite combos here; the deck wins through value, recursion, and goblin volume.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Battle Cry Goblin
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Boneclub Berserker
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Bulk Up
  • 1 Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Daggersail Aeronaut
  • 1 Devoted Duelist
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Down, Down to Goblin-town
  • 1 Eclipsed Boggart
  • 1 Eclipsed Realms
  • 1 Elder Auntie
  • 1 End of the Hunt
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flamestick Courier
  • 1 Founding the Third Path
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Goblin Instigator
  • 1 Goblin Marshal
  • 1 Goblin Plate Mail
  • 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
  • 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
  • 1 Gundabad Opportunist
  • 1 Gutsplitter Gang
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 Hordeling Outburst
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Key to the Side-Door
  • 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
  • 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
  • 1 Lavaleaper
  • 1 Misty Mountains Raider
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Mudbutton Cursetosser
  • 1 Mystic Redaction
  • 1 Norman Osborn // Green Goblin
  • 1 Petty Larceny
  • 1 Plunder the Trollshaws
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Ragged Short Spear
  • 1 Raging Goblinoids
  • 1 Rapturous Moment
  • 1 Redcap Raiders
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Rose Room Treasurer
  • 1 Searslicer Goblin
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shock Brigade
  • 1 Skirk Prospector
  • 1 Sneaking Guide
  • 1 Snowslope Hunter
  • 1 Squee, Dubious Monarch
  • 1 Sting-Slinger
  • 1 Stir Up Trouble
  • 1 Stony-Voiced Goblins
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Thirst for Identity
  • 1 Tidings of War
  • 1 Underfoot Underdogs
  • 1 Violent Urge
  • 1 Wander Off
  • 1 Wild Unraveling