GOBLINS! by Zayweezy

Format: Commander

Commander: Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Rakdos Goblin kindred deck combines aggressive token swarm strategies with aristocrat burn engines. Commanded by Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie, the deck transitions seamlessly between graveyard recursion on its front side and aggressive token cloning on its reverse side. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with low-cost ramp and cost reducers like Frogtosser Banneret and Skirk Prospector, deploying synergistic Goblin creatures, and establishing the commander. By Turn 4, transforming Grub allows players to blight existing Goblins to create attacking copies, duplicating high-impact creatures such as Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin or Siege-Gang Commander. The deck reaches critical pressure around Turn 5 through mass token multipliers like Krenko, Mob Boss and Shared Animosity, or indirect damage engines like Impact Tremors, Pashalik Mons, and Goblin Bombardment. Although vulnerable to sweepers and lacking extensive stack protection, its dense recursion and redundant threats ensure rapid rebuilding and table-wide lethality by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Auntie's Hovel
• 1 Auntie's Sentence
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodline Bidding
• 1 Boggart Birth Rite
• 1 Boggart Cursecrafter
• 1 Boggart Harbinger
• 1 Boggart Mischief
• 1 Boggart Prankster
• 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
• 1 Boneclub Berserker
• 1 Brightstone Ritual
• 1 Castle Embereth
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Collective Inferno
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conspicuous Snoop
• 1 Corrupted Conviction
• 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Den of the Bugbear
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Eclipsed Boggart
• 1 Eclipsed Realms
• 1 Elder Auntie
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Frogtosser Banneret
• 1 Gathering Stone
• 1 Goblin Bombardment
• 1 Goblin Burrows
• 1 Goblin Chieftain
• 1 Goblin King
• 1 Goblin Matron
• 1 Goblin Plate Mail
• 1 Goblin Trashmaster
• 1 Goblin Warchief
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Grub's Command
• 1 Grub, Storied Matriarch // Grub, Notorious Auntie
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Heirloom Auntie
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 Howlsquad Heavy
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 1 Krenko, Mob Boss
• 1 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
• 1 Loot, the Anomaly
• 1 Mad Auntie
• 1 Meek Attack
• 6 Mountain
• 1 Mudbutton Cursetosser
• 1 Munitions Expert
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Pashalik Mons
• 1 Patchwork Banner
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Retched Wretch
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
• 1 Secluded Courtyard
• 1 Secret Tunnel
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Shared Animosity
• 1 Siege-Gang Commander
• 1 Siege-Gang Lieutenant
• 1 Skirk Prospector
• 1 Sling-Gang Lieutenant
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Springleaf Drum
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Taster of Wares
• 1 Terminate
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Unbury
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Withering Boon
• 1 Withering Torment