Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight
- Thread starter Grillo_Parlante
- Start date
I think it will be an auto include. The saving grace is that it should play quite differently from deck to deck and fit into many archetypes.
Aggro loves a resilient beater and can make use of the counter synergy or use the life gain to trigger a Pridemate or something.
Midrange might blink it to stabilize or double up on a sacrifice outlet.
It could be annoying in a control deck against the aggro matchup if you block, get it back and then blink it. You gain 8 life and have 4 bodies for aggro to get through.
Last thing, it tends to signal persist combo which I don’t know if you support or not.
Aggro loves a resilient beater and can make use of the counter synergy or use the life gain to trigger a Pridemate or something.
Midrange might blink it to stabilize or double up on a sacrifice outlet.
It could be annoying in a control deck against the aggro matchup if you block, get it back and then blink it. You gain 8 life and have 4 bodies for aggro to get through.
Last thing, it tends to signal persist combo which I don’t know if you support or not.
Definitely, absent more efficient ways of repeatedly producing tokens (Young Pyromancer and such).
Imagine a lower powered cube with prowess and goblin typal as red themes. Could this by any chance be good enough?
If you have a goblin lord or Siege-Gang Commander, things get fun quickly!
It is even good in draw go control, I.e, counterburn. So yes, it is quite good in lower powered cubes which are not creature spell centric. It even rewards playing spells before combat, so that’s a fun angle.
I would rather have a Hordeling Outburst I think?
Imagine a lower powered cube with prowess and goblin typal as red themes. Could this by any chance be good enough?
I've played with it a bit, and my main takeaway was that it was pretty forgettable. The power level was fine, it's just that "tax myself to make a 1/1" doesn't feel super exciting so "the enchantment that taxes me to make goblins" was never that high on my list of things to remember.
sings to me as the prowess/goblin overlap card. If only it cost 
...
sings to me as the prowess/goblin overlap card. If only it cost ...
For prowess/gobbos I would probably want Goblin Surprise and You See a Pair of Goblins before Goblinslide. In a low CMC deck of cantrips I could see Goblinslide doing work though.
I've played with it a bit, and my main takeaway was that it was pretty forgettable. The power level was fine, it's just that "tax myself to make a 1/1" doesn't feel super exciting so "the enchantment that taxes me to make goblins" was never that high on my list of things to remember.
Good suggestion with Wizardy! Instant speed is big game
Goblin Slide is not my cup of tea, and I agree with @LadyMapi that it’s very forgettable. 3 mana that doesn’t impact the board, you pay for each trigger, and then you only get a 1/1…nothing about that sparks joy for me.