Goblin Diplomats

DaLucaray 2013-07-09

★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (21 votes)

AH FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION!

YOUR MOTHER WAS A HAMSTER AND YOUR FATHER SMELT OF ELDERBERRIES

Totema 2013-07-09

★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (4 votes)

You don't frighten us, Elvish pig-dogs!

I can't wait to get this. One of my favorite goblin tactics uses Bloodmark Mentor to give all my gobbies First strike, and then I can overwhelm opposing creatures in combat. This will make them come to me instead, and let me use my next combat for the alpha strike!

Flyheight 2013-07-09

★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0) (5 votes)

I came here to say something but DaLucaray had already posted.

SyntheticDreamer 2013-07-09

★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (13 votes)

I didn't realize there were Goblins in France. In England.

Layk 2013-07-09

★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (3 votes)

This thing's gonna *** some people off lol

Sonserf369 2013-07-09

★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0) (4 votes)

Oh, the flavour! It hurts!

fibonacci112358 2013-07-09

★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (3 votes)

Very powerful repeatable removal in a Gruul deck.

Comparable to Ulvenwald Tracker

Ogonomany 2013-07-09

★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (22 votes)

Some cards are really good. Some cards are really bad.

Some cards have a picture of a goblin sticking its butt out at you.

This is one of those cards.

Avensai 2013-07-09

★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0) (8 votes)

Yay! Yet another often-ignored red ability that sees the light of day! Of all the colors in the pie, red is the one I believe needs to be stretched the most in terms of what it can do. I feel like the only comparable effect in the game is stapled to Fumiko the Lowblood.

sweetgab 2013-07-10

★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (5 votes)

Attack into my Boros Reckoner

It also passes the Burning-Tree Emissary test! Just some thoughts.

Majinkajisan 2013-07-10

★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (8 votes)

I have decoded the message: Butt Face.

Goatllama 2013-07-11

★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0) (5 votes)

They blow their noses at you, silly English keeeeehniggits!

Mr.Freshness-Timmy 2013-07-12

★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0) (2 votes)

dat @SS.

blurrymadness 2013-07-12

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

If nothing else it opens the door for an all-out goblin assault; this is right up red's alley.

In limited? Use this with Awaken the Ancient

Mode 2013-07-13

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

In team matches, this diplomat even helps you persuade your teammates when to fully attack head-on.

rollinsclone 2013-07-13

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

Well this sums up goblins quite nicely.

Purplerooster 2013-07-14

★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0) (8 votes)

Use it on your turn for insurance that you'll remember to attack.

DarthParallax 2013-07-19

★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0) (5 votes)

Pro Tip: Fling a Guardian of the Ages at it. You know you want to.

j_mindfingerpainter 2013-07-19

★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0) (3 votes)

Lol at the people are trying to use this card competitively. To me, this is an all-star in a multiplayer EDH game with Zedruu. Especially with Propaganda and Ghostly Prison

badmalloc 2013-07-20

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

I think this ability is pretty huge for a 2 mana 2/1.

GruesomeGoo 2013-07-25

★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (3 votes)

Never thought I'd see a Magic card that features a Goblin telling me to kiss his ass.
5/5

Redfurn 2013-07-26

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

Useful really only as a final strike. I love it with Krenko Mob Boss, Goblin Wardriver, and Goblin Chieftain. A dozen or so 3/2 unblockable goblins makes me smile.

rice.a91 2013-07-29

★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (1 vote)

Aetherize

SirLibraryEater 2013-08-05

★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0) (3 votes)

{T}: Target player's creatures commit suicide.

Beyond.Malachi 2013-08-10

★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (1 vote)

I like this for multiplayer!

Osprey_93 2013-08-10

★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (1 vote)

@ j_mindfingerpainter

Sorry bud, wouldn't work as your opponent can simply choose not to pay the two or four mana making any creature he chooses unable to attack.

Mephy. 2013-08-13

★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0) (4 votes)

Remembers me of Monty Python's in the Quest for the Holy Grail.

Ferlord 2013-08-14

★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (4 votes)

"Hmm... It looks like we're at a stalemate. You have a bunch of creatures and I have a bunch of creatures. Guess I'll just keep top-decking into solutions..."

"Like HELL you are!"

Shadowcaster3975 2013-08-20

★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (1 vote)

I can't believe there are no comments about slumbering dragon yet.

EvilDarkVoid 2013-08-23

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)

This is either the first or one of the first strictly better than Goblin Piker cards for red (obviously there have been many which are superior, but usually with some manageable drawback), and in a core set no less! Finally, the Piker's reign is over! Maybe they'll even give us a red Grizzly Bears eventually!

...haha no because apparently a drawback-less 2/2 for {R}{1} is horribly overpowered and will never see print.

brockdjwest 2013-08-24

☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

EyeballFrog 2013-08-24

★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (3 votes)

But where are their diplomacy helmets?

Ness64 2013-08-25

★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (1 vote)

Attack taxes may not work, but Lightmine Field sure does.

MizziumSculptor444 2013-10-04

★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (1 vote)

I can only imagine who hired these guys. Even GOBLINS should know better than to have goblins as diplomats.

O0oze 2013-12-20

★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (1 vote)

blood reckoning?
lightmine fields?
slumbering dragon?

this card has some nice combos.

Salient 2014-03-08

★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (1 vote)

You've met Raging Goblin already; this is his rubber-faced brother, Enraging Goblin.

I'd introduce Assuaging Goblin as well, if he would turn around to greet us, but unfortunately it looks like he misunderstood his name to mean "Ass Goblin."

So much for diplomacy. This must be why the goblins don't have any Springleaf Drum

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