Eelstrum, Goblin Bard / 1BR
Legendary Creature - Goblin Rogue
When ~ enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.
Whenever a player draws a card, that player exiles the top card of their library. You may play cards exiled this way by sacrificing a Goblin as an additional cost, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast that spell.
"Great show. Terrible fans."
2/3
Eelstrum was designed as an engine that provided a good amount of tension between Goblin generation and nabbing spells. He's still fairly fragile and weak against sweepers, and he needs to be in play for some time to really go off with many sets of options.
As an extra added value, he makes for a very interesting addition to Legacy formats, as he hoses Brainstorm effects.
Goblin Innkeepers / BR
Creature - Goblin
Flash
Whenever ~ or another nontoken Goblin enters the battlefield under your control, each player exiles four cards from their graveyard. If you exiled the most creature cards this way, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.
Today's boarder may be tomorrow's order.
2/2
Innkeepers are a tribal solution to graveyard hate while also providing a good post-sweeper play that can help you rebuild. As niche as it looks, it can be extremely versatile, having uses against all decks in the Modern format save for, like, Tron.
Both cards seem very well thought-out and designed imo. Eelstrum's effect seems super powerful at first glance but probably isn't even close to busted in practice. Goblin Innkeepers seems solid just for being a 2/2 with flash in those colors, but the additional etb effect seems like a decent solution against gy decks.
My gut says maybe Eelstrum should only exile your opponents cards, because there may be some degenerate combo, but I'm not sure.
I like these a lot. I love how this escapes typical Goblin AND Red Black commander themes, but does something that actually fits into those colors and actually seems playable.
Legendary Creature - Goblin Rogue
When ~ enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.
Whenever a player draws a card, that player exiles the top card of their library. You may play cards exiled this way by sacrificing a Goblin as an additional cost, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast that spell.
"Great show. Terrible fans."
2/3
Eelstrum was designed as an engine that provided a good amount of tension between Goblin generation and nabbing spells. He's still fairly fragile and weak against sweepers, and he needs to be in play for some time to really go off with many sets of options.
As an extra added value, he makes for a very interesting addition to Legacy formats, as he hoses Brainstorm effects.
Creature - Goblin
Flash
Whenever ~ or another nontoken Goblin enters the battlefield under your control, each player exiles four cards from their graveyard. If you exiled the most creature cards this way, create a 1/1 red Goblin creature token.
Today's boarder may be tomorrow's order.
2/2
Innkeepers are a tribal solution to graveyard hate while also providing a good post-sweeper play that can help you rebuild. As niche as it looks, it can be extremely versatile, having uses against all decks in the Modern format save for, like, Tron.
My gut says maybe Eelstrum should only exile your opponents cards, because there may be some degenerate combo, but I'm not sure.
10/10 would run this as a General.
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