In my opinion, your idea of competitive might be a little skewed. While I too love the work that Jay has put into Don Krenko there's still so much that can be done. For example, I see one mana rock which isn't a 0-drop; that whole cycle could be added to push out dudes sooner. I see no wheel effects what so ever and those are amazing in if not every deck with red then at least all-in ones like this one. I don't see any fetch lands which help to thin a deck, and the life loss is negligible since we should be winning in a couple turns.
Now again, I don't hate the deck what so ever; you'll even see at least one post of mine in this thread. I've even built this deck and it's sitting about 10 feet from me right now just itching for some NZT. I have a good idea of what I want to do with it but project-wise things like work unfortunately take priority.
As for your suggestions, you may be misguided on some of them. As a rule of thumb you want to lower the average converted mana cost of your cards to improve your deck, not increase it, so something like Thermopod over the altar is not that great. Likewise, Drillmaster is much worse than Hammer because it takes a turn before you can use it and is subject to more common removal found in EDH. We also need to protect our important assets, like all of our solid goblins, so any way we can protect them is great. Need for Speed could actually be good because you only need to give Krenko haste once because after that that we should be winning or have won.
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Hey Jay, at some point I'm going to take the time to spike the ***** out of this deck. I'm sure it could benefit from some fast mana and other annoyingly-expensive cards that will allow it to combo off around turns 2-3 while under a Blood Moon effect. Once I have a list I'll post it.
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If I may weigh in, it depends on your playgroup. It still kills when Purph out and with Splinter Twin by itself. But if, say, your combat step is being infringed upon by repeated Stonehorn Dignitary triggers or some kind of Ghostly Prison effect then you can't kill that person. Celebrant does untap Krenko though regardless.
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I wouldn't say it's better, but it's also good. It should definitely find a spot in the deck somewhere.
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That's fair. I wasn't sure if it was necessarily necessary since the deck is single color. I don't think there's a 'future/proposed wants' section but for decks I usually like to start with infinite money and work backwards, which is why I'll often ask people whose decks I'm interested in, "If you could make this with infinite money, what would you do to it?"
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Do you care to include fetch lands to thin the deck a bit as well as shuffle?
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Now again, I don't hate the deck what so ever; you'll even see at least one post of mine in this thread. I've even built this deck and it's sitting about 10 feet from me right now just itching for some NZT. I have a good idea of what I want to do with it but project-wise things like work unfortunately take priority.
As for your suggestions, you may be misguided on some of them. As a rule of thumb you want to lower the average converted mana cost of your cards to improve your deck, not increase it, so something like Thermopod over the altar is not that great. Likewise, Drillmaster is much worse than Hammer because it takes a turn before you can use it and is subject to more common removal found in EDH. We also need to protect our important assets, like all of our solid goblins, so any way we can protect them is great. Need for Speed could actually be good because you only need to give Krenko haste once because after that that we should be winning or have won.
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