The Great Goblin rewards a counter-placement strategy by dealing 2 damage to an opponent each time counters are placed on a Goblin, Orc, or Army, making effects that pile multiple counter types or repeatedly distribute counters a source of significant chip damage. The deck also leverages the death of its tribal creatures to generate card advantage by exiling and playing the top card of the library, encouraging a go-wide aggressive gameplan where goblins trade in combat or are sacrificed for value. Together, these triggers push the deck toward a fast, attrition-based strategy that wins through accumulated damage from counter triggers while replacing losses through death-fueled impulse draw.

The Great Goblin decklist

• Snowslope Hunter
• Stony-Voiced Goblins
• Bolg of the North
• Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
• Troop of Ponies
• Courageous Goblin
• Fanatical Firebrand
• Goblin Boarders
• Misty Mountains Raider
• Goblin-town Flunkies
• Bothersome Noisemaker
• Gollum, Silent Slinker // Meager Meal
• Gollum the Abandoned
• Gundabad Opportunist
• Stir Up Trouble
• Reverent Howl
• Gathering of Darkness
• Inside Information
• Rage into the Valley
• Down, Down to Goblin-town
• Tidings of War
• Goblin Surprise
• Goblin Negotiation
• Ragged Short Spear
• My Precious // Allure of Power
• Crude Bent Blade
• Goblin Plate Mail
• Thrór's Map
• Well-Worn Spatula