Please note that Roopey and CAngel were working on this deck simultaneously. I have merged their threads and the first two posts contain worthwhile introductions to the deck.
Peter_Rotten
Well despite the fact that I said that AEther Vial sucks in the Goblin Sligh thread, I went around to test it out. I found out one thing, the deck is actually good. I guess this proves the fact that you shouldn't bash something until you test it, right? So I have done some testing with the deck, nothing to extensive, but the deck definatly show much promise. So here goes.
Vial Goblins
Lands:
14x Mountain
4x Wasteland
4x Rishadan Port
Creatures:
4x Goblin Lackey
4x Goblin Wachief
4x Goblin Ringleader
4x Goblin Piledriver
4x Goblin Matron
4x Gempalm Incinerator
4x Mogg Fanatic
3x Seige-Gang Commander
2x Goblin Pyromancer
1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
Vials:
4x Aether Vials
Sideboard:
3x Price of Progress
1x Goblin Sharpshooter
1x Goblin Tinkerer
2x Patron of the Akki
4x Pithing Needle
4x Pyrokensesis
Well, there you have it folks. I know. I know. It looks exactly like the Extended decks. Thats because it is exactly like the Extended decks, plus Lackeys of course. The deck is built upon the card advantage given to you by Goblin Matron and Goblin Ringleader and mad beats from Goblin Warchief and Goblin Piledriver, all to lead up to the big turn where Skirk Prospector and Goblin Sharpshooter goes nuts on your opponent. This is all by using Lackey and AEther Vial as ways to pump out creature after creature.
The card choices seem to be pretty obvious, we've all seen goblin decks before, this one is no different.
Match-ups
Solidarity: 4-6 This probably wasn't a good choice to go first, but this is the only matchu-up that I have tested extensively. Against this deck you want to matron out Warchiefs and Piledrivers and go nuts. A first turn Lackey second turn Warchief almost always wins the game. If you are worried about this match-up a lot you can run an 8 blast board cutting Swords.(I was actually thinking about doing that anyways BTW.)
I don't know the numbers for any of the other match-ups, but i will tell how to play against it.
ATS: Well against ATS your going to want to outrace them while gaining card advantage at the same time. So Matron will almost always get a Sharpshooter first. Then it will get Ringleader after Ringleader. There will be times when you want to get Ringleader instead, just so you can get the engine going, but garanteed Sharpshooter is amazing against this deck.
RG Survival Advantage: In the few games played against the deck it seemed kind of like a 50/50 match-up. I think this was only because of the splash of black for OVersold Cemetary in the RGSA deck which made every turn Baloth more plausible. Against the normal RGSA though I think it would be around 6-4 in Vial Goblin's favor.
Landstill: This is the deck that I fear. All of the creature hate plus Humility from the board makes this matchup a difficult one to win, but not impossible. You can easily just overcome them with threats, and if the first turn Vial resolves you should be in good condition.
Angel Stompy: I haven't had the time to test this considering no one in VA plays the deck because its bad.
Well I think thats it, I will definatly report back when more testing is done, but I wanted to get the deck out there to see if anyone could help bring it along. So please discuss!
Roop