Goro-Goro and Satoru, Sengoku Clan

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Post by Cyberium » 1 year ago

Goro-Goro and Satoru

The flavor of this pair just screams Sengoku era to me. Samurai, ninja, and dragon... I can't help but wanting to make a deck with them.

Aside from the obvious ninjutsu synergy, haste creature(ish) like Dragonwing Glider can also trigger it while providing an evasive equipment for others (Tetsuo, Imperial Champion/Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei/Heiko Yamazaki, the General rejoice). The added red provides direct damage like Warstorm Surge which also synergizes with the dragon generation.

I'm very tempted to go full-arcane here also, but let's start with creatures. What do people think about Goro-Goro and Satoru?

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Post by Dragonlover » 1 year ago

First thing that comes to mind is stuff with raid from Khans block, also there might be some decent blitz stuff?

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Post by Cyberium » 1 year ago

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First thing that comes to mind is stuff with raid from Khans block, also there might be some decent blitz stuff?

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Most certainly, and those haste-elementals generate by cards such as Elemental Mastery.

And by the wording, you can create multiple dragons if you manage to damage more than one opponent.


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Post by Dunadain » 1 year ago

Squee, Dubious Monarch, Goblin Rabblemaster, Legion Warboss.

Why run a bunch of creatures that can trigger the commander once when you can run cards that will trigger the commander every turn?
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Post by Cyberium » 1 year ago

The Locust God is also another good choice, providing evasive haste tokens and allows easier ninjas.

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Post by darrenhabib » 1 year ago

Ninjutsu is a great way to get continuous triggers, because you can keep bouncing each other in order to enter the battlefield once again and you don't need to worry about the haste portion.
Cavern Harpy is another good one to keep bouncing creatures back to hand for additional triggers.

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Post by Cyberium » 1 year ago

Goblin Assault is another. All goblins are ninja in disguise.

If we get multiple combats going as with Aggravated Assault/Hexplate Wallbreaker, even the recently created dragon tokens could attack again, therefore generate more dragons. Savage Beating allows the ability to trigger twice per combat.

If we have additional modify theme in the deck, Valduk, Keeper of the Flame with an Elemental Mastery is one way to provide lots of tokens all at once.

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Post by 3drinks » 1 year ago

Cyberium wrote:
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Goblin Assault is another. All goblins are ninja in disguise.

If we get multiple combats going as with Aggravated Assault/Hexplate Wallbreaker, even the recently created dragon tokens could attack again, therefore generate more dragons. Savage Beating allows the ability to trigger twice per combat.

If we have additional modify theme in the deck, Valduk, Keeper of the Flame with an Elemental Mastery is one way to provide lots of tokens all at once.
Man Hexplate Wallbreaker is such a goofy looking card. And for $2, a four equip AggAss is pretty reasonable.

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Post by Treamayne » 1 year ago

You could also consider the Sneak Attack route to lower the cost of the initial attacker that will be bounced by the ninja. Sneak attack an ETB trigger value and/or evasive critter, Ninja swap on the attack. Repeat as necessary.

For going wide, you could also consider leveraging Reflections of Littjara/Mirror March/Flameshadow Conjuring and use the tokens as the bounce targets (or just to trigger the General's attack trigger themselves if they get through).

Consider also Dolmen Gate, since your trigger will incentivize heavy blocking - you want to survive the blocks.
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All goblins are ninja in disguise.
Sounds like a Dresden Files quote (Changes, Ch 35)
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Susan whispered. "What are those things?"
"I . . ." I swallowed. "I think they're goblins."
"You think?"
"I've never seen one before," I replied. "But . . . they match the descriptions I've heard."
"Shouldn't we be able to handle, like, a million of them?"
I snorted. "You liked those movies, too, huh?"
Her reply was a smile, one touched with sadness.
"Yeah," I said. "I was thinking of you when I saw them, too." I shook my head. "And no. This is a case of folklore getting it wrong. These guys are killers. They're sneaky and they're smart and they're ruthless. Like ninjas. From Krypton. Look what they did."
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Post by Ertai Planeswalker » 1 year ago

They will also be good with Myriad, given that this gives a hasty attacker for each opponent.

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Post by Cyberium » 1 year ago

Ertai Planeswalker wrote:
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They will also be good with Myriad, given that this gives a hasty attacker for each opponent.
Which also makes Helm of the Host a funny include here. I'm very much decided to go for an equipment-control route, taking ideas/cards from the Rebel precon.

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