(Budget-)Decktalk „Goblin Festival“

Well, here’s a mono red favorite of ours for a kick start into the deck talk section of this blog.

Yeah you got it right, it’s a super fast mono red, aggro Goblin festival, where 12 goblin one drops build the base, to be tuned in turn 2 and 3 with Goblin Grenade, Blood Lust and Goblin King to inflict fast big damage. There’s artillery support from Ball Lightning and 10 burn spells, and… that’s kind of about it. In recent testing the 2 main decked Blood Moon proved to be essential to break a control deck and enable Goblins of the Flarg to sneak through Mountain walk – but let’s be frank here:  you should be done with your opponent in 4 or 5 turns. Once an adversary will steady himself with some control features or blow a disk in turn 4 or 5 you can be pretty sure to be dead meat in the long term, unless you draw your Wheel of Fortune.

To sum it up: This deck is fun and it is fast, but surely it is very linear and has next to zero turnaround capacity. With all that fast damage and burn to finish you will have quite good odds though. And hey: this is a budget deck that is perfect for a primer into the world of old school magic.

German Old School Calendar

Upcoming Old School Tournaments and Gatherings

In this section we publish all German Old School events that we know of. Please provide your local event information and we happily publish it here.

1st Miracle Worker Cup

Saturday, June 16, at 4 PM, find all relevant info here

Old School Meetup – Playtesting

Wednesday (every week!)
from 6 PM
in JK-Store
Eschersheimer Landstr 267
60320 Frankfurt/Main
Germany

Old School Trial for Eternel Weekend Europe

Wednesday, April 25th 2018
5 €
at 6 PM
in JK-Store
Eschersheimer Landstr 267
60320 Frankfurt/Main
Germany

MKM Series Hamburg

Sunday, May 20th 2018

Eternal Saturday

Saturday, May 26th 2018
in JK Event Store
Gwinnerstr 36
60388 Frankfurt/Main
Germany

Old School Tournaments at JK Series Summer

Friday, June 1st 2018, at 6 PM
Sunday, June 3rd 2018, at 3 PM
in Bürgerhaus Bischofsheim
Dörnigheimer Weg 21
63477 Maintal (Germany)

 

Welcome to Old School Arena

We are a MTG think tank and community building network for Germany that focuses on 93/94 or Old School Magic the Gathering.

Old School Magic is a MTG format that allows players to use only cards that were originally printed in 1993 and 1994 – so most of the cards played are real charming old timers and sometimes quite valuable, but the main reason for a growing Old School community is the nostalgia and fun.

For an intro into the world of Old School MTG please read our Rules blog post where we define the format (and the myriad of variations).

The Events blog posts give an overview and regular update on the local play groups in Germany, and all interesting upcoming Old School tournaments in Europe.

Our blog posts tagged Decktalk are a magic treasure vault of deck lists and inspiration.

Have fun and enjoy the spiritual sanctuary of Old School Arena!