Modern 8 Whack (Goblins) (Modern)

Budget Magic: $66 (21 tix) Modern 8 Whack (Goblins)
by SaffronOlive // Mar 01, 2016

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/budget-magic-66-21-tix-modern-8-whack-goblins

Niltze Budget Magic lovers! It's that time again. After a string of Standard Budget Magics to celebrate the release of Oath of the Gatewatch, this week we are finally headed back to Modern. And for good reason — our deck is insane! Remember a few weeks ago when we played Modern Burn and I decided that, if your only goal was to win events on a budget you probably should play Burn. Well this week's deck, 8 Whack, is on the same level, and it gets bonus points for not being Burn.

One of the best under-the-radar cards printed in Oath of the Gatewatch is Reckless Bushwhacker. While it might not be game breaking on its own, along with Goblin Bushwhacker, it gives Modern decks redundancy with the "pump your team and give them haste" effect. With eight "Whacks" instead of four, we'll assuredly have one when we want one, and our odds of drawing multiples goes up significantly.

We are basically a very low-to-the-ground build of Mono-Red Goblins, playing "eight Whacks" — four Reckless Bushwhacker and four Goblin Bushwhacker. Plus the name, a play on 8 Rack, cracks me up so much that I might have played the deck even if it was horrible. Thankfully it isn't.

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