Lands:
5 Mountain
6 Island
4 Lonely Sandbar
3 Izzet Boilerworks
2 Terramorphic Expanse
Creatures:
4 Skirk Prospector
Other Spells:
4 Goblin War Strike
4 Brightstone Ritual
4 Ponder
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Rite of Flame
4 Distant Melody
4 Peer Through Depths
4 Seething Song
4 Empty the Warrens
Sideboard:
4 Hurly-Burly
4 Smash
3 Goblin Sledder
4 Early Frost |
  Goblin
Ritual.
Description of deck by
ChronicHeaves
(quoted):
I was able to get a look at the deck in
action, losing to it in an elimination match Round 4. The deck plays
differently then any other storm deck we've seen before, with a large
number of cards for use specifically AFTER you cast the first Empty the
Warrens. The set up is ultimately the same as most storm decks, with
library manipulation (Ponder, Peer Through Depths), and mana
acceleration (Rite of Flame, Seething Song). Then we get to the
post-Warrens package of Distant Melody, Brightstone Ritual, Skirk
Prospector, and Goblin War Strike. These actually allow you to use the
Empty the Warrens tokens as an engine to continue comboing off, ending
with one or two of the aforementioned Goblin War Strikes, killing your
opponent right away. This solves some of the problems with previous
storm decks, chiefly the turn the opponent gets with your goblin army
sitting targets for echoing spells, hurly-burly, martyr of ashes, and a
host of other sweepers. Although you can't argue with success, I'm
hesitant to crown the deck as The Next Big Thing. Personally, the number
of cards that are completely dead until you cast an Empty the Warrens
worries me. With combo decks already being prone to mulligans, I'm not
sure the ability to kill the same turn it goes off is important enough
to outweigh it's increased odds of unkeepable starting hands, and bad
topdecks. Time and testing will surely prove one way or another.
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