Goblin Engineer in All the New Modern Stuff
Goblin Engineer
Creature – Goblin
When Goblin Engineer enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card, put it in your graveyard, then shuffle your library.
{R}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Return target artifact card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
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Goblin Engineer in Grixis Urza
… Mike initially thought (from the deck title) that this was a newfangled color combination for the classic Modern UrzaTron shell… Turns out it’s an all-new infinite combo deck!
The “Grixis” part just refers to some black mana to activate Nihil Spellbomb or hard-cast your Leyline of the Void after sideboarding.
Here, Goblin Engineer does a Stoneforge Mystic Impression, when you… Get your Sword of the Meek!
In fact, Goblin Engineer puts the Sword right where you want it… In the graveyard! If you naturally draw a Thopter Foundry you have a soft lock already.
Adding Urza, Lord High Artificer to an Already Established Combination…
… Makes it “boundless” according to Patrick.
Thopter Foundry and Sword of the Meek can already make lots of tokens and life points based on how many times you can produce one mana. Urza’s ability to turn every incoming 1/1 token into a blue-producing Llanowar Elves means you can make… lots.
This is to say nothing of the Construct that comes in and gets buffed for all the artifacts you have.
Not only are there multiple different flavors of Urza, Lord High Artificer decks emerging in Modern… There are distinct new Goblin Engineer ones, too!
Example: Goblin Engineer in Rakdos Prison
What if you use your Goblin Engineer to get essentially just Ensnaring Bridge and Nihil Spellbomb.
Did you notice that Nihil Spellbomb can pay you back for being sacrificed to Goblin Engineer if you have a spare black mana? Mondo combo or what?
Combine with Karn, the Great Creator and you have an all-new Modern deck!
Don’t look now, but Karn might just search up a Snare Thopter. Yes, that Snare Thopter. Not quite a Slash Panther; or kind of a Bloodbraid Elf without the Cascade, Snare Thopter is… Certainly a creature you could potentially get with your Karn.
There are so many things going in on Modern due to War of the Spark and Modern Horizons we couldn’t really write about all of them here… But we probably talked about most of them. Was all that Hogaak worry overblown? Is Izzet Phoenix still a top contender? Is Mike’s beloved Burn still viable at all?
Find out in this week’s podcast: