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Legendary Creature — Goblin Samurai
{R}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn. {3}{R}{R}: Create a 5/5 red Dragon Spirit creature token with flying. Activate only if you control an attacking modified creature. (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.)
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“Equip creatures, attack, make Dragon tokens repeatedly.”
Goro-Goro wants to turn your creatures into modified threats—think equipment, Auras, or +1/+1 counters—then leverage that modified status to create 5/5 Dragon tokens. The deck focuses on early creature drops paired with cheap equipment like Embercleave or Grafted Wargear, turning ordinary creatures into combat threats while setting up your Dragon engine. Once you're attacking with modified creatures, you're churning out flying tokens every turn, which snowballs into an overwhelming board. The haste ability on Goro-Goro itself is the cherry on top, letting you surprise attack or enable instant-speed token generation.
You'll win through a combination of combat damage from your growing army of tokens and modified creatures. The deck is forgiving enough for newer players but rewards good equipment selection and timing decisions. Games tend to accelerate naturally since you're playing efficient creatures and equipment early, then transitioning into token production by turn 4–5.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Substitute Embercleave with cheaper options like Scrapyard Recombiner or Nim Deathmantle; use signets and talismans instead of expensive mana rocks.
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