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Price
€492.68of €500.00
Overall win rate
25%52 wins in 212 scored games
Games
260 (48)played in 26 tournaments, 48 not scored (time limit)
Rank
28in the rankings up to €500 · Elo 1525 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 35 lands, 28 of them basic
Game Changer
2of at most 3 allowed
Combos
3complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

AI note: the Forge AI can't play 4 cards of this deck (replaced with similar cards in the Forge games) and plays 12 more only partially well. This result is therefore somewhat less meaningful. Affected cards

At most €500 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Instants (6)

Sorceries (10)

Artifacts (15)

Enchantments (4)

Lands (35)

Krenko, Mob Boss
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (3)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Krenko, Mob Boss + … → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature tokens
    27 versions, each with one of: Thornbite Staff · Skirk Prospector · Phyrexian Altar · Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker · Ashnod's Altar · Sword of the Paruns and 10 more
  • Howlsquad Heavy + … → Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control, Infinite lifegain triggers
    3 versions, each with one of: Staff of Domination · Umbral Mantle · Sword of the Paruns
  • Skirk Prospector + Pashalik Mons + Mana Echoes → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite damage

Commander Spellbook lists 31 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

Show all 31 entries
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Skirk Prospector + Goblin Warchief → Infinite commander casts, Infinite creature tokens with haste, Infinite death triggers
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Skirk Prospector + Goblin Chieftain → Infinite commander casts, Infinite creature tokens with haste, Infinite death triggers
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Skirk Prospector + Howlsquad Heavy → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Skirk Prospector + Thousand-Year Elixir → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Thornbite Staff + Skirk Prospector → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite damage, Infinite red mana
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Thornbite Staff + Goblin Bombardment → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite damage, Infinite death triggers
  • Skirk Prospector + Krenko, Mob Boss + Staff of Domination → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Thornbite Staff + Goblin Trashmaster → Destroy all artifacts that enter the battlefield under an opponent's control, Destroy all artifacts opponents control, Infinite creature tokens
  • Skirk Prospector + Krenko, Mob Boss + Umbral Mantle → Infinite creature tokens, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Thornbite Staff + Goblin Bombardment → Infinite damage, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Thornbite Staff + Skirk Prospector → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Skirk Prospector + Pashalik Mons + Mana Echoes → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite damage
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Thornbite Staff + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite death triggers
  • Staff of Domination + Howlsquad Heavy → Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifegain, Infinite red mana
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Ashnod's Altar + Staff of Domination → Infinite card draw, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Phyrexian Altar + Goblin Warchief → Infinite colored mana, Infinite commander casts, Infinite creature tokens with haste
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Phyrexian Altar + Goblin Chieftain → Infinite colored mana, Infinite commander casts, Infinite creature tokens with haste
  • Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Thornbite Staff + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Thornbite Staff + Goblin Sharpshooter → Infinite damage, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Umbral Mantle + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite death triggers
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Thornbite Staff + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite death triggers
  • Umbral Mantle + Howlsquad Heavy → Infinite red mana, Infinitely large creature until end of turn, Infinite untap of creatures you control
  • Skirk Prospector + Krenko, Mob Boss + Sword of the Paruns → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Thornbite Staff + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Staff of Domination + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite card draw, Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature tokens
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Umbral Mantle + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite death triggers
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Phyrexian Altar + Howlsquad Heavy → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite colored mana
  • Sword of the Paruns + Howlsquad Heavy → Infinite red mana, Infinite untap of creatures you control, Infinite mana creatures you control can produce
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Ashnod's Altar + Sword of the Paruns → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite death triggers
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Sword of the Paruns + Mana Echoes → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature tokens
  • Krenko, Mob Boss + Phyrexian Altar + Sword of the Paruns → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite colored mana

Adjusted for the Forge AI

The list above is the best tested version, the way you would play it in real games. The Forge AI can't play a few cards – they were replaced in the tournament (the deck builder also rearranges other slots within the budget). The win rate comes from games with these replacements; the original cards themselves were not tested by the AI.

In the list (original cards)
  • Faithless Looting: AI can't play it
  • Goblin Bombardment: AI can't play it
  • Goblin Recruiter: AI can't play it
  • Lotus Petal: AI plays it poorly
  • Mana Echoes: AI plays it poorly
  • Sword of the Paruns: AI can't play it
Played instead in the tournament
  • Battle Cry Goblin: replacement
  • Imperial Recruiter: replacement
  • Impulsive Pilferer: replacement
  • Lightning Crafter: replacement
  • Sting, the Glinting Dagger: replacement
  • Wheel of Fortune: replacement

What the games show

From 212 analysed games in 26 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: mixed – 49% combat damage, the rest direct damage

Strengths

  • Wins fast: wins on average already on its 10th own turn (all-deck avg: 11th) logged (52 wins)
  • Applies a lot of pressure: avg 37 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 29) logged (212 games)
  • Stable mana: fewer than 3 lands after turn 3 in only 4% of games (all-deck avg: 10%) logged (9 of 212 games)

Weaknesses

  • Often eliminated first: in 37% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (79 of 212 games)
  • Depends on its commander: only 0% wins without it, 26% with it indication (12 games without, 200 with commander)
  • Drops out early: in losses on average already on its 9th own turn (all-deck avg: 10th) logged (160 losses)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 212 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Purphoros, God of the Forge avg 11.7hit in 52 of 212 games
  2. Goblin Token avg 6.1hit in 89 of 212 games
  3. Impact Tremors avg 3.6hit in 19 of 212 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Purphoros, God of the Forge avg 47.8hit in 52 of 212 games
  2. Impact Tremors avg 40.5hit in 19 of 212 games
  3. General Kreat, the Boltbringer avg 33.6hit in 22 of 212 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Goblin Token 55×212 games in deck
  2. Purphoros, God of the Forge 40×212 games in deck
  3. General Kreat, the Boltbringer 10×212 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Goblin Trashmaster 61×avg 0.3 per game · 212 games in deck
  2. Vandalblast 28×avg 0.1 per game · 212 games in deck
  3. Abrade 21×avg 0.1 per game · 204 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 16% of 2888 attackers blocked in total, 11% of those by flyers or reach

  1. Goblin Token 16×blocked in 4 games
  2. Soldier Token 13×blocked in 5 games
  3. Elf Warrior Token 9×blocked in 4 games

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Pyroblast 0%cast in 0 of 204 games
  2. Goblin War Strike 6%cast in 13 of 212 games
  3. Thousand-Year Elixir 7%cast in 14 of 212 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 52 wins came

  • by turn 710%
  • turns 8–937%
  • turns 10–1131%
  • turns 12–1317%
  • turn 14+6%

Combos in play logged Krenko, Mob Boss + Skirk Prospector + Goblin Warchief: all pieces cast in 6 games, 2 won · Krenko, Mob Boss + Skirk Prospector + Goblin Chieftain: all pieces cast in 2 games, 0 won · Krenko, Mob Boss + Skirk Prospector + Howlsquad Heavy: all pieces cast in 10 games, 4 won · Krenko, Mob Boss + Skirk Prospector + Thousand-Year Elixir: all pieces cast in 3 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.53

1
0
14
1
17
2
23
3
5
4
2
5
1
6
1
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
6 / 6
Card draw
7 / 7
Removal
7 / 7
Board wipe
2 / 2
Protection
2 / 2
Strategy
40 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 64 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
29
Instants
6
Sorceries
10
Artifacts
15
Enchantments
4
Lands
35

Most expensive cards

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
€38.30
Phyrexian Altar
€35.94
Cavern of Souls
€33.95
Jeska's Will
€31.27
Mana Echoes
€28.45
Lotus Petal
€25.96
Purphoros, God of the Forge
€22.01
Hexing Squelcher
€21.55

What the program has learned

Each tournament the deck tests one card. A verdict needs at least 40 games with and without the card. Since the deck is rebuilt every tournament with current prices and data, tested cards can drop out again later.

No swap has enough games for a verdict yet.

11 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

Copy the list, create a new list under “Wants” on Cardmarket and paste it.

Total €492.68 Cardmarket average as of Oct 27, 2026

Open Cardmarket Wants

Prices without shipping. Individual cards may have become cheaper or more expensive on Cardmarket.

Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 7 · average place 30.7 · 0× top 3 · 4× top 10 out of 26 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?