SaiDes: I would love to bring these decks into the most competetive formats I can, for the sake of this series. My main issues with these is scheduling. I will look into heading into more Dailies/PRE’s where possible. My issues are that I have children to get to sleep every night, and this severely limits the events I can enter with realistic hopes to be “present” for. I do try to look around for those events that I can fit inot the schedule, but they are more difficult to time than you might imagine

However if you plan to make notes ect right after games you can catch the replay on the “completed games” in the tourney pratice room it might take a little searching but if you’re quick you’ll be able to catch them even if the server didnt save the game to you “recently played” games list. I hope that helps.

2) Honestly, the board here is taken from decklists of winning goblins decks (mostly, I had to fudge a few cards for lack of owning them, like the 2 pyroblasts). I do think the Gorilla Shaman’s are warranted, but agree about the anti aggro stuff. I will certainly look into adjusting it as I move forward.

3) The thunderbolt was there, again, due to a lack of a fourth chain lightning, and the fact that I love Thunderbolt. I will try to tighten up these lists in the future so they are as close to perfect as possible, with no cards missing due to my own collection. i can and will be buying the needed cards. Again, this month was a bit nuts.

I appreciate the concerns wrt the replays, but feel that in most cases my notes (made after matches), my screencaps, and my replays when available, will be plenty to reconstruct game-states for discussion. I do appreciate everyone’s comments as to how to best handle this, so feel free to comment if you have an idea.

#1) ALWAYS play matches when in the tournament room as it is sideboards that make the primary difference between a casual deck/game and a tourney one.

#2) Your sideboard looks to be completely geared toward anti aggro (affinity maybe?)
Perhaps you could explain the card choices in it to us?
Personally i’d change it to look like

4 Pyroblast (good vs storm AND MuC)
4 Raze (yes you sacrifice a land for this but this can be beating vs both storm decks)
4 Seismic Shudder
3 Flaring Pain ( This is for against any deck with pro red effects such as WW or Slivers)

The reason i suggest these changes are because goblins is one of the best aggro decks in the format usually you can just keep the pressure up and win most races so I see little reason to have your sideboard slow that plan down just to slow your opponent down at the same time?

Now Storm is your main bogey man here ans that’s what I have chose to focus on.
Nailing a rav bounce land or sac land can at times set the storm decks back a turn or two giving you enough time to get those last points of damage in. In some cases it just flat shuts them down if you’re lucky.

Thunderbolt used to be a red deck staple so its fine but as others have mentioned it would not be a first choice nowdays personally since MuC is not as common as it once was.

Lastly the reason that not all the games are recorded is because for some reason when either your or your opponent concede a game MTGO has a high chance of just not recording it.

Goblins have the suberb advantage of being bigger for the same cost, in general, as well as having synergies that make blocking really a nightmare for the opponent. Give it a go, and let us know what you think back here if you get a chance.