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this gobbo friend greatly resembles a raccoon

As tragically romantic as the idea of being paired with the moon is, sadly the Silverblade Paladin will move on once its partner is no longer a creature.

When a paired creature stops being a creature, its pair breaks and its partner is free to form a new soulbond with someone else.

LET THE GOBLIN HUGGING BEGIN!!

@askkrenko

A few years ago, I worked on designing a Red-skewed set. Basically the Red version of Torment, where every color in the set bent towards Red. In this world, I made the Goblins artifact-based, and used the fan-favorite “Assembling Contraptions” mechanic from the one card in Future Sight as my starting point. I think some of my designs might apply to your guild idea and thought you might like to see them for reference, and you’re free to use or tweak any that you like.

First, the Goblins. In my set, the Contraptions work almost like Energy, where many sources create them, and many use them and that works together. The difference from Energy is that these work with any artifacts at all, so it’s less parasitic, but also more likely to be broken in a way I don’t realize. The Mine-Layer is a literally Siege-Gang Commander with artifact twist. I know your set uses 1/1 artifact creatures, so my creatures would need to be rebalanced, but I thought you might like to consider some version of them.

Next, my plane used Scarecrows as the things the goblins invented to serve a singular purpose, and when that purpose couldn’t be met or had been fulfilled already, they would toss them and have a pile of scrap left (which could be used one last time). I also liked the idea of goblins creating crude vehicles, but that theme wasn’t particularly fleshed out.

Finally, while probably not balanced, Tinkerer’s Scrapheap is the strong Red land that never happened, while the other colors got Serra’s Sanctum, Tolarian Academy, Cabal Coffers, and Gaea’s Cradle. Based on Crypt of Agadeem, but I think the fact that so many exile-the-graveyard effects exist means it isn’t too crazy powerful, but what do I know? Also I don’t have the colorless mana symbol on my version of MSE, sorry.

White God, Blue God, Black God, Red God and Green God.

Yes.

When you cast a spell, you apply all cost reduction and cost increase effects and set the final mana cost before you can activate mana abilities to pay for the spell.

In this case specifically, Goblin Warchief reduces the cost of Siege-Gang Commander to 2RR, and then you can sacrifice both Goblin Warchief and Skirk Prospector for mana before you pay SGC’s costs.