I'm Confidant in my Goblins - Competetive (Modern MTG Deck)

Kuldotha Rebirth + Memnite/Mishra's Bauble to go wide early.
Kuldotha Rebirth + Goblin Bushwhacker for a lot of efficiency out of the Bushwhacker's kicker.
Signal Pest + Goblin Bushwhacker kicked the same turn for a board-wide +2/+0 (the pest only gets +1).
The deck's average CMC is a mere .733, so Dark Confidant is incredibly efficient.

A couple other tips:

If you have a Mishra's Bauble in play but you don't have a Kuldotha Rebirth, consider waiting to crack the Bauble if you don't need the extra draw right away. If you play Bauble turn one and already have a strong turn two play in hand, wait one more turn to see if you top-deck a Rebirth.
When you have a Goblin Guide out with a Mishra's Bauble, swing with the Guide before you crack the Bauble. If you put a land in their hand, go ahead and crack the Bauble. If you don't, crack the Bauble at the end of their next draw step so you see two of their cards.
When keeping a hand with 2 or 3 lands, sequence your land drops so that you use your fetches first. In an opening hand with 2 lands, using a fetch-land will increase the odds of drawing a non-land card the next turn by more than a percent.

Sideboard strategies:

When sideboarding against B/W Tokens or Delver, replace 3 Kuldotha Rebirths with 2 Illness in the Ranks and 1 Inquisition of Kozilek/Thoughtseize or 1 Illness in the Ranks, 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, and 1 Sacred Foundry.
Against Zoo, Jund, Dredge, or any other deck running Tarmogoyf, replace 3 [[Mishra's Bauble]s with 2 Deathmark s and 1 Relic of Progenitus. The Relic of Progenitus can even be used to invalidate Snapcaster Mage, but I don't like to remove the core of this deck unless sideboarding is necessary.
Against Splinter Twin, replace a Mishra's Bauble with a Torpor Orb.
Against affinity, replace 3 Mishra's Baubles and a Kuldotha Rebirth with 2 Wear / Tears and 2 Shattering Sprees.
For various combo decks, throw in some combination of Wear / Tear + Sacred Foundry/Inquisition of Kozileks/Thoughtseizes.
Against control and certain combo decks (such as Pyromancer Ascension, throw in 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben and 1 Sacred Foundry in favor of 2 lightning bolts.

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Main-board change — May 8, 2015

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I recently took out 1 Kuldotha Rebirth, 1 Mishra's Bauble, 2 Goblin Chieftans in favor of 4 Dark Confidants.

I decided 4 Kuldotha Rebirths was too many. I would often draw 2 Rebirths when I only had 1 artifact, or open my hand with 1-2 Rebirths and no artifacts. After some play-testing with 3, the chances of getting hosed by a useless Kuldotha Rebirth seem much lower.

With fewer Kuldotha Rebirths in the list, I also found that I didn't need as many artifacts. I still run plenty to help guarantee no Rebirth is dead-in-hand, but 1 less Bauble hasn't hurt me yet in my testing.

It was an easy decision for me to remove the Goblin Chieftans. Sometimes I wouldn't have the land to be able to play one, and I often found they were a "win-more" card. They did occasionally give me lethal on my opponent when the game would have otherwise gone on another turn, but I feel that the fuel generated by Dark Confidant will be more beneficial. (I am considering running 1 Chieftan and 3 Confidants. Thoughts?)

As I mentioned before, the Dark Confidants generate massive fuel for my deck. With my average CMC of .733 (counting lands), Dark Confidant will lose me less life than than Phyrexian Arena, is only 2 CMC, and it has legs! The trade off to running him is tempo for fuel. If i play him, I never run out of cards to play until he is killed, but I never win on turn 3 in the games that involve him. Perhaps 3 will be a better number of Dark Confidants to run?

FNM Outcome 3 - 0 — April 24, 2015

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Goblin Chieftain

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Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	25 - 5 Rares 15 - 9 Uncommons 15 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	1.02
Tokens	Goblin 1/1 R
Folders	Other user's decks
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