Down, Down to Goblin-town
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Three-mana Saga: targeted discard, then amass 1, then two turns of drain. A grindy value package for attrition-oriented BR decks — never flashy, always a two-or-three-for-one.
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Gameplay notes
Chapter I taking their best card before combat matters most in topdeck wars. The amass and drains add reach in racing situations.
Key synergies
Chapter II puts a counter on a Goblin Army, triggering The Great Goblin for 2 damage; if that Army later dies, The Great Goblin also provides an exiled card to play.
Rhovanion Rampager can sacrifice the Army made or grown by chapter II to gain counters equal to its power; when the Rampager later dies, those counters increase the size of the replacement Goblin Army it amasses.
Down, Down to Goblin-town creates or grows a creature with a +1/+1 counter, which Great Ugly-Looking Goblin gives menace; Clap! Snap! can then add two more counters to the same Army.
Casting the Saga triggers Bothersome Noisemaker to amass 1, and chapter II amasses again on the following turn, quickly building a larger Goblin Army.
The Saga supplies a Goblin Army that Bolg can sacrifice, turning its accumulated power into removal and potentially replacing it with another Army through excess damage.
Chapter II supplies an Army that Azog can destroy under your control, drawing a card and then amassing equal to its power; this effectively rebuilds the Army while converting the original into card advantage.
Chapter II supplies a Goblin Army that Along the Crooked Way can give menace, turning the Saga's incremental body into a much harder-to-block threat.
Chapter II creates a Goblin Army, giving Bolg's Company another Goblin to turn on haste and expendable Goblin fodder it can sacrifice for {B}{R}.
The Goblin Army created by chapter II can pay Stir Up Trouble's sacrifice cost, letting the deck convert the Saga's token into efficient one-mana removal after already gaining the discard effect.
The Saga's Goblin Army provides sacrifice fodder for Snowslope Hunter, converting the chapter II token into access to an additional card when preserving the Army is less valuable.
Both cards amass onto the same Goblin Army, while Goblin Plate Mail automatically equips that Army and grants menace, making the Saga's chapter II counter contribute to an evasive, increasingly large threat.
The Saga's chapter II can provide a creature token for The Sackville-Bagginses to sacrifice, drawing a card and creating a Treasure while also triggering its token-sacrifice life-loss ability.
The chapter III/IV drains cause life loss, which the Master converts into mills toward his seven-card-graveyard payoff.
Casting the Saga triggers Gandalf's noncreature-spell ability, temporarily increasing his power and dealing an additional point of damage while the Saga continues generating value.
The Saga establishes or grows a Goblin Army, and Fearsome Goblin Pair's death then adds four more counters to that same threat, giving the BR amass deck a substantially larger Army after a profitable trade or sacrifice.