Theme Deck Review Compendium: Visions “Wild-Eyed Frenzy”

Wild-Eyed Frenzy

A mono red goblin theme deck.

Official Product Information page (Archived)

The “Wild-Eyed Frenzy” deck does one thing: Attack. Or, rather, ATAAAAAAACK!!!!! It’s designed to send in a wave of screaming, ravenous Goblins at the beginning of the game, then follow that up with a wave of lumbering Minotaurs and other marauders. Toss in some burn and a few potentially ridiculous power-boosting spells, and you might have a deliciously short game on your hands.

Screenshot of decklist from Wizards.com

Interactive deck list with card images from be found on mtg.wtf here.

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Reviews

Cubic Creativity

Budget Deckbuilding: Wild-Eyed Frenzy

Now, let us start with what makes “Wild-Eyed Frenzy” a surprisingly solid deck. There are two cards that I feel can make for a solid strategy here: “Mob Mentality” and “Song of Blood“. “Mob Mentality” combines potentially massive stat-gain with the one thing that is normally missing from cards giving such bonuses in form of Trample. “Song of Blood” is not just self-mill but actually graveyard setup with added stat bonuses on top. And “Wild-Eyed Frenzy” caters to both effects beautifully: “Goblin Recruiter” is not only a very potent searcher for Goblins but also one way to get the maximum +4/+0 for your entire board when activating “Song of Blood“.

Ertai’s Lament

Visions: Wild-Eyed Frenzy Review (Part 1 of 2)

All in all, Wild-Eyed Frenzy seems a bit conflicted with itself, given the broad gulk in converted mana costs. Nevertheless, we’ll be reserving judgment until we see it in action. We’ll put it through its paces, and return to render a verdict.

Visions: Wild-Eyed Frenzy Review (Part 2 of 2)

Hits: Fireblast is one of the all-time best burn spells ever printed, and you get two copies here

Misses: Tries to accomplish two goals that have little overlap, and becomes something of a muddle in the middle; burn suite lacking, which is shameful for a mono-Red deck; many of the Goblins are quite underwhelming options

OVERALL SCORE: 3.40/5.00

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Artist Spotlight

Talruum Piper by Pete Venters

I was originally just planning to point out here that Pete Venters is quite well known in the Magic world as being able to draw some pretty fearsome looking Goblins, so it’s interesting that his contributions to this deck were two Minotaurs and an Ogre. But I didn’t realise that he was heavily involved with the art direction of Mirage and Visions too: which is amazing and I love. Jay did a good summary on the first part of his review which I’ve linked above. I was wondering if I should be commenting on the art in these, as I have been starting to do so, since the purpose was to collect various reviews into one place. But if it’s good enough there then it’s good enough for me.

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