What should you cut from the Goblin Storm precon?
Goblin Storm is the Zada, Hedron Grinder precon, released on May 18, 2026. We ran the stock deck through EDHTuner at bracket 2, the same check the tool runs on a deck you paste.
EDHTuner names no card to cut from this deck. No card reads to it as a clear cut.
The deck is short on ramp. The tool suggests cards to add there. This page shows no adds.
How this deck works
Zada, Hedron Grinder leads a Goblin tribal deck that also leans on spellslinger, a ritual package and spell copying. Its main plan to win is to go wide and attack, and it holds one combo listed on Commander Spellbook. Its 100 cards include 36 lands, 6 ramp, 12 card advantage and 11 targeted disruption.
What bracket is it?
By Wizards' bracket rules, the Goblin Storm precon is bracket 3 or higher.
| Card | Why it counts |
|---|---|
| Storm-Kiln Artist | With Haze of Rage, a two-card infinite combo. Brackets 1 and 2 allow none, and bracket 3 only if it can't come together early in the game. |
The rules also ask how fast a deck wins and what it's built to do, and that part is for you and your table. The bracket checker page says how EDHTuner reads each rule.
How its counts compare
Each row counts the cards that do that job. The medians come from 18,414 public Commander decks on Moxfield, collected in July and November 2026. Moxfield puts 4,822 of them at brackets 1 and 2 and 6,057 at bracket 3. The deck numbers page says what each row counts. See how many lands Commander decks run, from the decks we counted.
| Goblin Storm | EDHTuner aims for | Median, brackets 1-2 | Median, bracket 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 36 | Playtested in the tool | 36 | 35 |
| Ramp | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Card advantage | 12 | 12 | 9 | 10 |
| Targeted disruption | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| Mass disruption | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Protection | 1 | No set number | 2 | 3 |
Mass disruption: 1 covers a deck built on its own creatures.
Themes EDHTuner finds in it
EDHTuner reads a deck's themes from the rules text on its cards. These are the themes it shows for Goblin Storm.
- Ritual package
- Spellslinger
- Spell copying
- Goblin tribal
All 100 cards
These are the precon's cards, grouped by what EDHTuner counts them as. Two cards show in more than one group, because each one fits more than one of them.
Show the 100 cards
Commander
| Zada, Hedron Grinder |
Lands, 36 cards
| Card | Copies |
|---|---|
| Arena of Glory | 1 |
| Castle Embereth | 1 |
| Den of the Bugbear | 1 |
| Dwarven Mine | 1 |
| Forgotten Cave | 1 |
| Fountainport | 1 |
| Goblin Burrows | 1 |
| Hidden Volcano | 1 |
| Kher Keep | 1 |
| Mountain | 22 |
| Reliquary Tower | 1 |
| Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep | 1 |
| Smoldering Crater | 1 |
| Spinerock Knoll | 1 |
| War Room | 1 |
Ramp, 6 cards
| Goblin Warchief | Howlsquad Heavy | Ruby Medallion |
| Sol Ring | Storm-Kiln Artist | Throne of Eldraine |
Card advantage, 12 cards
| Conspicuous Snoop | Daring Discovery | Fists of Flame |
| Fountainport | Glimpse the Impossible | Idol of Oblivion |
| Redcap Gutter-Dweller | Rundvelt Hordemaster | Sazacap's Brew |
| Skullclamp | War Room | Witch's Mark |
Targeted disruption, 11 cards
| Broadside Bombardiers | Chaos Warp | Gempalm Incinerator |
| Goblin Bombardment | Goblin Negotiation | Goblin Trashmaster |
| Grapeshot | Pashalik Mons | Siege-Gang Commander |
| Siege-Gang Lieutenant | Vandalblast |
Mass disruption, 1 card
| Blasphemous Act |
Protection, 1 card
| Swiftfoot Boots |
Everything else, 34 cards
| Ancestors' Aid | Battle Hymn | Boggart Shenanigans |
| Brightstone Ritual | Crimson Wisps | Dragon Fodder |
| Empty the Warrens | Expedite | Faithless Looting |
| Frontline Heroism | General Kreat, the Boltbringer | Goblin Bushwhacker |
| Goblin Chieftain | Goblin Dark-Dwellers | Goblin Lackey |
| Goblin Matron | Great Train Heist | Grenzo, Havoc Raiser |
| Haze of Rage | Impact Tremors | Impulsive Pilferer |
| Krenko's Command | Krenko, Mob Boss | Mana Geyser |
| Mogg War Marshal | Past in Flames | Quest for the Goblin Lord |
| Renegade Tactics | Roaming Throne | Searslicer Goblin |
| Seething Song | Skirk Prospector | Spreading Insurrection |
| Wild Ride |
Run it yourself
The tool opens in a new tab and runs the stock deck at bracket 2. There you also get the cards it would add.
The Zada, Hedron Grinder page shows what public Zada, Hedron Grinder decks on Moxfield run. The guide to cutting cards shows how EDHTuner picks cuts. The precons page has every other precon EDHTuner checked.
Checked on November 9, 2026 with EDHTuner v0.248.0. The tool reads EDHREC's data each time it runs, and that data changes, so it can name different cuts than this page does. The precon's cards come from MTGJSON (MIT license). Card data comes from Scryfall and play data from EDHREC.