Planning to, but it keeps getting pushed onto the back burner by something more pressing.

If you’re running Rally it’s a very different deck from Goblin Bidding. Rally gives you a turn with your creatures while Bidding was permanent, meaning if you go with Rally you’re more all in on either an alpha strike or comboing off. That may be a viable deck, I don’t know, but it’s not a perfect analogue.

I don’t think we can underestimate prospector in 8whack. People were sometimes already running burning tree emissary to set up bushwhacker surges. Prospector keeps with tribal synergy and lowers the curve a bit in a deck that really wants that to happen while helping to pay both surge AND kicker.

Random question: why not try to recreate patriarch’s bidding with Rally the Ancestors in a RW goblins shell? Rally at X=3 is the same cost as bidding and offers and out against decks like jund when they stabilize. Plus that combo-type finish requires only two or three deck slots as opposed to the numerous more with fecundity builds. Sure RiP stops it, but then you can just board them out (chance for mind games!)

As far as I remember there was a deck called Hanni-fish at that period in time.
If you want to research the period you might start by researching hanni-fish.

No guarantee though 😀

Green also gets Collected Company, so I don’t think Messenger is much of a precedent. The more I try out Prospector the more impressive I find him. If Goblins is actually good this time, it’s going to be because of Prospector.