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I've been testing with Lodestone, but he really ruins my SB plan VS Mono-Colored decks.  Stone Rain really isn't appealing at 4 mana.  I don't know if he adds enough to the MD.  Trinisphere + Him give a nice set up, Sphere on turn 2, him on turn 3 can give me 1 turn  But on that same turn I can usually get in there for a lot more than 5 with Pit Dragon.

Alternately I could go with an Empty the Warrens plan B over Dragon.  I can make a crap ton of Goblins pretty quickly.  I could then us Memnite or Signal Pest over Bauble.  With Trinispher locking down sweepers to 3 mana, I could probably over run the field with tokens before they could cast something.

It's a toss up either way.  I do perfer the Pest though.

Memnites advtanage is it's a free count to my storm.  Which means if I hold off on it until I start going to storm out the Goblins, I can 2 more Goblins for nothing.  I just have to try to either generate enough mana to also cast Trinisphere.  Not too had a job with the right hand.

Turn 1: Citadel, Memnite, Mox, Ritual, Song, Warrens for 10 Goblins

That's only 6 cards.  Since I always opt to draw, turn 1 still leaves me with 2 cards in hand. and 1 mana in my pool from Song. if I had a seond Song in hand, that leaves me with mana left over for Trinishpere.  And a +4 Goblins.

But I perfer Pest because of Battle Cry.  If I get 10 Goblins + pest on turn 1, I'm probably winning that game.  It's assured if I have Trinisphere in play, but I don't think I can ramp that on turn 1.

Turn 1: Citadel, Mox, pitch Spirit Guide, Ritual, Pest, Ritual, Warrens for 10 Goblins.  I can't think of a way to also get Trinisphere out of that.  It's too tight on cards.  Pests 1 mana locks down any hope I have to combo off AND play Trinisphere.

Demigod forces me to have that Song in hand though.  Without Chrome Mox, or Rite of Flame to help accel the process, I don't know if I can risk a second 5 drops.  I played with Godo, but that never did much, outside of fetching me a Lightning Greaves and slaping it on Godo to begin the beatings.

I can get Pit Dragon in on turn 1 with no problem, and then the 2 mana to give him flying get's that evasion.

I've used Demigod in the past, but I'm not sure about him at the moment.

What else would you suggest for ramp other than the Mox I can use?  If that Mox goes, Citadel goes, and as does my other 4 slots dedicated to mostly turning the Mox on.  Some Mountains have to get add in, but that still leaves room to work with, around 6 slots.  Let's hear what you'd suggest.

I'm mostly just pulling my hair out trying to figure out how I can reliably dump a Sphere turn 1 and Something else turn 2.

Citadel really isn't too big a concern, all my rituals can take and it covers the the artifact front to turn on Mox.  Even in 1 game where where I was stuck on double Citadel, I was able to pull off a Turn 1 Sphere off of a Spirit Guide, after playing my Mox (the only reason I kept the hand).  Turn 2 Seething Song into Deus did the rest.

Most of the time, Citadel has just been fodder for Caverns though.

I probably could get by with Demigod though, I just don't want to have to relay on 3 Rituals at once or have to have Song + Ritual.  That's what the Demigod - Dragon debate boils down too.