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Having studied the spam patterns on mtggoldfish.com I no longer think that they demand payment there, or at least the spammers have learned how to run from the bill.

I've launched articles there that were quickly spammed away.
The approach is similar to what's been done in the past here, the spammers upvote their own spam by using fake accounts to upvote them. There was a pretty constant flow of "one deck" users. Any deck posted I simply wrote down the username and then searched for decks made by that username.

Apart from the spam that got all the upvotes, the majority of users only had a single deck.

This is something you can test out yourself.
Simply post a good deck there anonymously, then wait for an hour, and voila, your deck is gone from page 1.
Then go through all of the decks covering yours, those users closest to your post will only have 1 deck, while the most fresh decks on the list will be users who has many upvotes and many decks.

It's almost the same model they've been using here.

I'd suggest you contact the site about a collaboration.

Meanwhile I'll be working at warning their users by telling them about how their site is being manipulated.
Naturally I do it by posting decks with deckdescription followed by the warning.

The team has been hard pressed by my preliminary warnings, and as I wrote earlier, you would see a drop in activity in here during my first test of their wall of spam...

We had only two active deckpages at the height of my probing, now, where I've given them a small break, we have 5 active pages.

I'll give a small heads up about my next effort, and frankly, they will have to really work for it next time.
Checking in each hour to spam things over will not be anywhere near what they will need to do to cover my articles.
Since they will be forced to patrol the site frequently they can't be here as well, so a similar drop of activity will be seen once more.

During my youth, when I ran a lot of simulations I discovered that I could wake up every hour without the use of an alarm clock to register the results of the simulation which took about an hour to run. I'm pretty sure I can still perform that stunt, so I can put a 24 hour siege on our trolls at that place.

They'll have a living hell heading right at them ;)