Now that Wren and Six is banned, how essential is 4 maindeck pithing needle? Lots of decks don't play Wastelands, Wasteland recursion won't be a thing anymore and the needles can come in post board.
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Now that Wren and Six is banned, how essential is 4 maindeck pithing needle? Lots of decks don't play Wastelands, Wasteland recursion won't be a thing anymore and the needles can come in post board.
Once upon a Time seems like it could be quite strong in this deck.
Elvish Reclaimer also seems like a solid replacement for Expedition Map.
The new Ugin and new Karn may have given this deck a shot in the arm. Two lists 5-0ed on mtgo using these cards
Titan Post
Creatures (9)
2 Elvish Rejuvenator 2g 0.02
3 Primeval Titan 4gg 22.86...
I disagree that the below list doesn't count as Turbo Eldrazi. It uses cloud post mana and cost reducers to turbo out massive Eldrazi.
As the OP stated: "The core:
4 [TSP] Vesuva
1 [WWK] Eye...
Chalice at 1 >>>> Pithing Needle. Chalice cripples so many decks that I would never cut it. So playing 1cc cards is not an option imo. Wasteland is not that big a threat here. Getting a land blown up...
Wasteland is actually less of an issue here than with a traditional build. Traditional builds are much more delayed by a Cloudpost getting Wasted where as this manabase is designed to function...
Because the new Eldrazi (Thought-Knot Seer, Reality Smasher etc) are so powerful, I think it would be worthwhile taking this deck in a slightly different direction.
A manabase similar to the below...
I have always been interested in modifying this deck to accomidate Chalice of the Void and maybe Trinisphere
A resolved Chalice at 1 or Trinisphere is autowin against a big chunk of the format.
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