That's possible. I think having a lot of disruption, redundancy and blockers and a pretty strong late game with manlands and planeswalkers, while being able to fly over the top, would be good. Plus it can play Magus of the Moon (which I would buy now if you want them, because freakin Painter is like $50 now because people think it might be good). But yeah, Reality Smasher and Vile Aggregate are real pains. Of course, path your Smasher, discard Lingering Souls just oozes value.
I always liked Ghostly Prison and wondered why people didn't play it more against Splinter Twin. It will turn of the shenanigans but you still have to deal with the
Painter I think will end up disappointing people. It's a 3 mana 1/3 that doesn't affect the current board AND doesn't completely lock people out -- they can just stack up lands and play their creatures on curve. It turns off Eye, but so does Crumble to Dust for 1 more, and more permanently. And as far as I know there's no meaningful modern combo with it.
I'm kind of excited to see what people come up with before Eye is banned, assuming people even play modern. Maybe we'll get some cool decks.
Painter is 2cmc so it's not quite as pitiful as it would be against eldrazi if it were 3cmc. It's still pretty horrible if eldrazi got a fast start though.
I'm playing a tempo-y grixis deck with 5+ 2cmc black kill spells (mix of terminate, roast, go for the throat, and doom blade) and it's doing okayish against eldrazi. Forked bolt has been great for multiple mimic starts too. I think people are trying to be a little too cute when they should just be trying to kill everything all the time and overloading their thought-knots.
I played against Eldrazi (new brew) with old mono b and bw.no chance in hell
I played against new Eldrazi with living end.
Mull to chalice on 0 and win. Gg
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Many Eldrazi decks run 4x Chalice to hit you at 1. I don't really see Path/inquistion/thoughtseize to be that viable if you don't have something to take care of it if they do land one early.
Chalice to 0 against living end makes you scoop.
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Yeah, I was responding about the BW tokens comment, but didn't notice that that was a page ago.
Well, the real problem with this Eldrazi deck is that modern doesn't have the tools to prepare for 8+ ways of getting a 2-drop down turn 1. If you play around Chalice, they Mimic-swarm you; if you load up on cheap interaction, you have Chalice to deal with.
That being said, it's probably pretty safe to eschew Path, in favor of Dismember and/or good old Doom Blade since so few black creatures are played in the format.
Go For the Throat? Only misses Wurmcoil Engine, at least, that I can think of.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Also misses Spellskite but that's really a mixed thing.
I played the Eldrazi deck (Colourless) last night. It is quite strong. Something unlike anything I have played before in Modern. This thing will eat the hammer if the meta doesn't adjust but it is beatable.
They should print some new powerful cards as these.
Anti chalice. XX
Antichalice enters the battlefield with X counters. Players can't play spells with converted mana cost higher than X.
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