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    Re: What happened to Eldrazi Stompy?

    The hype and interest in this deck has really died down, at least on The Source. The last post in the Eldrazi Stompy thread is from 11/6, despite this deck recently being moved to DTB.

    My personal guess as to why people aren't hyping it is that the deck is just too consistently linear. AKA its boring. Cast one creature per turn and turn em sideways.

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    Re: What happened to Eldrazi Stompy?

    It's also unlikely to get new toys until Eldrazi are revisited.

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    Re: What happened to Eldrazi Stompy?

    Quote Originally Posted by Finn View Post
    Why would you write that? The decks to beat section does not determine which decks are popular. It is a reflection of them. The topic predates the update in DTB by like a day. So any changes in it has been present in the meta for weeks already. And you already know that.
    I, like many, don't follow much other sources. Apparently same with the starter of this thread. What's so difficult about this? I also think that the question was a bit controversial but I understand why someone would ask it.
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    Re: What happened to Eldrazi Stompy?

    Is it a DTB based on like SCG and online results I guess? My recent seventy person quarterly in Atlanta I think I saw one person playing eldrazi and it was the grim monolith post variation
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    Quote Originally Posted by Megadeus View Post
    My recent seventy person quarterly in Atlanta I think I saw one person playing eldrazi and it was the grim monolith post variation
    Same tournament where I heard Pox made top 8 and goblins, merfolk and painter made appears. So there is that.

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    Same tournament where I heard Pox made top 8
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    Re: What happened to Eldrazi Stompy?

    Quote Originally Posted by Megadeus View Post
    Is it a DTB based on like SCG and online results I guess? My recent seventy person quarterly in Atlanta I think I saw one person playing eldrazi and it was the grim monolith post variation
    It’s based on the councils data which tracks information globally, so it may not necessarily be reflective of regional meta games (US vs EU for example)
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    Re: What happened to Eldrazi Stompy?

    Quote Originally Posted by Megadeus View Post
    Is it a DTB based on like SCG and online results I guess? My recent seventy person quarterly in Atlanta I think I saw one person playing eldrazi and it was the grim monolith post variation
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    The transition from bulk to DTB happened after this topic was opened.
    Over the Fall I have occasionally taken a peak at MTG top8 to check the last 2 months of live tournament data. Eldrazi has consistently been in 2nd or 3rd place for overall representation every time I have looked.

    Yet there are always people happy to explain that the deck is not actually good because it is too inconsistent and/or the format has "adapted". Threads like this are common on Reddit. I think there those who want very much to believe Eldrazi cannot compete with the more interactive decks in the format; but the facts seem to have different ideas.
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    Re: What happened to Eldrazi Stompy?

    The deck was never Bulk. It can run 13 to 16 Sol Lands, build dependent, Spirit Guides, Chalice, Thorn and a clock that disrupts or has protection. The deck is solid. The deck is also EXTREMELY boring.

    As a prison lover I would rather play Lands, Stax or Metalworker than Eldrazi because each one of those decks is fun for me to play. Eldrazi is not a simple deck (Though some argue it is) but it's a repetitive one. You have exactly one game plan and you can't do much other that turn beefsticks sideways. That means that while strong it's not for everyone. It's sure as hell not for me and you would think looking at it I would be it's target audience.
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    Re: What happened to Eldrazi Stompy?

    I think Dice has it. I didn't see it much a couple months back when I was at my local a lot, and one of the people who had run it had gotten tired of it. He likes slamming T1 blood moons with Big Red, Goblin-Fetcher-Dude Stompy, runs Belcher, and other obnoxious decks; but I think he probably hates that Eldrazi usually can't interact on the stack and plays the same a lot. There's a lot less tinkering you can do to the deck too, because it's card interactions are insular; which is to say that you don't get a lot of choices to play with due to Eldrazi lands and being colorless. I think his deal (Blood Moon guy) is that it's not a real lock. I can attest that Prison players like to run you out of mana and watch your face cringe at your hand [I've fancied some various Loam, Pox, and KotR piles in my day], and nothing feels better than swinging for X while your opponent has no lands.

    It's obviously successful, but I assume it's harder to continue playing a deck that doesn't offer High-Skill-Cap Credit-Bux because it doesn't play into the ego. On the stack you can say "Oh, well I wouldn't have lost if I had just BRainstormsd THAT card away instead; obviously my genius would've won the day THEN"


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    When it was fresh, Jund DTB was similar. It basically...was. Made DTB extremely fast when it hopped over from Modern and the thread was only like 3 pages long. The decklist was largely set in stone, with 1-2 flex spots (Maelstrom Pulse, 3 or 4 BBE's) and variations being the ratio of AD to Punishing Fire. The deck shuffled up and ran itself, and you won or lost based on the order of what you drew or cascaded into and how your Hymn die rolls landed.

    Eldrazi Stompy is a pretty stable deck that doesn't afford a lot of tinkering or have a very complex strategy. Find the latest MTGtop8 result, copy the list, and run it.
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