Quote Originally Posted by ESG View Post
You have to go pretty deep if you're committing to a Dreadnought plan, but people forget that this card exists:

Thanks, ESG! You inspired me to pick up Eldrazi again, and I played it to a 2nd place finish for a Volcanic Island this past weekend. Here's a quick report I wrote up for my friends:

Game Hunters got 24 players today, so 5 rounds, cut to top 8.

I played Eldrazi, cutting all the removal for a playset each of Illusionary Mask and Phyrexian Dreadnought. I also didn't play Wasteland - have never liked it in the deck. List at the end.

In the swiss I played versus, in order: NicFit, UB Standstill, Grixis Delver, BR Reanimator, and Shardless - losing to Standstill and intentionally drawing with Shardless.

Round 1, my opening hand of the tournament was the turn-2 kill (Double Mimic into Dreadnought).

Landstill and I were the last to finish in round 2, he beat me 2-0. The games were petty awesome.

Chalices and Thorns did in the Delver player.

In game 2 vs reanimator (on the play) I kept a hand that went Thorn, Thorn, TKS, Smasher the first 4 turns. In game 3 I mulled to THREE and finally found a Leyline; he scooped. He had Reverent Silence in game 2, but took them out for game 3. :-p

Drew into 5th seed and faced Landstill again in the quarters. He never saw a Dreadnought in our swiss match, but they crushed him and exacted revenge in the playoffs.

I beat infect in the semis after dropping the first game. Walking Ballista was insane.

Turn-1 Thoughtseize wrecked me in both games of the finals after some sketchy keeps. Game 1 was a hand with turn-2 Smasher, Game 2 was turn-2 TKS, with the creature discarded both times.

A note on the list... The Mishra's Factories were a hold over from when I had Smugglers Copters. I cut the two copters for the 4th Mask and 3rd Elvish Spirit Guide after FNM. I meant to switch the Factories to Wastes (the basic) but forgot to.

Copter had a cool interaction with mask, being able to flip up the 2/2 at will. But wasn't good enough. And mask and spirit guide impressed at FNM. Also, Mask lets you cast Dreadnought through a Chalice on 1 (since it's CMC is 0 when played face-down). I also named Dreadnought with Cavern a few times to play him face-up through Chalice on 1.

4 Ancient Tomb
4 Cavern of Souls
3 City of Traitors
4 Eldrazi Temple
4 Eye of Ugin
4 Mishra's Factory
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Eldrazi Mimic
3 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Endless One
4 Illusionary Mask
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
4 Reality Smasher
4 Thought-Knot Seer

Sideboard:
3 All Is Dust
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Walking Ballista