Quote Originally Posted by MtgVector View Post
Maybe I'm not very good at expressing my ideas.

My opinion is that the current versions of Turbo Eldrazi are quite vurnerable to the current metagame, and that the deck should be reviewed and perhaps we should revisit the older versions, since we seem to be moving towards traditional Show and Tell decks and away from the original idea of hard casting Eldrazi creatures.

I think Rock Lee has explained why Pithing Needle is not very effective nowadays: if they have wastelands/decay needle is pretty bad; if they have wastelands but not decay, then you can rely on fetching basic lands and resolving show and tell, which is more reliable than needle.

And I'm not coming to this conclusion from a theoretical perspective, I draw it from my winning % against the field lately, which has rapidly decreased. Which is also why this is my opinion and not a general conclusion.

At the end was wondering if my thoughts echoed with other people piloting this deck, and wanted to know what other ideas are out there to tackle the current meta.
Granted, I play a cheaper version of the deck, but I'm not sure I agree with much of this.

If this week is any indication to me, Pithing Needle has plenty of use. Maybe it's because my meta features just about every deck currently played in Legacy, but I found some way to use it in every single one of my games: almost always to great effect. Not running Needle just because several decks happen to run Abrupt Decay seems pretty dumb to me. They still have to have it in order to take out your Needle, and those decks would almost certainly be running Decay anyway: if it's not hitting Needle, then it's probably going to hit Candelabra of Tawnos or Oblivion Stone if you're running either. If you boarded in Chalice of the Void, Decay takes care of that, too. Especially if you can tutor for it with Trinket Mage, but even if you can't, I feel reasonably certain that Pithing Needle warrants some number of slots in the deck, where that number is greater than zero. I find that Pithing Needle is also a reasonably high priority target when it comes to my opponent counterspelling or destroying things, and if it means I can then resolve a clutch Crop Rotation or Sensei's Divining Top, then I'm not going to bitch.