Quote Originally Posted by winglerw28 View Post
EDIT: To clarify, Crucible of Worlds is better than Loam but not because Loam is bad - they do different things. Loam is actually great WITH Crucible since you have Ruins, Eye of Ugin, and Academy Ruins, but the deck can't fit both and Loam is far more awkward with Eldrazis.
This is precisely why my experimental Loam-based list had to drop Eldrazi. But that's why I went with Steel Hellkite and Sundering Titan as threats (other than Ugin) rather than something like Titania. You can use Academy Ruins to recur either of them, and Haven also recurs Hellkite. Hellkite in particular seems the right call for this type of build. Aside from the quasi-Deed effect when it connects, he also uses colorless mana for firebreathing.

I still haven't had time to do testing to determine whether that list is any good...