Quote Originally Posted by MGB View Post
I've played Stompy decks for many years in Legacy - of all shades (white Soldiers, blue Faerie, red Dragon, green Sylvan).

This version simply feels faster, but not necessarily superior. Soldiers had card draw and Thalia, whereas this deck doesn't really have any kind of card draw, and it has to play Thorn instead of a 2/1 body attached to Thorn. Dragon Stompy had Moon effects which are arguably more disruptive than anything this deck plays with the possible exception of Thought Knot Seer. Faerie Stompy of course had access to blue which gave it counters and Back to Basics and the like.

I think people might be overestimating this deck, especially people who have never played Stompy variants in Legacy before. The power of Chalice of the Void and/or Trinisphere or Thorn effects will give the pilot alot of free wins, but these decks were never close to Tier 1 because at their heart they are still playing fair Magic without any kind of consistent smoothing of card draws that blue cantrips provide. I don't really see Eldrazi improving those weaknesses, because although they are very efficient, they are still just creatures fighting fair like any other Stompy deck.

The only way Eldrazi Stompy differentiates itself from the rest of the Tier 2 Stompy decks of Legacy is if they simply prove to be significantly faster and that speed makes up for other inherent deficiencies of creature-based Chalice/Tomb decks.
One of the issues of stompy was that it wasn't consistent. The creatures were not threatening enough without equipment, or the land couldn't support the threatening creatures. Eldrazi seems to come close because it gets 4-7 more "sol lands" with temple and eye. The creatures are consistently large and threatening on their own. Although they are threats they don't provide much utility so its hard to strike a balance. One of their perks over mud is that they are not artifacts, just colorless.

To answer you more directly, the creatures are more efficient and can be faster. The issue is that you are not fighting against fair decks in the format. While there is a fair amount of synergy in the deck I don't see anything AMAZING that says, oh wow that could change things.

I see tons of problems the deck could run into such as ensnaring bridge and very few ways to deal with it.

I'd say of all the stompy decks, green was probably the best. I know the deck never gained much recognition but it was discussed and worked on a lot by lejay. Green has access to some of the best creatures in existence, and GSZ and the deck still couldn't make the cut to tier 1 of the legacy format.