Quote Originally Posted by Claymore View Post
Played a small tournament, but managed to go 0-2 in matches against an Eldrazi player, who also throttled other aggro loam players at the tournament. Got manhandled in my matches.

Matchup seems a bit rough and heavily reliant on getting one or more large Knights out quickly through Thoughtknot disruption, and game 2 avoiding the Leyline draws. I almost think we need straight Devastating Dreams sweepers or simple Go for the Throat spells in the board. Maybe 1x Goyf main to make a fast fat body? Their 14+ sol lands means our wastelands are overloaded so hitting a single Ancient Tomb is followed up by an additional City plus Thought knot, and their 4/4 and 5/5s swinging on turn 3 don't give Loam a lot of time to wastelock.
About a week ago I was trying to make an adjustment for the eldrazi MU. I was in between adding a goyf back to the main deck or just straight up adding a dismember. I was going to shave an abrupt decay for either card (go from 4 -> 3). Someone earlier suggest Hornet's Nest (also zenithable). I considered playing retribution of the meek (though eventually I settled on dismember since its instant, then never got paired against it). Ultimately I think we may be better off not running random 1 off cards in our main deck for a match up we might face.

I think we just have to hope that they don't have a super explosive draw. It sucks but, sometimes your opponent just "has it". I think our average draw is better than theirs and any specific cards for the MU should be in the sideboard.