Quote Originally Posted by btm10 View Post
I prefer 19 land in my Hymn lists, but I'm in the minority on that one. My starting 60 was almost identical the last time I played BUG Delver, with 0 Liliana, 1 Dismember, 2 Pierce, and 2 TNNs in the flex creature slots. I'm a little greedy, but the deck basically has to be. I also think that Eldrazi is a pretty favorable matchup.
Well, 20 is based on having something like 4 three-drops. 19 is plausible, but it tends to hurt when you play RUG or Death & Taxes, in my experience. I don't think 19 is wrong, per se, but rather is a little risky.

My Eldrazi experience was never real positive, but it may well have just been the version I played against. It wasn't a large number of games, so perhaps it was just straight variance, but I never felt I was ever really ahead unless my hand was just nuts.