[Primer] Eldrazi Stompy

[Barook]

4 Serum Powders in today's 9th place Eldrazi deck at SCG Indy.

Maindeck, nonetheless

Seems interesting, considering he runs zero MD removal (unless you count the Endbringer).

[Eldariel]

The idea certainly has merit. It increases the amount of games where you just slam down a T1 Chalice and win, and overall getting free mulligans in a deck whose greatest power is the explosive early game is nice. Hardcasting it accelerates into Reality Smasher, Endbringer, big Endless One and even Eye activation so it's not useless in that sense either. And it of course gives you Blood Moon-proof source of colorless for all your toys. The cost is very real though: running colored cards with 4 additional purely colorless sources seems nigh' impossible which cuts away one of the best manasinks (and indeed, one of the strongest cards) in the deck in Eldrazi Displacer, and the slots used are far from free. As an accelerant, it's certainly no Grim Monolith, Mindstone, Worn Powerstone or Thran Dynamo. Still, given how much the deck plays off the opening hand, some worse topdecks might be worth the trade-off of a higher likelihood of a superexplosive hand in colorless lists.

[Noloam_]

i think serum powder is a solid plan. but it makes you cry sometimes when you have no removal.

he is also playing 4 eyes ^^


man i just won from a miracles dude, who played ensnaring bridge & back to basics. haters man! but he forgot to fetch in response to my needle, so i named flooded strand. then he was looking a 2 attacking factorys and a smasher, with one tundra in play .LEL

[talpa]

Maindeck, nonetheless
Seems interesting, considering he runs zero MD removal (unless you count the Endbringer).

I think that's really worth considering.
Though maybe we should test more, for the exact numbers (at first sight, it seems to me that if you already have a tool for free mulligans, you could afford to be less solid, for example three instead of four eyes of ugin). Also, you can find the space for wails by cutting for example endbringer, one thorn, one land... my personal preference would be to cut jitte's as well.

anyway, thank you both for pointing out this list.

[Cire]

Maindeck, nonetheless

Seems interesting, considering he runs zero MD removal (unless you count the Endbringer).

Or jitte, I guess

[razvan]

So I marathoned this thread since I would like to pick this up. I have one question I seem to not have found an answer for (might also be the stupidest question).

In the GW build, what is the benefit of Corrupted Crossroads over Brushland? Other than the damage/life difference.

[Barook]

So I marathoned this thread since I would like to pick this up. I have one question I seem to not have found an answer for (might also be the stupidest question).

In the GW build, what is the benefit of Corrupted Crossroads over Brushland? Other than the damage/life difference.

Assuming you don't run non-Eldrazi colored cards or Eldrazi outside of the GW spectrum, they're functionally the same. No need to worry about it.

[Noloam_]

I like the list that this GW dude played

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/417161#online

thorns main and endbringer main (L). i played against him in the swiss. he was 4-0 i was 2-0 ;/. weird uppair i guess. i also go no good sideboard against the mirror. especially vs the GW build

[Quasim0ff]

I like the list that this GW dude played

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/417161#online

thorns main and endbringer main (L). i played against him in the swiss. he was 4-0 i was 2-0 ;/. weird uppair i guess. i also go no good sideboard against the mirror. especially vs the GW build

Just FYI: Leagues aren't swiss ;)

[Noloam_]

Just FYI: Leagues aren't swiss ;)

yes that is the lesson that i've learned XD

i went 4-1 again today. shardless racked my dream again. how do you guys board against shardless?

i bring in: 2 needle, 2 all is dust, 2 sphere of resitance

i board out: 2 thorn, 4 chalice

[the_goat]

third tournament with eldrazi - third times I win prizes!
3-1 yesterday evening in Prague...

lost the first to lands - very lucky opponent...i start g3 with leyline and turn 1 null rod after his land + land diamond....
unfortunately for me my second land to cast reshaper is urborg - he finds stage and no third land...i attack with smasher turn 3...still no 3rd land...last useful turn...he finds the 20/20 land...

won against 12 post - chalice for 1 and wastelands

won against deathblade - my opponent leaves on top of my deck an eldrazi mimic (chalice for 1 and for 2 on the board) without realizing I have cavern - this allows me to get rid of Jace and win easily....

won the mirror siding in zuran orb that allows me to be always + 8 lives virtually and winning the smasher race...

I love the deck...

tonight testing against the land player that beat me last 2 tournaments and against another player with ANT

[Barook]

Another 4-1 league run - the curse continues...

R1: Miracles 2-0
R2: Grixis Delver 2-0 (the overrun strategy works like a charm)
R3: WR Eldrazi 0-2 (the deck had Displacer AND Obligator (which rekt me hard G1) MD, thus it was even better in the mirror than my list; G2 I was completely manascrewed)
R4: Mono C Eldrazi 2-1 (misplayed G1 brainlessly (you should play Wail before the Mimic trigger), still won G2 & G3 on the back of Displacer)
R5: ANT 2-1 (G1 I locked him out with Chalice, so I could only guess from his fetches that he's on Storm; G2 he goes off T3, G3 double TKS + Reality Smasher killed him super quick)

Only match lost to the Wx mirror - I can live with that.

[Deckerator]

@ Barook
Do you play still the same list from weeks before?

[Barook]

@ Barook
Do you play still the same list from weeks before?

No reason to change it when it runs like a charm

@Noloam_ : All is Dust is a must, but your other SB options don't seem that great in general. I'd probably try to bring in Leyline instead to slow down their Goyf/DRS, but it gives you potential dead draws.

[razvan]

Assuming you don't run non-Eldrazi colored cards or Eldrazi outside of the GW spectrum, they're functionally the same. No need to worry about it.

Ah ok thanks. I figured, but I have been known to miss the obvious :P

[maraxusofkelds]

yes that is the lesson that i've learned XD

i went 4-1 again today. shardless racked my dream again. how do you guys board against shardless?

i bring in: 2 needle, 2 all is dust, 2 sphere of resitance

i board out: 2 thorn, 4 chalice

3 all is dust, 4 leylines (gofy and wasteland are your single worst enemies in this matchup, a single leyline blanks gofy enough that he can just wall everything you own and cant be abrupt decayed), another warping wail for deathrite and strix

Like barook said, your gameplan is to overrun them before they card advantage you to death so no point in boarding out your low cost threats.

[xArabOfficerx]

No reason to change it when it runs like a charm

@Noloam_ : All is Dust is a must, but your other SB options don't seem that great in general. I'd probably try to bring in Leyline instead to slow down their Goyf/DRS, but it gives you potential dead draws.

I do notice that the Colorless has a lacking sideboard compared to the G/W build with Worldbreaker.

[maraxusofkelds]

Quick question. What is the benefit to running lotus petal over elvish spirit guide? Immunity to cabal therapy or discards? How often would they pick that over one of our threats? I feel like SSG/Elvish Spirit Guide are both better esp since it allows us heavy counterplay to daze when they dont expect it.

[Barook]

Quick question. What is the benefit to running lotus petal over elvish spirit guide? Immunity to cabal therapy or discards? How often would they pick that over one of our threats? I feel like SSG/Elvish Spirit Guide are both better esp since it allows us heavy counterplay to daze when they dont expect it.

Color fixing. There is no Angelic Spirit Guide to exile for white. Simple as that.

[Noloam_]

hehehehe :)


i was playing against H0cusP0cus yesterday (a former eldrazi player with good results). He played tower of magistrate. Not only against batterskull and jitte. but also against strix, and sometimes shardless agent himself. i think about testing this

5-0 today. lets challange the GW team for the best results ;). is riehu on my team or not ? (he better be)


i will try the leyline's next time btw