Good to know. It's interesting to me that in Counters Company and in Green White Value Town, you wouldn't bring in Flash Freeze? In the match up, the text of Flash Freeze practically reads, "counter target spell".
I would consider Flashfreeze against random company decks like Bant company, Ramunap company, and maybe Humans company since I actually do not bring in Grafdigger's against them. I only bring in Grafdigger's if I can hit both chord and company and not just company (and finks in the case of counters company). So in those cases I do have the space to bring in flasfhreeze, which is passable but not amazing against company decks.
It's valid to bring in flsahfreeze against counters company but the question is what do you cut? Skyspawner is a legitimate wincon, TKS and displacer both help you not lose, and drowner also provides you the backup plan to their backup plan (gavony/indestructible kitchen finks). I wouldn't cut stirrings because digging for EE is super important. You can only have so many reactionary cards and you need to clock them because their lategame is often better than ours.
As an aside, I've cut batterskull (again owing to not seeing UW/abzan/gbx anymore and ballista providing inevitability anyway), but batterskull is also really good against Ramunap company. Batterskull is also somewhat reasonable against counters company; yes they often can kill it with a well timed pridemage, but it gives us inevitability against the gavony/finks beatdown plan which we actually struggle with.
I tried the walking ballista main board a bit on xmage and was overall displeased with it. It seems disappointing every time I've casted it. I don't like playing a 2/2 with an arch lightning style effect for 4 mana when I could be playing thought knots and smashers with that type of mana. Also, in my experience, the card wasn't even all that much of an all star in the counter company decks. It can kill a bird of paradise before they can ramp into there threats provided we are on the play. But even then, it's a 1 for 1 trade. For me, Walking Ballista in Bant Eldrazi has felt lackluster.
I'm not saying that it's incorrect for us to play it, but for me, it has very much so underperformed.
You should be trying to save it for the maximum amount of mana you can cast it for. If you have a tks or smasher in hand you should be playing those first. If you have to play ballista first it's because you have to kill something on board or else you die, and in that case the mana inefficiency is less relevant. Against counters company you don't bolt the bird. Obviously tks and smasher are better cards for us but the question is if ballista is better than reshaper and I think that's pretty situational.
As I've mentioned before, flashfreeze and gideons intervention are both great against valakut. If you want to beat valakut you can, just by bringing in those cards. Side out all paths and EE.
Affinity is less favorable than burn... imo burn is pretty easy. Worship and chalice very often just win you the game postboard and stony silence does not, contrary to popular belief. Reshaper is good against burn but I do fine against burn without it. I would much rather use those slots for ballista to up my winrate against counters company than against burn.
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I feel like that is wrong. On both counts. Yes, storm side in empty the warrens, but that doesn't stop them from just playing the grapeshot game if they think they can or should, and even if they do go the empty path you still want their bin sealed up. There is a big difference between 12 goblins and 24 goblins.
Just my 2 cents. But I would bring in all my grave hate to maximise my chance of seeing it
I agree with bringing in all the grave hate you can against storm. I currently run 2 Rest In Peace and 2 grafdigger cage as grave hate I bring in.
Whyjesse's sideboard plan is a bit different than most of us bant eldrazi players. He runs chalice of the void. Maybe there is a concern with over boarding for the match up. If you side board in 9 cards, that means you are likely removing some number of threats.
I bring in 2 leyline of sanctity, 2 stubborn denial, 2 Rest In Peace, and 2 cage against storm (sometimes a natural state for blood moon, and have heavily contemplated bringing in flashfreeze and disdainful stroke against them. And I still don't feel I have enough hate for the deck. I was recently contemplating adding ethersworn canonist as a 1 of in my sideboard. Seems decent against the combo decks. I'd bring it in against storm, as nausum, and living end.
I think it would stop living end. If they cast a spell to cascade into living end, they can not cast the living end because it'd be a second non artifact spell. ...I think
I'm stuck on 61 cards, and not sure what to cut from the main. The options are 1 EE, 1 Dismember, 1 Skyspawner, or 1 Matter Reshaper. EE isn't great right now, but I really want them against the go wide decks, especially now that 5c Humans is becoming Popular. If I cut an EE from the main, I would probably want to move it to the board, or add something like a Worship. I could cut a 3-drop like a skyspawner or Reshaper since I'm heavy on threats at the 3 slot, but I like having both Skyspawner and Reshaper on curve there. And I also like the 5th removal spell in Dismember. Especially because we don't always have white in the early stages of the game, so Dismember is a hedge there.
Let me know if any of you folks are playing Bant Eldrazi soon, and if you have any suggestions for my list.
EE is fantastic right now - im not sure why you would think it isnt - I play 3x MD and wouldnt play any less. Id cut dismember. Id add Settle the Wreckage somewhere in that list and maybe 2x
brosterman,
I am also going to the Regionals this weekend.
I agree with IslandAreBroken that EE is very good for us right now, and I am surprised to hear that in your experience, it has proven to be mediocre. In my short time that I have been an active member on this forum, I have posted a few times why I also advocate 3 EE in the main. I won't reiterate my reasoning in fear of boring the majority of this community with information they have already read, but if your interested, click on my name, then "View Posts". I posted about 3 EE in the main on September 22nd. (somewhere on page 76 of this forum)
I would also say that Dismember is the card I would likely cut in your list. I played it for a small amount of time and always felt paying 20% of my starting life total was too high a cost for the removal spell # 5. I have found 4 Path to Exile and 3 EE as removal to be sufficient. In most match ups, EE can at its worst 1 for 1 your opponent. At its best, you can win against match ups you had no business winning when you 3 for 1 or better your opponent.
I did want to ask about your decision of 3 Disdainful Strokes in the sideboard. What match ups do you bring all 3 in? Is the only match up Titanshift/Valakut? If so, I would consider changing 1 disdainful stroke into a FlashFreeze. This would allow you to still have 3 hard counters to Titanshift decks, and you can bring the FlashFreeze in for certain match ups disdainful stroke doesn't fit. Example, Elves, Burn, Green White Value Town, Counters Company.
3x EE in the main may help you more this weekend, it's good against quite a few decks that give us trouble (Storm, Merfolk, Elves ect ect). I highly recommend the 3rd Rest in Peace and 1 Worship in the SB. If it were me I'd cut Thragtusk and go down a Disdainful stroke. I've been playing a lot of Bant Eldrazi in prep for GP Oklahoma on Dec 5th. I think the deck is underplayed; players have forgotten how good the SB is, not too much it's consistency in going 3-4-5 a turn ahead of the curve. Good Luck!
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I've been thinking about how poorly positioned E-Tron is starting to look and feel and momentarily started putting the missing pieces of Bant Eldrazi into a shopping cart...until I thought about the Storm matchup
Isn't Bant Eldrazi a dog to Storm though? It's kind of what kept me from wanting to try the deck out
EE looks fantastic right now, Tropical Fish is a thing, along with Humans reported to be everywhere on mtgo
No doubt, storm is not a good match up. EE is okay there, Path is well...it has to hit 1 of their enablers. After SB you get to bring in speed bumps, RIP and Cage. You can bring in permission, but in all honesty, I think the best solution is to just pressure them, land a RIP/ Cage and hope it sticks. EE on 2 is good here.
Chalice could help, but it comes at the cost of shutting down your own 1cmc plays.
I think Bant Eldrazi is the best EE deck, (not that it's trying to be, it just so happens that it is) it skips from 1-3cmc consistently. I did play test against U/G Merfolk and EE was still huge. I landed a Worship and my opponent scooped them up. G1 is still hard, but G2-G3 are much closer. With the meta shifting it may be correct to drop Matter Reshaper again in Lieu of 4 skyspawners to enable the T3 TKS/ Smasher more.
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Hey everyone, thanks for the advice on my decklist. My thing with EE right now is that it's hit or miss against a lot of decks. Looking at the top 12 modern decks on MtgGoldfish, it's only actually GOOD against 5 of them. It's a dead card against 6 of them. But I realize the mtggoldfish metagame analysis isn't exactly representative of the actual metagame, especially for paper tournaments. For example, Merfolk and humans are not even in the top 12, but I know they will be out in force for Regionals. I think I'll keep 2 main 1 side, and cut the dismember. Thanks for the advice everyone.
I did want to ask about your decision of 3 Disdainful Strokes in the sideboard. What match ups do you bring all 3 in? Is the only match up Titanshift/Valakut? If so, I would consider changing 1 disdainful stroke into a FlashFreeze. This would allow you to still have 3 hard counters to Titanshift decks, and you can bring the FlashFreeze in for certain match ups disdainful stroke doesn't fit. Example, Elves, Burn, Green White Value Town, Counters Company.
Bantdrazi, that's a great suggestion. Yes the 3 disdainful stroke are mainly for Valakut decks to counter both the Primetime and Scapeshift, but they also come in against UW control, Ad Naus, Tron, Eldrazi Tron, and UR breach decks. But I really like switching one over to a Flashfreeze . I lose a card against UW control, but 3 disdainful in that matchup is overkill anyway, because I really want to see the Negates against UW control.
I do want to fit 1 Worship into my board somehow. I'm thinking about in the Thragtusk slot, but that takes away a card I bring in against GDS and UW control. Maybe I can put it in the Blessed Alliance slot. Or Possibly the Reclamation Sage slot. The Rec Sage is kinda random, but I like it against a lot of random decks, and it can go wild with an Eldrazi Displacer . Helps against Blood Moon too. It used to be a Natural State , but Rec Sage has higher upside and can kill a chalice of the void on 1.
I've been thinking about how poorly positioned E-Tron is starting to look and feel and momentarily started putting the missing pieces of Bant Eldrazi into a shopping cart...until I thought about the Storm matchup
Isn't Bant Eldrazi a dog to Storm though? It's kind of what kept me from wanting to try the deck out
EE looks fantastic right now, Tropical Fish is a thing, along with Humans reported to be everywhere on mtgo
Ive heard ppl say that the 'stock' sb is bad against Storm and it appears to me that that is a fair comment.
I bring in 3x Chalice, 2x RIP, 1x Relic, 1x Rec Sage and 1x Settle the Wreckage. Usually I have an answer to Goblin tokens and if I can get a lock with chalice or gy hate I win. Storm can get you with blood moon - but Ido have rec sage and 3x EE as outs - or sometimes you dont need an out if you have a threat on the board already
I'm not ready to jump to the chalice plan yet, so i'm sticking with the counter spells.
I have two open spots in my sideboard as of now, and i'm looking to make my Valakut and Storm match up better. I'm leaning towards adding a 3rd Rest in Peace and a 2nd Flashfreeze. The problem is that I feel Flashfreeze is pretty narrow, and I'm unsure if I can justify playing a second one. (Its great against Burn, counters company, Green White Value Town, Elves, possibly Jund, Green Red Ponza, and Valakut. I was also contemplating adding a potential 3rd Leyline of Sanctity, as it prevents Valakut from killing me. In the storm match up, It prevents Grapeshot from killing me and prevents the Storm player from casting Gifts Ungiven. Leyline also helps in burn, and makes it so burn players aren't allowed to cast Searing Blaze.
What is this communities opinion on Leyline of Sanctity in our sideboard? Should I be playing more, or perhaps none? Two is a bit of an awkward number to be playing. Decks usually run 3-4, or none.
Multiple copies of RIP is still just wrong. The 2nd RIP should be relic or grafdiggers at the very least. If you are that worried about storm you should probably consider Leyline instead; 1 RIP + 1 Relic + 1 Leyline is better than 3 RIP. I think Leyline is a very reasonable consideration with the right mana base (6 dorks or 10 white sources)
EE is very rarely truly a dead card. Even against Jeskai it's great for killing geists and against ETron it kills chalices. It's just valakut where it' dead.
I can understand 3 Rest In Peace being too many (and my frustration at Storm has me contemplating a 3rd) but I think 2 RIP is totally reasonable. I don't like leaning on cage because it stops the graveyard differently than Rest In Peace and often times when I want to attack the graveyard, exiling the cards seems super relevant. Whyjesse you suggested a relic instead. Is that because you value the card draw from relic, or the fact that it is a 1 drop, or that it can be found off of ancient Stirrings? I guess that's a lot of reasons to run a relic instead.(seems like it can conflict with your chalice though) I like how when I slam Rest In Peace, that's it. I don't have to think about the appropriate time to blow it up to avoid losing the game. Rest In Peace feels less negotiable than some of the other graveyard hate. Rest In Peace does the work when it enters the battlefield.
Anyway. I did have one more question about leyline of sanctity. If I change my sideboard to include a 3rd, what match ups would you bring them in against?
Burn, scapeshift, and storm for sure.
But what about abzan, jund, and death shadow. Seems great if I have it in my opening hand as it stops thoughtsieze, lily, and Inquisition, but if it's not in my opening 7, the card to me seems terrible. They thought seize my hand away and then I top deck leylines, when I need threats.
What do you all think? Only board them in against burn, scapeshift, and storm?
I personally don't like relic and don't play it. Every time I have cast it I have been underwhelmed. I just think it's a better alternative to a 2nd RIP. I've lost quite a few games where I just flood out on RIP and die. Sometimes they also have echoing truth so it's important to have different hate cards rather than multiple copies of the same. I would rather run something like Leyline, Relic, or Dismember which has utility in other matchups. If you are REALLY worried about storm I would run something like 1 Rule of Law, 1 Eidolon of Rhetoric, 1 RIP, 1 Leyline, 1 Grafdigger's. But that's super narrow.
I think Leyline comes in against Storm, Valakut, Burn, Lantern control, Ad Naus.
I haven't tested this enough but I think the 2nd and 3rd Leyline are questionable, because you aren't really gonna be mulling to find one. Your guess is as good as mine though because I haven't tested Leyline sufficiently.
I am also moving my 3rd EE to the mainboard again. It's just way too important against Affinity and Humans.
I went to SCG Regionals yesterday in San Diego, and there were a total of 161 players. I made top 8 and lost in the quarter finals to Abzan (really disappointing loss, as I feel very favored in the match up). my final standing in the event was 6th place.
My match ups were as follows.
Match 1: Esper control. Win
Match 2: U/B Scarab God Jank? Win
Match 3: U/G Merfolk Lose
Match 4: Humans Win
Match 5: Jeskai Control Win
Match 6: U/G Merfolk Win
Match 7: U/R Moon Breach Win
Match 8: Burn Win (No leylines Showed up games 2 and 3)
Top 8 Decks
Bant Eldrazi (myself) (seat number 2)
Abzan
Affinity
Affinity
U/G Merfolk (Top Seat)
Mono White Hate Bears
Storm
Abzan Counter Combo
And yes, 3 EE in the main feels more important now with Humans and U/G Merfolk on the rise.
It's valid to bring in flsahfreeze against counters company but the question is what do you cut? Skyspawner is a legitimate wincon, TKS and displacer both help you not lose, and drowner also provides you the backup plan to their backup plan (gavony/indestructible kitchen finks). I wouldn't cut stirrings because digging for EE is super important. You can only have so many reactionary cards and you need to clock them because their lategame is often better than ours.
As an aside, I've cut batterskull (again owing to not seeing UW/abzan/gbx anymore and ballista providing inevitability anyway), but batterskull is also really good against Ramunap company. Batterskull is also somewhat reasonable against counters company; yes they often can kill it with a well timed pridemage, but it gives us inevitability against the gavony/finks beatdown plan which we actually struggle with.
I'm not saying that it's incorrect for us to play it, but for me, it has very much so underperformed.
As I've mentioned before, flashfreeze and gideons intervention are both great against valakut. If you want to beat valakut you can, just by bringing in those cards. Side out all paths and EE.
Affinity is less favorable than burn... imo burn is pretty easy. Worship and chalice very often just win you the game postboard and stony silence does not, contrary to popular belief. Reshaper is good against burn but I do fine against burn without it. I would much rather use those slots for ballista to up my winrate against counters company than against burn.
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I feel like that is wrong. On both counts. Yes, storm side in empty the warrens, but that doesn't stop them from just playing the grapeshot game if they think they can or should, and even if they do go the empty path you still want their bin sealed up. There is a big difference between 12 goblins and 24 goblins.
Just my 2 cents. But I would bring in all my grave hate to maximise my chance of seeing it
Whyjesse's sideboard plan is a bit different than most of us bant eldrazi players. He runs chalice of the void. Maybe there is a concern with over boarding for the match up. If you side board in 9 cards, that means you are likely removing some number of threats.
I bring in 2 leyline of sanctity, 2 stubborn denial, 2 Rest In Peace, and 2 cage against storm (sometimes a natural state for blood moon, and have heavily contemplated bringing in flashfreeze and disdainful stroke against them. And I still don't feel I have enough hate for the deck. I was recently contemplating adding ethersworn canonist as a 1 of in my sideboard. Seems decent against the combo decks. I'd bring it in against storm, as nausum, and living end.
I think it would stop living end. If they cast a spell to cascade into living end, they can not cast the living end because it'd be a second non artifact spell. ...I think
4x TKS
4x Reality Smasher
4x Drowner
4x Displacer
3x Skyspawner
3x Matter Reshaper
4x Noble
1x BoP
4x Path
4x Ancient Stirrings
2x Engineered Explosives
1x Dismember
(1 Spell Over 60)
23 Lands
4x Eldrazi Temple
1x Temple Garden
1x Breeding Pool
1x Hallowed Fountain
3x Brushland
3x Yavimaya Coast
1x Forest
1x Plains
4x Windswept
1x Horizon Canopy
3x Cavern of Souls
2x Stony Silence
2x RiP
2x Grafdigger's Cage
1x Thragtusk
3x Disdainful Stroke
2x Negate
1x Reclamation Sage
1x Blessed Alliance
1x EE
I'm stuck on 61 cards, and not sure what to cut from the main. The options are 1 EE, 1 Dismember, 1 Skyspawner, or 1 Matter Reshaper. EE isn't great right now, but I really want them against the go wide decks, especially now that 5c Humans is becoming Popular. If I cut an EE from the main, I would probably want to move it to the board, or add something like a Worship. I could cut a 3-drop like a skyspawner or Reshaper since I'm heavy on threats at the 3 slot, but I like having both Skyspawner and Reshaper on curve there. And I also like the 5th removal spell in Dismember. Especially because we don't always have white in the early stages of the game, so Dismember is a hedge there.
Let me know if any of you folks are playing Bant Eldrazi soon, and if you have any suggestions for my list.
Bant Eldrazi
UW Control
U Merfolk
Legacy
Merfolk
UR Delver
I am also going to the Regionals this weekend.
I agree with IslandAreBroken that EE is very good for us right now, and I am surprised to hear that in your experience, it has proven to be mediocre. In my short time that I have been an active member on this forum, I have posted a few times why I also advocate 3 EE in the main. I won't reiterate my reasoning in fear of boring the majority of this community with information they have already read, but if your interested, click on my name, then "View Posts". I posted about 3 EE in the main on September 22nd. (somewhere on page 76 of this forum)
I would also say that Dismember is the card I would likely cut in your list. I played it for a small amount of time and always felt paying 20% of my starting life total was too high a cost for the removal spell # 5. I have found 4 Path to Exile and 3 EE as removal to be sufficient. In most match ups, EE can at its worst 1 for 1 your opponent. At its best, you can win against match ups you had no business winning when you 3 for 1 or better your opponent.
I did want to ask about your decision of 3 Disdainful Strokes in the sideboard. What match ups do you bring all 3 in? Is the only match up Titanshift/Valakut? If so, I would consider changing 1 disdainful stroke into a FlashFreeze. This would allow you to still have 3 hard counters to Titanshift decks, and you can bring the FlashFreeze in for certain match ups disdainful stroke doesn't fit. Example, Elves, Burn, Green White Value Town, Counters Company.
Modern: Decks I'm playing right now:
G Mono Green Tron (34-10-3 paper record, only SCG/Regionals/PPTQ record)
C Eldrazi Tron (9-5)
UG Infect
RW Burn
Isn't Bant Eldrazi a dog to Storm though? It's kind of what kept me from wanting to try the deck out
EE looks fantastic right now, Tropical Fish is a thing, along with Humans reported to be everywhere on mtgo
Chalice could help, but it comes at the cost of shutting down your own 1cmc plays.
I think Bant Eldrazi is the best EE deck, (not that it's trying to be, it just so happens that it is) it skips from 1-3cmc consistently. I did play test against U/G Merfolk and EE was still huge. I landed a Worship and my opponent scooped them up. G1 is still hard, but G2-G3 are much closer. With the meta shifting it may be correct to drop Matter Reshaper again in Lieu of 4 skyspawners to enable the T3 TKS/ Smasher more.
Modern: Decks I'm playing right now:
G Mono Green Tron (34-10-3 paper record, only SCG/Regionals/PPTQ record)
C Eldrazi Tron (9-5)
UG Infect
RW Burn
Bantdrazi, that's a great suggestion. Yes the 3 disdainful stroke are mainly for Valakut decks to counter both the Primetime and Scapeshift, but they also come in against UW control, Ad Naus, Tron, Eldrazi Tron, and UR breach decks. But I really like switching one over to a Flashfreeze . I lose a card against UW control, but 3 disdainful in that matchup is overkill anyway, because I really want to see the Negates against UW control.
I do want to fit 1 Worship into my board somehow. I'm thinking about in the Thragtusk slot, but that takes away a card I bring in against GDS and UW control. Maybe I can put it in the Blessed Alliance slot. Or Possibly the Reclamation Sage slot. The Rec Sage is kinda random, but I like it against a lot of random decks, and it can go wild with an Eldrazi Displacer . Helps against Blood Moon too. It used to be a Natural State , but Rec Sage has higher upside and can kill a chalice of the void on 1.
Ive heard ppl say that the 'stock' sb is bad against Storm and it appears to me that that is a fair comment.
I bring in 3x Chalice, 2x RIP, 1x Relic, 1x Rec Sage and 1x Settle the Wreckage. Usually I have an answer to Goblin tokens and if I can get a lock with chalice or gy hate I win. Storm can get you with blood moon - but Ido have rec sage and 3x EE as outs - or sometimes you dont need an out if you have a threat on the board already
Bant Eldrazi
UW Control
U Merfolk
Legacy
Merfolk
UR Delver
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/26-12-16-OEE-bant-eldrazi/
I'm not ready to jump to the chalice plan yet, so i'm sticking with the counter spells.
I have two open spots in my sideboard as of now, and i'm looking to make my Valakut and Storm match up better. I'm leaning towards adding a 3rd Rest in Peace and a 2nd Flashfreeze. The problem is that I feel Flashfreeze is pretty narrow, and I'm unsure if I can justify playing a second one. (Its great against Burn, counters company, Green White Value Town, Elves, possibly Jund, Green Red Ponza, and Valakut. I was also contemplating adding a potential 3rd Leyline of Sanctity, as it prevents Valakut from killing me. In the storm match up, It prevents Grapeshot from killing me and prevents the Storm player from casting Gifts Ungiven. Leyline also helps in burn, and makes it so burn players aren't allowed to cast Searing Blaze.
What is this communities opinion on Leyline of Sanctity in our sideboard? Should I be playing more, or perhaps none? Two is a bit of an awkward number to be playing. Decks usually run 3-4, or none.
EE is very rarely truly a dead card. Even against Jeskai it's great for killing geists and against ETron it kills chalices. It's just valakut where it' dead.
Anyway. I did have one more question about leyline of sanctity. If I change my sideboard to include a 3rd, what match ups would you bring them in against?
Burn, scapeshift, and storm for sure.
But what about abzan, jund, and death shadow. Seems great if I have it in my opening hand as it stops thoughtsieze, lily, and Inquisition, but if it's not in my opening 7, the card to me seems terrible. They thought seize my hand away and then I top deck leylines, when I need threats.
What do you all think? Only board them in against burn, scapeshift, and storm?
I think Leyline comes in against Storm, Valakut, Burn, Lantern control, Ad Naus.
I haven't tested this enough but I think the 2nd and 3rd Leyline are questionable, because you aren't really gonna be mulling to find one. Your guess is as good as mine though because I haven't tested Leyline sufficiently.
I am also moving my 3rd EE to the mainboard again. It's just way too important against Affinity and Humans.
My match ups were as follows.
Match 1: Esper control. Win
Match 2: U/B Scarab God Jank? Win
Match 3: U/G Merfolk Lose
Match 4: Humans Win
Match 5: Jeskai Control Win
Match 6: U/G Merfolk Win
Match 7: U/R Moon Breach Win
Match 8: Burn Win (No leylines Showed up games 2 and 3)
Top 8 Decks
Bant Eldrazi (myself) (seat number 2)
Abzan
Affinity
Affinity
U/G Merfolk (Top Seat)
Mono White Hate Bears
Storm
Abzan Counter Combo
And yes, 3 EE in the main feels more important now with Humans and U/G Merfolk on the rise.
Didn't get a chance to play at regionals but preparing for rptqs. Debating getting a leyline.