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
I was watching a crap ton of vids from Ghash, he's definitely not happy to see Bant Eldrazi. His sideboarding has looked something like this
+2 Anger of the gods (if you run Skyspawner)
+All Fatal pushes come in
-1 K Command out
-2 Mishra Bauble
-3 to 4 tarfires
He made it clear that Drowner of Hope ABSOLUTELY cannot come down, you basically win on the spot if you do, they can't handle you tapping down their creatures and coming in like that.
Chalice is so so, it's not as effective as you believe. They're pinging down their life the first few turns anyway, they have the Decay and the K-Commands. They also run 8 discard
If you land Worship, it's also game, no Death Shadow lists run enchantment hate, the 75 is already too tight to squeeze one in. If you can avoid having it in your opening hand, you're good. Do not keep a mediocre to crappy hand just because worship is in your opening hand, they're effectively running a 52 card deck and there's a good chance you'll be blown out if you put all your eggs in that basket for an opening hand. Death shadow is going to look to stripping you of Drowners or killing you before you drop it
EE is a huge blowout, Shadow decks are going to extend because they can't afford to sit around or play cautiously while you drop 4/4s and 5/5s
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
+2 Anger of the gods (if you run Skyspawner)
+All Fatal pushes come in
-1 K Command out
-2 Mishra Bauble
-3 to 4 tarfires
He made it clear that Drowner of Hope ABSOLUTELY cannot come down, you basically win on the spot if you do, they can't handle you tapping down their creatures and coming in like that.
Chalice is so so, it's not as effective as you believe. They're pinging down their life the first few turns anyway, they have the Decay and the K-Commands. They also run 8 discard
If you land Worship, it's also game, no Death Shadow lists run enchantment hate, the 75 is already too tight to squeeze one in. If you can avoid having it in your opening hand, you're good. Do not keep a mediocre to crappy hand just because worship is in your opening hand, they're effectively running a 52 card deck and there's a good chance you'll be blown out if you put all your eggs in that basket for an opening hand. Death shadow is going to look to stripping you of Drowners or killing you before you drop it
EE is a huge blowout, Shadow decks are going to extend because they can't afford to sit around or play cautiously while you drop 4/4s and 5/5s
I own Jund and Junk, is there a reason to buy into Bant Eldrazi?
What's the consensus on the popular good matchups and bad matchups? What archetypes is Eldrazi good and bad against?
How is the Tron matchup, does Tron ***** on this deck like every green deck, or is it more like a 40/60 matchup?