Quote from yannzup »Quote from domah »So nothing can beat eldrazi? top tier deck, no weaknesses, well, cya in the next ban list then...I hope...
Stop thinking this deck is broken, it is not. RG valakut deck beat us, merfolk do it, affinity is not a great MU, the deck has many weaknesses, and it will not eat the ban hammer
Eldrazi has many strong sideboard options open to it and thus it can pick and choose who to lose to. Generally Eldrazi will have tough matchups against ramp decks like RG Valakut (breach seems easier to beat then the other variants), RG Tron (you have to get lucky and hope your sideboard and TKS can get you there), RG Ponza (this seems always like auto lose - I once won by using EE to continually blow up there mana accelerants).
Recently I've been testing 3 GQ and 3 Surgical extraction's from the sb - with the view that I'll have a better strategy against Valakut, Tron and Dredge. I've really liked extracting tron lands and valakut - the mana base is somewhat compromised though (with three GQ's) - so it's not for the feint of heart..
I think the deck is very weak to Collected Company and Chord of Calling decks - I don't run any Cage (I play surgicals, RIP instead) - however this deck appears fairly uncommon atm.
Anyway the decks that completely wreck my build of Eldrazi are:
Elves
Abzan CoCo Combo
Bant Coralhelm CoCo Combo
RG Ponza
UW Control (3-4 x Cryptics; 4x Verdict/Wrath; Finks/walls; runed halo; Gideon, Big Elspeth etc)
Decks that are somewhat favoured against my build are:
Blood Moon decks (we have many outs to blood moon - this can go either way - but Eldrazi is generally unfavoured)
Merfolk
RG Valakut, BTL shift, RG Tron (although with 3 GQ and 3 surgical it seems like its getting close to even)
Affinity (sb dependent, seems close to 50%)
Lantern
Hatebears
Favourable matchups:
Burn
Infect
Dredge
Sui Zoo
Whacker Zoo
Sui Bloo
BGx
Ux (no or low numbers of Verdicts, Cryptic)
Grixis Delver (depends though on how many Young Pyromancers and Blood Moons they play)
Bogles
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