Bant Eldrazi

Modern GWUB

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Land (23)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 3x Brushland
• 3x Cavern of Souls
• 4x Eldrazi Temple
• 2x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Temple Garden
• 3x Windswept Heath
• 3x Yavimaya Coast

Creature (29)

• 4x Ancient Stirrings
• 3x Drowner of Hope
• 4x Eldrazi Displacer
• 3x Eldrazi Skyspawner
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 3x Matter Reshaper
• 4x Noble Hierarch
• 3x Reality Smasher
• 4x Thought-Knot Seer

Artifact (4)

• 2x Engineered Explosives
• 2x Talisman of Progress

Instant (4)

• 4x Path to Exile

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Instant (13)

• 1x Blessed Alliance
• 1x Disdainful Stroke
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Dromoka's Command
• 1x Flashfreeze
• 1x Fracturing Gust
• 1x Natural State
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Spatial Contortion
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Unified Will

Land (3)

• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 1x Spawning Bed

Creature (12)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ethersworn Canonist
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Obstinate Baloth
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Reflector Mage
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Thragtusk
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x World Breaker

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
• 1x Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Artifact (7)

• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Chalice of the Void
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Talisman of Unity

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Stony Silence
• 1x Training Grounds
• 1x Worship

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Sylvan Scrying

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Bant Eldrazi, pretty standard list here honestly. I'll briefly discuss any notable differences with "Stock" lists.

The Shell:

• 4 Eldrazi Temple
• 4 Noble
• 4 Stirrings
• 4 Path
• 4 Displacer
• 4 TKS
• 4 Smasher
• 3 Drowner

Flex:

2 EE, 2 Talisman, 2 Skyspawner, 2 Reshaper, 1 Dismember/Blessed Alliance, 1 Spellskite 1 Ghost Quarter

General Playing Strategy:

• Mulligan aggressively into "Gas", but don't be afraid to take a more controlling route as the game goes on using Displacer and Drowner.
• Displacer and TKS (or a lot of stuff) on upkeep is a nice soft lock as well.
• Don't overextend your smashers.
• Noble is nice, but Noble is vulnerable, lean too heavy on him for a hand and expect to get wrecked.

Lands:

• Onslaught basics. Show some respect.
• I hate seeing 2 Caverns in the same game as it makes me way too reliant on a Noble living to cast important stuff like Path or Stirrings, 3 seems good enough if I need them.
• 4 fetches makes burn / aggro suck a whole bunch, cut one and add a Ghost Quarter bc its nice to have if you need it. GQ is my utility land of choice over Sea Gate Wreckage or anything stupid like Gemstone Caverns.
• I like a 3/3 split on Brushland and Yavimaya Coasts. You need blue essentially as much as you need white. I also don't like relying solely on Cavern for mana fixing because it can't cast your sideboard cards, specifically the counterspells.
• No basic Island! Just no, what are you gonna do with that in your opener? Lose. That's what.
• 2 Talismans... The blood moon comes and goes and Nobles are such an easy target. They hurt no doubt, which is why you especially can't go up to 4 fetches.

La Beef:

• 3 Drowners. You only want three with 23 lands. Probably the best creature you break open the game I'll admit, but you can find them with Stirrings if you need one. I never like seeing them in my opener.
• 2/2 Reshaper/Skyspawner. If Blood Moon isn't something you want to worry about or if aggro is just everywhere, then this becomes 3/3 and we drop the painful talismans. I don't think its correct to go 4/0 either way unless you explicitly know the meta.

Playing Fair:

• 4 Stirrings. See what I did there.

Flex slots:

• 2 EE is still always correct in my opinion, too versatile and its tutorable.
• 1 Blessed Alliance. Admittedly I just want to try one main over Dismember bc I hate losing all that life and because Spatial Contortion feels too "meh", even though its tutorable targeted removal.

Sideboard:

• I like to have targets that I can dig for with Ancient Stirrings. I know RIP etc are great, but being able to have "extra" copies of sideboard cards feels much stronger to me than the individual sideboard cards themselves.
• Relic > RIP and 2 Cages - 4 cards for graveyard shenanigans, and you can Stirrings for them. Have I mentioned that this is important to me?
• 2 Blessed Alliance: Card is nuts when you need it. This helps hedge against infect and burn and random shit like bogles or Etched Champion. Solid everywhere.
• 2 Stony Silence: Nothing else is this good against Affinity or Lantern or Tron, I typically want 3 since I can't dig for them.
• 1 Worship: More of a slap in the face of shit that's not ready for it. This is why I run the next card over Natural State.
• 2 Nature's Claim: Everything... Plus with Talismans and Spellskite you can even gain some life in the clutch. Kills Worship in the mirror. Its always important to win the mirror.
• 3 Counterspells: I honestly don't know what to do with these bastards. I love them and I hate them. With more combo coming about, they are a necessity. Currently I like 2 Stubborn Denial and 1 Disdainful Stroke. Other than Liliana of the Veil these also cover all the problem planeswalkers and having a house against Big Mana doesn't feel bad either. I see a lot of people argue for going heavy on counters in the side. I haven't tried it, but currently I'm leaning towards LESS counters because in general they are just bad right now.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	46 - 0 Rares 4 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.65
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C
Folders	Modern