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My take on Bant Eldrazi. Decided to put the budget I had on Engineered Explosives instead of the Noble Hierarch since Birds of Paradise can do the job as well. We are just losing a few free damage here and there maybe.

The second tribe I like the most after Dragons are Eldrazi. I know a lot of people had more than enough of them during the Eldrazi Winter, but I still like them. I've been holding my playset of Thought-Knot Seer and Reality Smasher for a while now and decided to unlock the funds and buy what I was missing to make Bant Eldrazi. Like I said above, I decided to cut the Noble Hierarch and put my budget on cards that had more impact or were not/less replaceable.

I won't break down the deck here as you can easily find various guides on the inter-webs, from deck building to sideboard guides. What I can do is explain cards I'd like to try in the deck:

  • Boreal Druid instead of the Pilgrim. I feel like having access to to cast Thought-Knot and Smasher when Blood Mooned is better than being able to cast Path to Exile.

  • Deepfathom Skulker instead of the 4th Drowner of Hope or Elder Deep-Fiend. Maybe 2 of them. I feel like drawing cards from Smashers or Skyspawner would be nice. Also, sometimes there is just too many blockers and saccing Eldrazi scion to tap blockers isn't possible. Replacing all the Drowner isn't probably a good idea since you can tap-out and just saccing scions. (Little anecdote: I survived for 3 turns against an Emrakul, the Aeon Thorns by tapping it. I kind of already have a few feelings for Drowner of Hope)

  • Metallic Mimic instead of I really don't know yet. I could maybe get a skyspawner down and a land for this little guy. I guess that's what Noble Hierarch is good for, in gets your Eldrazi bigger, in addition to just occupy the mana dork slot instead of an extra one.

  • Obstinate Baloth in the sideboard. For gaining life, and having a trump card against Jund and Mirror matches. Being able to target an opponent's Reality Smasher with a Path to Exile and getting down the Baloth instead of being punished.

  • Tamiyo, Field Researcher. She is sitting in my binder, she is bant, she draw cards and tap stuff, I feel like I could find a room somewhere. I also feel like isn't the easiest to get without paining myself for 2-3.

  • Wastes. I can't understand why every single list I checked was never running at least one to be able to fetch when being Pathed and/or for not being completely screwed by a Blood Moon. Maybe it just destabilizes the mana base too much.

  • Ajani Unyielding. Also sitting in my binder. It's card draw and removal.

I'll update when I will get some results though I'm still learning the deck and will probably run the current list for a couple times still.

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Got my second FPush. 2 to go

2-0 Jund Death Shadow: I haven't lost yet to DS, and this was it wasn't any different. First game, Thought-Knot to discard what's relevant, he top decked a Terminate, then attacked me with a Tarmo. He was at 7 (all by shock lands and fetches), and I top decked a Smasher, he was at 2. He didn't attacked, and I drew a Displacer which I was able to cast and activate. Game. Second match, Temple Temple TKS, Rest in peace. RIP.

2-1 Infect: It was my first time playing against Infect, the deck wasn't part of the meta anymore when I first started playing Bant Eldrazi in April 2017. Lost first match. The 2 others were well fought. I got lucky that my opponent had not played in a year or so and wasn't aware that Blessed Alliance was a card. I had one in my hand in game two but didn't have to cast it to win, so it was a total surprise in game 3 and allowed me to steal the game.

0-2 Jund Death Shadow: Ah, that's what you get for bragging being undefeated by DS. I didn't get to draw any of my sideboard cards. Both game, which I get to stabilize, my opponent cast a Liliana, the Last Hope and steals the game.

2-1 Jeskai Control Blade Splicer (one of my friend's): There was an error in the registration of previous results, my friend was 3-0 and I was 2-1 and was matched with him. He won first match. I won the second with a Worship into play. A smasher and drowner attacking. He was planning to survive the turn with Deflecting Palm but I just drew a Stubborn Denial and got the game. We had 3 minutes for the last round. He had a pretty slow start, I went Displacer T2 (5 active turns), Smasher T3, Smasher T4 for lethal but he countered it, he ended up at 2 life, then at his turn didn't have anything, it was the end of the 5 active turns, so it was technically a draw. He was really kind and gave me the match nonetheless because I would have won at my turn. We both ended up getting our Fatal Push. So in a certain way, it was kind of cool to be matched with him since playing against someone else, that person could have decided to keep it a draw and secure his promo.

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Revision 15 See all

(6 years ago)

-1 Blessed Alliance side
+1 Ceremonious Rejection side
-1 Engineered Explosivesfoil side
+1 Negate side
+1 Reclamation Sage side
-1 World Breaker side
Date added 7 years
Last updated 6 years
Legality

This deck is Modern legal.

Rarity (main - side)

5 - 2 Mythic Rares

39 - 5 Rares

6 - 6 Uncommons

8 - 2 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 2.76
Tokens Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C
Folders My decks
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