Eld-RACK-zi

Standard* 8-Rack Discard Eldrazi Mono-Black

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Land (25)

• 4x Aether Hub
• 4x Island
• 4x Ruins of Oran-Rief
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 2x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 4x Sunken Hollow
• 6x Swamp

Creature (16)

• 3x Distended Mindbender
• 4x Matter Reshaper
• 4x Mindmelter
• 2x Reality Smasher
• 3x Thought-Knot Seer

Instant (10)

• 4x Fatal Push
• 3x Grasp of Darkness
• 3x Warping Wail

Sorcery (8)

• 3x Harsh Scrutiny
• 1x Pick the Brain
• 1x Remorseless Punishment
• 3x Transgress the Mind

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Vessel of Malignity

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Sideboard

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Flaying Tendrils
• 2x Remorseless Punishment
• 1x Ruinous Path

Creature (7)

• 4x Fathom Feeder
• 3x Ulamog's Nullifier

Instant (2)

• 2x To the Slaughter

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Okay, so not really a rack situation per se, but certainly hand disruption with cards that pay off when your opponent is top-decking. Namely Remorseless Punishment and Reality Smasher.

The basic idea for this deck is to control the board early, get in a few points of damage, or deplete opponent's hand. Bearer of Silence and Hangarback Walker are both decent early-game creatures that don't lose value as the game progresses. Dead Weight, Collective Brutality, Warping Wail (massively underrated card especially because it exiles 1 power OR toughness creatures) and Transgress the Mind all work to do this. Both Warping Wail and Transgress the Mind provide fodder for Wasteland Strangler's -3/-3 trigger, which is a game-changer. Early to mid-game support from Grasp of Darkness depending on what gets on the board.

Hand disruption and early game creature hate (t1 and t2) give way to Matter Reshaper or Wasteland Strangler t3 curving into a t4 sac-and-cast via emerge for Distended Mindbender (best case scenario) or straight play of Thought-Knot Seer both of which keep thinning opponent's hand while also giving you beefy bodies on the board. In an ideal world, this all curves into t5 Reality Smasher. I have a singleton Remorseless Punishment in the deck because I have a soft spot for that card and I want it to work so badly. With all the discard and hand-disruption in the deck, there's times where it's 10 pts of direct dmg for 5 cmc.

Sideboard needs a bit of work, but wanted to be able to do a few things: Can board in Tormented Thoughts and another Remorseless Control to really get the rack juices flowing; To the Slaughter and Ruinous Path for more planeswalker/big creature hate; Virulent Plague for the always annoying tokens that want to spread wide; Duress for control-based decks and more hand disruption; and lastly Languish as a safety net of sorts.

Lupine Prototype is suuuuuper interesting, but can't quite see how to make it fit.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Unmitigated deck hate?

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	24 - 9 Rares 22 - 5 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.00
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Energy Reserve
Based on	Competitive Black Control Tammy STD