Because of this article I put together titanshift with 4 Eldrazi temples, 1 wastes, 1 kessig wolf run, 4 TKS, and 3 reality smashers.

It’s been great. The TKS is the kind of disruption the deck needs, while smasher provides an aggressive body that is almost as threatening as prime time.

The best part is that between the Samurai Tribe Elders, Searches for Tomorrow, rampant growths (no money for fetches so no khalni heart garden) and a single wastes a t3 TKS is incredibly consistent.

Just wanted to let you know that even months after being published this article is still inspiring new decks

I tend to agree. With Eye gone, Thought-Knot, Reshaper, and Smasher are still phenomenal cards.

If they ban eye then id say these decks are playable – so we’ll see after April 4 I guess

That’s pretty much how I feel at this point, but it remains to be seen whether there’s a space for Hatebears strategies in the coming metagame. It’s far too early to call all other decks unplayable.

I haven’t really got around to testing alternatives in the Finks slot, looking heavily at what we saw over the weekend with the pro tour I think Finks offers up a solid body for chumping Eldrazi while maintaining a reasonable life total. I’m sticking to my GWru version with MD Magus of the Moon, Staticaster and Phantasmal Image for the time being and will probably focus on the changes I need to make there before dedicating more time to this version.

First thing to note, vialing a flickerwisp and then casting a strangler, processing the flickerwisp target and killing a dude makes me very happy everytime i pull it off. It doesn’t happen very often but when it happens, it feels so good!

The main issue i’ve had is the mana. Double white, white black and colorless mana costs are hard to balance when building the mana base, especially with 4x temples and 4x GQ. Blade splicer might be better than finks for this simple reason. Caves of koilos and fetid heath are also good steps toward fixing this.

Well, that’s definitely been a roaring success. Here’s a mono-W Death & Taxes-style list I put together based on what you’ve posted:

Death, Taxes & Eldrazi v1

Artifacts (4):
4 Æther Vial

Creatures (30):
2 Blade Splicer
4 Dryad Militant
2 Eldrazi Displacer
4 Flickerwisp
2 Kitchen Finks
4 Leonin Arbiter
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Thought-Knot Seer

Instants (4):
4 Path to Exile

Lands (22):
4 Ghost Quarter
2 Horizon Canopy
10 Plains
2 Sea Gate Wreckage
4 Tectonic Edge

Sideboard (15):
2 Aven Mindcensor
2 Disenchant
4 Kor Firewalker
1 Mark of Asylum
2 Rest in Peace
2 Spellskite
2 Stony Silence

The Eldrazi additions along with Sea Gate Wreckage fix some of Death & Taxes’ major weaknesses (attrition decks grinding them out of resources and “big aggro” decks outclassing them on the ground) while providing effects (such as evasion, hand disruption, and repeatable blinking) they previously did not have access to. It remains to be seen whether I want all 4 of Matter Reshaper, but I think this is a strong place to start.

This is sweet! You don’t find the deck a little combo-heavy with Finks and Displacer? Have you thought about a singleton Thought-Knot to Chord into on your opponent’s draw step? Grove also does a great job casting him.

I also prefer GW. Forgot to mention in the article, but Hierarch makes turn two Thought-Knot even more consistent. These lists are pretty raw, and mostly intended as a launch pad for other brewers. But I also think there’s some real potential here!

I would also posit that you don’t even need Eldrazi Temple to reap the benefits on some of these creatures if you don’t want to stretch your mana base too much – they’re plenty good when cast on curve or helped along by a mana dork (though of course the Temples help). Because of this, I find myself favoring the GW version. Oath of Nissa is certainly interesting (I don’t know if it will stick, but it’s worth a try), and Tarmogoyf seems a touch odd given all of the exile effects in the deck. That said, the Eternal Witness/Kitchen Finks/Matter Reshaper value chains along with Eldrazi Displacer make me think that this deck has a significant midrange component compared to “classic” Hatebears.

I would have really liked to have seen a mono-W version as well – the “classic” Death & Taxes (not to be confused with Hatebears) list is mono-W, and it would have allowed you to stuff more creatures that made your honorable mention list into the deck. It also makes for a less painful manabase.