I mean, Thoughtseize isn’t *bad* against the deck, but it’s not backbreaking. Most other decks in Modern have hate cards that are just really tough to beat, and Thoughtseize just isn’t that kind of card. The Eldrazi deck still gets a draw step, and it can cast all the spells in the deck very quickly.

Magus does have six toughness, though costing four is a real problem. I’m really not concerned about anything other than degenerate combo decks playing Eldrazi.

I’ve been playing the same 60 card for card, but messing around with the sideboard. I’ve upped the Relics to four as well as Stubborn Denial to combat things like Living End and Goryo’s Vengeance. I cut the Hurkyl’s Recalls because I’m not convinced that Affinity can’t just be beat with Dismember, Gut Shots and a clock.

People who are trying to beat Eldrazi lose hard to the non-Eldrazi decks… and also lose hard to the actual Eldrazi decks.

Whatever your flavor of Eldrazi you pick, the deck is insanely powerful. I tend to be on the side of “give it time, we’ll find an answer, or the meta will adjust to put enough hate on the deck to push it out.” Well, that hasn’t happened yet. It’s still less than 2 weeks out from the PT, but I have yet to see anything to put the brakes on the deck.

Blood Moon in the main? Pff, ok, I’ll just have to win with this 4/4 and this 5/5 I already have while you skipped your 3rd turn.

Painter? You realize I’m playing 4 Dismember and some Ratchet Bombs maindeck right?

We’ll see how it pans out, but right now I just think it’s our duty to keep playing busted Eldrazi decks so we can get a card banned, and get the whole thing over with.

Magus also costs 4, which may as well be 100 against Eldrazi.

Would you make any changes to the list moving forward (especially relative to the cards you changed from Tao’s list)?

What are your thoughts on Magus of the Tabernacle? I was excited about it until I remembered Dismember.

LOL!

Thanks, Ryan. I always appreciate your articles.