I started with Grove and then transitioned to Karplusan Forest. Giving opponents life was more relevant than taking damage with Bolts and Reality Smashers.

Thank you for the reply Jordan.

So, yeah, it feels a little Eldrazi Eye “nuked” version.

The only thing that separates this deck from the colour builds is Chalice for 1.

It wrecks so many decks that it feels like a safety valve on the deck, to not care about Path, Bolt, Hierarch, Serum Visions, Infect, Burn, etc,etc.

It is by far the only card that makes me want to play this instead of Bant, which is my option number 1 for my country´s nationals.

I will keep testing, but right now, i feel this is better to beat Affinity, Infect, Burn, RG Tron and Jeskai, which are the main decks of my area.

Bant lacks the reach of Chalice, so Affinity and Infect become somewhat of a problem G1, that´s where the 3 color SB comes in.

If i run this and win(or at least win most rounds) the nationals, i will totally encourage the Eldrazi players out there to play this!

It´s so nice to keep playing Thought-Knot Seer again!

I like your suggest changes a lot. When I first started messing around with Eldrazi Chalice builds, which was around the time OGW was spoiled, I went to Thorn first. I quickly cut it because it doesn’t do much in Modern, as you’ve found out yourself. I also have experimented with Vesuva and other options for colorless lands since the Eye ban and been largely unimpressed, so I’ve usually opted to splash colors for better cards than Eldrazi Mimic instead of running sub-par colorless lands and playing a “nuked” Eye deck from last Modern season. But I do think there’s a place of Colorless Eldrazi Stompy in the current Modern. My favorite builds I’ve been working on have returned to black, running four Urborgs main and a set of Lilianas. Guide + Urborg gives you the dreaded turn two Liliana that got Deathrite Shaman banned! Also, I wouldn’t leave home without a set of Dismembers in this deck.

Good luck!

Everyone has their pet cards. Luckily for me, Tarmogoyf is a card you don’t need to try very hard to make work in Modern, since he’s so high above the curve for a two-mana creature. Now, if I had an obsession with Training Grounds…

I want to ask you some questions regarding Eldrazi builds.

I´ve been toying with a Colorless Eldrazi build i found on mtggoldfish.

The deck has been very good to my surprise, it has explosiveness, and it locks the opponent out of the game with classic Colorless tools, like Chalice.

Here´s the list for context purposes: http://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/417500#paper

I have won most of my matches against; Infect, Burn, Affinity and some control decks like Jeskai Nahiri.

The only card that may be not worth it is Thorn of Amethyst, which is good in Legacy because Ancient Tomb?).

My modification if i were to play in a tournament tomorrow would be:

-4 Thorn, -2 Warping Wail, .1 Vesuva, -2 Phyrexian Metamorph? (im not sold on this one yet)
+ 4 Dismember, + 2 Ratchet Bomb, +1 Urborg, + 2 Spellskite

I would appreciate some feedback, at least what you think of the list, maybe you like it, i can say it´s powerful if played tightly.

Thanks!!

So jamming Goyf into everything (for example) might be a shaky proposition when taken individually as a single brew, but over time it could really pave the way for some powerful and unexpected brews.

Likewise, cards such as dark confidant deserve to see more play and it’s only a matter of running the permutations in order to discover something unique and powerful, despite having to work through a pile of unsuccessful decks beforehand.

Cheers for the article, it was fun.

It’s actually not in the Bolt/Path list. I don’t like Traverse unless we can turn it on really fast, like in TarmoDrazi.

D’oh! Ignore my above post, I somehow missed that Traverse was already in the list. /facepalm

I think Nahiri is probably better in the Eldrazi deck than anything blue can offer, including Stubborn Denial. But go for it and report back!

I really love Tarmogoyf in any interactive shell with red and green. Bolting a creature and following up with Tarmogoyf is incredibly powerful in Modern. So is fetching for a land, cantripping, and casting a Bolt-proof Goyf on turn two. That play alone allows archetypes like Temur Delver and (formerly) Temur Twin to reliably “get under” counterspell walls, or to start pressuring opponents early while interacting with them. Goyf also gets really pretty large here thanks to Nahiri and Oath of Nissa.

So far, shuffling the ‘Yard with Emrakul and shrinking Goyfs has not been problematic for me. Nahiri doesn’t even force us to loot when she +2s, and we can choose to discard something other than Emrakul if we really want to keep our Goyfs huge. I have shrunk them a bunch of times in testing, but that’s because I wanted to shuffle Emrakul into the deck to ultimate with her next turn. At that point, it doesn’t matter if Tarmogoyf can be Bolted. (This deck interacts so much that he’s unlikely to be Boltable just because of our opponent’s Graveyard, but either way, opponents will want to throw Bolt at Nahiri if we’re shrinking Goyfs to tick her up.)

I don’t like Ooze here because it can be killed the turn it comes down. You’re right that we want to be casting Eldrazi later in the game (turns 3+). That means we don’t really want to lay Ooze and have to hold up a bunch of green mana. Let’s just play Reality Smasher! But on turn two, Reality Smasher isn’t an option. Tarmogoyf even outgrows Smasher in this deck and is an “Eldrazi” himself in that he’s way larger than the other creatures played in Modern.

I’ve seen the Bant lists and think Tribe Elder is actually pretty sweet in these decks. He allows for turn three Nahiris or Thought-Knots and gets around removal. I just prefer Goyf right now because of its “synergy” with Nahiri – I think the ‘walker is best when we have great threats on the board protecting her.

As for the manabase, I actually do play a Wastes, for the exact reason you mentioned (scroll up!). So far, the cantrips have helped me get to my colors enough. But we do have painlands as an option if we start finding the manabase too inconsistent.

The question is what can replace it? Some bant lists have run Sakura-Tribe elder for ramp, fixing and a fog. Qasali Pridemage would be interesting in that its an effective beater without needing graveyard interaction and could help your game one against Affinity and in conjunction with bolt might make game 1 winnable.

Scavenging Ooze, again, provides a hatebear that also gains life and is going to be better late game then a goyf as it will likely be able to eat multiple creatures over a turn or two. Lightning Helix also helps a lot against hyper aggro decks game 1 (Infect especially as they can largely go over a goyf). Spellskite also helps a lot with these matchups.

Just some thoughts, I look forward to hearing about how testing goes.

Good call, Drowner is pretty sweet! As for Eldrazi’s supposed aggro weakness, Eldrazi Harbinger can also run Lightning Helix if that problem persists, though casting it might be a hassle. Then there’s… Ajani Vengeant?!

Mana dorks are the next thing I’m testing. Hierarch into Thought-Knot is super good and can definitely exist outside of Bant Aggro variants. In fact, when I started brewing Eldrazi Hatebear lists, I found the GW version to be stronger than BW for that reason (more info about that deck in the article, linked above).

As for clearing out blockers, I haven’t found it to be too difficult with eight great removal spells AND four Nahiris. Nahiri and Path take care of bigger threats like Tarmogoyf really well, but fields of 1/1s can get in the way. I think running a bunch of Kozilek’s Return in the side is better to address that issue than running Displacer.

In all seriousness, though, Naya Harbinger Eldrazi looks like it could be a contender. It’s not as soft to fast aggro as RG Eldrazi can be (Bolts + Paths + blockers help sew that weakness shut nicely), and it has a higher top-end game than Bant Eldrazi (albeit not quite as smooth an early game). Are mana dorks of any kind worth considering here to get you off the ground faster and provide fixing? Should Eldrazi Displacer be considered in the sideboard as a way to clear out blockers?