Hey Odin, was good to meet you in Worcester and talk Colorless. Missed this post but wanted to address something you said publicly: I agree that Ballista makes things way better for ET than they used to be, but hold that the deck has a shaky Affinity matchup relative to the other two Eldrazi decks covered here. In hindsight, I wish I had made the “relative to the other decks” bit more clear, as this article has generated quite a bit of backlash in the Eldrazi communities I follow for some of the matchup assessments!

I’ve been trying out this eldrazi stompy deck online and I have to say it’s worked a lot better as a “meta deck” than I would have expected. Its interaction with online nightmares such as deaths shadow, cheerios, and burn turn those matchups into cakewalks and feel massively rewarding. I am very seriously considering taking this list to the upcoming titanium series in worcester, and would like to know if there are any changes you would make to the deck going forward. The options I was most looking to was a move of 1 to 2 relics from the sb into the main to address deaths shadow, dredge (with the outlook that it will have an uptick) and the control matchups.
Unlike your experience, I have had more trouble with esper and UW control, in which the main issue has been utilizing eternal scourge. I have been bringing in relics for these reasons, but they have largely been underwhelming inclusions. There was a comment posted on another article that suggested the inclusion of cavern of souls over another utility land, but I wasn’t completely sold on it, given that each control deck (except grixis) tends to disrupt lands anyway.
This essentially leads me to believe I am just playing the matchup wrong, but I’m curious to know if there are any decisions you’ve felt were important to that matchup.
Thanks!

Glad to see the deck getting better 🙂

Mono White E&T top 8ed GP Vancouver. Going Vial-less seemed to shore up some of the weaknesses you mentioned. The version that top 8ed was more value-oriented than the old disruption-oriented variants.

E&T may play some Eldrazi, but like you said, it’s not an Eldrazi deck. It’s a Hatebears deck. These decks have fundamentally different gameplans so I don’t feel comfortable including E&T in this hyper-focused piece on the pros and cons of each Modern Eldrazi deck in relation to one another.

But honestly I don’t think the deck is viable anymore. Modern has evolved past it. If you want to play Thought-Knot Seer in a well-rounded, fair deck, just play Bant Eldrazi. Stirrings lets that deck disrupt more reliably with Explosives, hit its curve and power cards more often, and find bullets after siding. E&T is often at the mercy of its topdecks and is much easier to disrupt significantly (Moon also hoses this deck and a removal spell on Vial frequently puts games away; besides, Bolt/Push/Path are awesome against E&T and significantly weaker vs Bant).

What results are you referring to when you say the deck is reasonably successful?