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Alien Zoo: Colorless Eldrazi Stompy Post-SSG Ban

Jordan Boisvert — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:00:30 +0000

On February 15, 2021, Wizards banned a card near and dear to my heart: Simian Spirit Guide. The Asking-for-It Ape was featured prominently in my go-to Modern deck, Colorless Eldrazi Stompy, which must mutate dramatically if it is to keep pace in the format. With a week of testing under my belt, I'm ready to […]

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Fool Me Once: Introducing GR Eldrazi Stompy

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 17:00:03 +0000

Just when I figure out an Oko shell I like, Wizards drops the hammer on the card I'd built around! Not that I think Oko was particularly balanced in Modern; I did endorse the walker as my candidate of choice as face of the 2020 metagame, after all. Fortunately for me, plenty more Modern game-changers […]

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Colorless Matchup Guide: Hogaak and Dredge

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:00:29 +0000

Hogaak has been nerfed by a Bridge from Below ban, but the deck is still out in force. While its apparent volatility may contribute to a plummeting of metagame shares in the near future, I personally know many players who continue to swear by the strategy. And Dredge is also on the upswing, profiting from players' […]

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Real Friends: Horizons Pet-Deck Update

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:00:29 +0000

It's maybe been said to the point of platitude at this point, but Modern is a format that rewards deck mastery. At least for me, it's also way more fun when you can find a deck that ticks all your preference boxes. I've been playing Eldrazi Stompy since Thought-Knot Seer was spoiled, and Counter-Cat since […]

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Karn, the Great Creator in Colorless Eldrazi

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 16:00:52 +0000

A year ago, Colorless Eldrazi Stompy received a potent new tool in Zhalfirin Void. I described the card's potential for the archetype in detail, cursing Karn, Scion of Urza under my breath in the intro paragraph. In War of the Spark, the deck is all set to receive yet another potential game-changer, if a less […]

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Brew Report: March Metagaming Madness

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:00:58 +0000

Is Modern solved? Is Modern stale? Any amount of time spent on a Magic forum or subreddit these days seems to offer countless arguments from both sides of the debate. Indeed, this Phoenix/Dredge/Stirrings (in that order) metagame has proven the most divisive I can remember since Siege Rhino briefly served as hyper-acting format manager in […]

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Lightning, London, Linguine: ‘Manders and Mulls

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:00:49 +0000

Four weeks after proposing a UR Delver shell with Ptermanader, I've got some insights to share. And I also have more than a few words on Wizards' newly-proposed mulligan rule, which has considerable implications for Modern—and for Colorless Eldrazi Stompy. 'Manders As soon as "Salamander Drake" was spoiled, I set to work on UR Delver, […]

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Colorless Eldrazi Stompy at SCG Regionals

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:00:22 +0000

After a lengthy hiatus from playing the deck, I brought Colorless Eldrazi Stompy to SCG Regionals last weekend, and duked it out with around 250 players over nine rounds of Modern. I ended up finishing in 9th place. Despite my Top 8 miss, it was exhilarating to again play Colorless at this level. This report […]

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Colorless Matchup Guide: Burn and Infect

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:00:09 +0000

Along with Affinity, Burn and Infect once made up the Holy Trinity of blitzing wins in Modern. Times have certainly changed. The Affinity we knew now relinquishes most of its shares to Hardened Scales; Infect's loss of Gitaxian Probe and inherent softness to Fatal Push put a serious dent in its former reign; Burn has […]

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Colorless Matchup Guide: Jeskai and UW Control

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:00:50 +0000

"Control is dead" has long been a mantra of those unsatisfied with Modern. But UWx control decks have had impressive showings lately on the competitive circuit—just last weekend, both Jeskai Control and UW Control made Top 8 at GP Prague and SCG Baltimore, respectively. Thanks to Search for Azcanta and Teferi, Hero of Dominaria, it's […]

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Colorless Matchup Guide: Affinity and Humans

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:00:28 +0000

Many remember the new Pod-less, Cruise-less Modern as one of the format's golden ages. In those days, the Twin vs. BGx metagame was defined as much by its helming midrange decks as by the "Big Three" aggro-combo strategies that forced players into so much interaction at all: Infect, Burn, and Affinity. Affinity has always boasted […]

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Colorless Matchup Guide: Mardu and Ironworks

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:00:56 +0000

Mardu Pyromancer and Ironworks are wildly successful Modern decks right now, and for good reason: the former attacks from multiple angles while making excellent use of the format's premier abusable resource, the graveyard; the latter is an artifact-based combo deck that's at once tricky to disrupt and unintuitive to play against for most opponents. So […]

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Regionals at a Glance and Invitational Insights

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 16:00:29 +0000

Another SCG Regionals is in the books, and SCG Con is just days away. It's an exciting time to be a Modern player, or at least a Modern data hound. Today, we'll look at some of the cooler lists from Regionals, and I'll give my thoughts both on the recent success of Colorless Eldrazi Stompy […]

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Love What You Play: Taking the Taste Test

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 18 May 2018 16:00:39 +0000

Modern has at times been described as a format hostile to Spike, the player demographic in search of winning at any cost. Indeed, "spiking" tournaments as players do in other constructed formats—by playing the best deck and understanding the mirror—isn't a reliable path to success in Modern. Rather, this format rewards players for picking a […]

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Just a Phase, Pt. 1: Upkeep and Draw

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 16:00:28 +0000

I knew when I wrote Colorless Eldrazi Stompy Mini-Primer: Play Tips that I was leaving out plenty of juicy information. Not on purpose, of course; there's just only so much I can fit in one article, or that comes to me at one time. It's been recently pointed out to me by spectators that I […]

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Adding Zhalfirin Void to Colorless Eldrazi Stompy

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:00:54 +0000

Dominaria leaks are well underway, and one recent card that's grabbed my attention is Zhalfirin Void. Unlike the clunky and frivolous Karn, Scion of Urza, Void looks to be a snap-include for Colorless Eldrazi Stompy in some number. We do have a few things to consider before sleeving it up, though: what the card does […]

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Gutting Worcester with Colorless Eldrazi Stompy

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:00:41 +0000

Last weekend, I took down the 400-player SCG Classic in Worcester with my tried-and-true Colorless Eldrazi Stompy deck, losing only four games over 12 rounds. I've long championed the deck as a sleeper behemoth in the format, but haven't had much time over the last year to show it off in tournament settings. My previous […]

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Colorless Eldrazi Stompy Mini-Primer: Play Tips

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:00:55 +0000

I've long considered myself a Delver die-hard when it comes to Modern. But I haven't been on much Delver at all since the Gitaxian Probe ban. Rather, the deck I've come to be known for in Boston is Colorless Eldrazi Stompy. In past weeks, I've reacted to local and online enthusiasm for the deck by […]

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Colorless Eldrazi Stompy Mini-Primer: Sideboarding

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:00:37 +0000

A couple weeks ago, I wrote a strategic guide to mulliganing with Colorless Eldrazi Stompy, a deck I've championed on Modern Nexus for almost two years now. Today's follow-up piece focuses on the deck's second-most-challenging (and important) aspect: sideboarding. This article covers build variations and possible sideboard includes before jumping into the matchup guide. But […]

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Colorless Eldrazi Stompy Mini-Primer: Mulligans

Jordan Boisvert — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:00:23 +0000

I've written that the average Magic player is too afraid of taking mulligans. That goes double for Modern, where card advantage matters less than in other formats, and triple for Colorless Eldrazi Stompy, which is built to mulligan aggressively into lean, powerful openers. Whether it's because of my own results with the deck, the attention it's […]

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