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Modern Colorless Eldrazi Midrange Tribal WB (Orzhov)

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Back in 2015 I had just gotten back into Magic: The Gathering with Battle for Zendikar, and after reacquainting myself with the game I decided to give a go at Modern, buying a playset of Eldrazi Temple and Eye of Ugin for about $15 to build a deck using the new Eldrazi cards introduced in BFZ. Oath of the Gatewatch hits a few months later, granting a slew of cheap Eldrazi that abused these lands and soon I was in an Eldrazi Winter Wonderland. Nevertheless, this broken shit ruined Modern and was subsequently banned. However, if Twin players were tearfully sleeving up Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker in Modern and Amulet Bloom players were still getting casting Primeval Titan on Turn 3 I knew there was a way I could still make these dumb spaghetti monsters still work and with Joe Soh winning GP Kobe 2017 with a similar deck, I knew this deck had some legs to it. If you want to take another whiff of that Ulamog cocaine dust Wizards was snorting while the rest of Modern format was buried under it, this might be the deck for you.

So you might be thinking "But Brolamog, there's already a W/B Eldrazi and Taxes deck out there and that's mediocre enough!" However, these decks differentiate pretty vastly from one another in playstyle and if you can't see that well, that's also why you probably didn't see the divorce coming either. Luckily this time I'm here to tell you where it all went wrong, see the Eldrazi Taxes deck uses the standard Taxes shell of Thalia, Guardian of Thraben , Leonin Arbiter and Aether Vial to act as a disruptive creature aggro strategy but uses colorless lands to play Thought-Knot Seer and Lingering Souls for some grindy late game potential. However, this deck becomes clunky due to the fact that the colorless lands in the deck don't cast the White Hatebear creatures in the deck along with the fact that running a higher curve makes Aether Vial a lot worse. Furthermore, with Humans in the metagame the standard Death and Taxes builds are being outclassed quickly much like how Karen's "friend" from work gets along better with your kids than you did. The edge that pure W/B Eldrazi has over the taxes deck is that by cutting the aggressive creature cards we can run a smoother curve by relying mostly on colorless lands with cards like Reality Smasher and Thought-Knot Seer finding homes here. Furthermore, this deck gets to run maindeck graveyard hate in the form of Relic of Progenitus which works better at keeping Wasteland Strangler active in the deck along with instantly winning against some decks. In the metagame at the moment with graveyard decks seeming to dominate the field, this deck can prove to be a great anti-meta choice while having a strong enough top end to take over the game from aggro decks running small creatures.

So this deck deviates pretty heavily from the standard builds of this deck, partially because of certain opinions I have of them and partially because I think some of these cards are just sweet underrated inclusions. This deck plays like a weird version of Jund or Abzan where we essentially attempt to strip our opponent of resources and win by playing better cards than they do, and with the ability to get a Thought-Knot Seer down on Turn 3 this goal can be pretty easy to obtain. Thoughtseize is basically just a meta call and thus could be added to this deck easily, as there's a lot of Burn/Aggressive decks at my FNM and losing the 2 life is relevant more often than not, and between Inquisition of Kozilek , Tidehollow Sculler and Thought-Knot Seer (which potentially curves into each other) the deck doesn't really need anymore discard. However, if you got a bunch of Tron and Amulet Titan and decks trying to play big mana spells you probably should replace some Inquisitions with some Thoughtseizes. Now, because y'all are reading this deck primer on tappedout and not somewhere more credible like ChannelFireball or StarCityGames I'll give you what you came to get, and that is some spicy meatballs of card choices in the spaghetti monster deck. Warping Wail is nuts in this deck, as it not only helps us get down a Thought-Knot Seer on Turn 2 but it also can counter Sorceries which is great against stuff like Scapeshift , Terminus and ad nauseum among other things. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE because Warping Wail also can exile a creature with Power/Toughness 1 or less which means Dark Confidant , Thing in the Ice  , Noble Hierarch and Bloodghast all can be removed from the game cleanly. The card is like a colorless swiss army knife, and as a result the deck runs a playset.

Something to note with this deck is that there are essentially two methods of playing it, which I will call the "Strip Poker" mode and the "Cheater Cheater Graveyard Eater" mode. Strip Poker mode is like playing strip poker in real life except the cute girl across the table is your opponent's hand and you keep rigging the deck to keep spitting out flushes. Being able to curve Inquisition of Kozilek into Tidehollow Sculler into Wasteland Strangler or Thought-Knot Seer if the stars align is a really strong line that can leave your opponent with little to as a result, and when combined with Path to Exile and Fatal Push there you can still take down the threats that slip through the cracks. This is the playstyle most of your games end up being. Cheater Cheater Graveyard Eater mode on the other hand is where you're a lucky piece of shit and essentially cheat the whole game by casting your Reality Smasher and other beefy Eldrazi on Turn 3-4 and just kill your opponent Stompy style while still maintaining the disruptive elements from before. Lingering Souls is somewhat the bridge between these two strategies, as it not only is one of the best grindy cards in the format but also can put 4 flying power onto the board by Turn 4. This deck is interactive but also has the potential to play pretty linearly, which I feel makes it a strong contender in the Modern metagame.

This sideboard is pretty hella spicy because ya boy doesn't really need Rest in Peace since we have enough graveyard hate and with Affinity on the decline and KCI banned in Modern artifact hate isn't as important as before. Ratchet Bomb is just a generically good card that can be used to blow up Blood Moon as well as it can deal with the large board of creatures. Anguished Unmaking is multipurpose removal for stuff like Blood Moon or Ensaring Bridge which can ruin our day pretty hard, and is also pretty fantastic for removing stuff like Teferi, Hero of Dominaria in the U/W Control match up. Speaking of Control, Karn, Scion of Urza is a draw engine we can use to help get ahead of our opponent if they try to grind us out of the game and Sin Collector provides more hand attack against these decks (the exile is relevant as well). I'm also a fan of Endbringer against slow match ups since it can keep planeswalkers in check, ping our opponent to death, break a boardstall or just draw some cards for some good utility in the long game. In the aggro match ups, we have a few options at our disposal such as Lone Missionary and Kambal, Consul of Allocation against Burn decks (Kambal also is a nice combo stopper) besides also being reasonable against Midrange and Combo respectively. Against creature aggro decks there's Ghostly Prison to slow them down (also great against decks making infinite creatures), Flaying Tendrils as a boardwipe that also exiles threats and Spatial Contortion in the rare case we need to kill an Etched Champion . Match up specific cards include Surgical Extraction as additional graveyard hate against Phoenix or Dredge decks, Infernal Reckoning to kill Wurmcoil Engine , Worldbreaker, and Hangarback Walker cleanly and Slaughter Pact against the occasional Infect player.

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