It's a new Standard
environment and luckily the URdrazi deck I've been playing recently didn't
lose a lot to rotation. Here's what I played:
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Mainboard
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Sideboard
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4x Kozilek's
Sentinel
4x Dimentional
Infiltrator
4x Herald of
Kozilek
4x Vile Aggregate
4x Eldrazi
Skyspawner
4x Eldrazi
Obligator
2x Thought-Knot
Seer
4x Reality Smasher
4x Spatial
Contortion
2x Brutal
Expulsion
1x Mirrorpool
2x Ruins of
Oran-Rief
2x Sea Gate
Wreckage
4x Corrupted
Crossroads
4x Shivan Reef
1x Yavimaya Coast
5x Island
5x Mountain
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3x Spell Shrivel
1x Void Shatter
2x Dispel
2x Negate
2x Roast
3x Seismic Rupture
2x Brutal
Expulsion
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I've been quite
enjoying playing this deck, and even with the loss of Ghost-Fire Blade, I think
it's got a lot of angles. It can play aggressive, with two ways to play a turn
four Reality Smasher in Eldrazi Skyspawner and Herald of Kozilek, and can close
out the game with a well-timed Eldtazi Obligator. It can also play the
defensive roll as Kozilek's Sentinel and Herald of Kozilek block very
effectively while Dimentional Infiltrator and Eldrazi Skyspawner can fly in for
damage.
Round 1: 2-0 vs
Counter Burn
I was excited to see
this deck in the tournament. It looks like the idea was to flash in a
Rattlechains while pushing tempo in the early game and use Pyromancer's Goggles
with cards like magmatic insight to grind out value in the mid to late game.
Unfortunately my opponent mulliganed to 5 in the first game and I swarmed over
him. In the second game, I managed to get a Eldrazi Skyspwaner down early and
it went the distance while my opponent was forced to deal with everything else.
Round 2: 2-0 vs RG
Eldrazi Ramp
This is another deck
that didn't lose a lot of cards to rotation. Thankfully I was able to keep up
the pressure and close out the game before my opponent could start playing his
big spells. Brutal Expulsion was absolutely fantastic in this match-up, remanding
an Explosive Vegetation and exiling a Hangerback Walker was…. Brutal.
Round 3: 2-1 vs UG
Eldrazi Agro
This was basically
the mon-blue Eldrazi list splashing green for Sylvan Advocate and Lumbering
Falls. I won the die roll, and while I think that made a huge the difference, I
do think the UR version has advantage in the matchup. Vile Aggregate blocks
Thought-Knot Seer and Sylvan Advocate fantastically, the Herald of Kozilek
gives me an extra way to ramp out a Reality Smasher and Eldrazi Obligator can setup a
massive alpha strike.
So I went 3-0 on a
quiet night at FNM. I had a lot of fun and feel that the URdrazi deck is a
solid choice in the early meta.
-Odd
As easy to stop as it is to comprehend. - Flavour text, Reality Smasher