MTG FNM Report - URdrazi

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:

Mainboard	Sideboard
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	3x Spell Shrivel 1x Void Shatter 2x Dispel 2x Negate 2x Roast 3x Seismic Rupture 2x Brutal Expulsion

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