If i could get my hands on rancor i'd use it, trust me. The blight mamba is an excellent suggestion. I'll change that ASAP. Good job commenting less than 10 minutes after wrote the deck up.
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why not nantuko shade instead of the looming one?
I'm pretty sure that Eldrazi's "when put into graveyard shuffle into library" effect happens instantaneously. That means cards like suffer the past and haunting echoes won't work, even though suffer the past is an instant. Sadistic Sacrament is perfect for exiling those pesky Eldrazi, but I would reccommend throwing a few Leyline of the Voids in there 'cause they just totally destroy the eldrazi advantage
This deck is awesome. I don't know enough about the kamigawa set or samurai to offer any useful commentary, but just looking at the cards tells me that this deck is badass.
Valakut is basically useless in this deck. It's effect only activates when you play a mountain with 5 already under your control. since you only have six mountains, this effect can occur a maximum of 1 time. Which doesn't strike me as particularly useful.
You know he can use gatekeeper to get rid of the protectors, right? It's "target player", so he just spends three and Voila, no protector! I agree, however, that marsh flats is useless.