Eldrazi and Taxes

by MCNest on 28 November 2021

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (12)

Ethersworn Canonist2xEthersworn Canonist
Felidar Cub1xFelidar Cub
Knight of Autumn2xKnight of Autumn
Sanctifier en-Vec3xSanctifier en-Vec
Collector Ouphe2xCollector Ouphe
Thrun, the Last Troll2xThrun, the Last Troll

Sorceries (1)

Dusk // Dawn1xDusk // Dawn

Instants (2)

Settle the Wreckage2xSettle the Wreckage

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Deck Description

I'm playing paper magic for a while now. When playing modern I always fall back to taxes. Considering my strategy and the choices you have to make death and taxes, green white is my favorite one. I only have 2 modern decks, so when choosing to go to a tournament I choose this one because of the diversity in games. My other modern deck is a ur storm deck.

I've posted here to help me when I need a deck list. But you are all free to post your (dis)likes. It can only make it better.

How to Play

First try to disrupt your opponent's game plan with cards as Leonin Arbiter or Thalia.
Then try to make a clock with bigger creatures as Thought-Knot Seer or Reality Smasher.
Simple enough game plan isn't it?

Then the sideboarding:

Ethersworn Canonist
Good against combo decks or other decks that try to cast multiple cards in a single turn (Enchantress, Storm, Ad Nauseam,...)

Felidar Cub
Mainly a card you need for answering Blood Moon. So whenever you play against a red deck that may cast Blood Moon, it's an auto include (Burn, Enchantress, Bogles,...).

Knight of Autumn
Enchantments and artifacts are finding there way to modern easily. This gives a great advantage to decks that play these cards. In average I like to play these when they play enchantments or artifacts. Not like Felidar Cub, only against Blood Moon, but when it has more than one target in average. (Tron, Enchantress, Bogles,...).

Sanctifier en-Vec
This is a card I would suggest playing against everything playing black or red. This creature has protection from these colors. The second ability makes this card even better, Rest in Peace for all black and red cards. (Death's Shadow, Jund,
4/5c Good Stuff,...).

Collector Ouphe
F*** you artifacts (Tron, Affinity, Heliod Life,...).

Thrun, the Last Troll
Every deck that wants to control or destroy everything you have, has a hard time dealing with this card. (Jund, control, Junk,...).

Dusk // Dawn and Settle the Wreckage
These cards do basically the same. Sometimes they both are great, sometimes only one of them. Depending on the match-up, if a board whipe is necessary I consider one of those cards (Zoo, Tribal, 4/5c Good Stuff,...)

Deck Tags

  • Modern
  • Stax
  • Eldrazi
  • Selesnya
  • Bant

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Deck Format


Modern

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

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Deck discussion for Eldrazi and Taxes

Having a special tie to death&taxes I have been following the deck over the years.

Cutting æther vial will slow down the interaction between leonin arbiter and ghost quarter.
And in general the design seems to stay further and further away from it's original theme of locking down the opponents mana.

For example, the deck contained phyrexian revoker way back to take out fetchlands.

Here's a BW list from 2018, also containing eldrazi.
https://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/renting-decks-economy/

I'm in magic because of the complexity and evolution it contains.



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Posted 28 November 2021 at 18:43

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I also used to play æther vial. Sadly most of the time if you draw one it gets really awkward because you probably are to late in the game to make any advantage out of it. Because of that reason a mana dork is slightly more efficient in my opinion. Also Prismatic Ending is new in the format. So dorks can bring something down of 3 mana. I'm also not convinced of sacrificing lands for lands is still a good game plan in this modern meta. There is a lot artifact hate because it is mutch needed. There for I wouldn't like play artifacts (or enchantments).

Don't get me wrong, I liked to play æther vial. Especially if you have Flickerwisp. But green is a color that plays good dorks. In other cases/colors I would also prefer æther vial.

In any way, that other list you sent seems also fun to play. I'll maybe try it one day. Thanks

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Posted 28 November 2021 at 21:05

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No problem :)
I've sort of cut æthervial many times in my own designs, sometimes I cut them down to 3 as you usually don't want multiples, and you want to draw it with relatively high odds.
The advantage of æthervial is that it can fix a manascrew of 1 land which means you get to play 5 usefull cards even when your mana isn't present.

My own taxes variant is RW and is a really big project consisting of more than 20 different builds centered around a bunch of keycards, with 9 cards open for innovation.

Search for the decktag: wdm prison2
One of the builds should be displayed.

I've also designed an eldrazi displacer deck that instead of wasteland Strangler abuses a similar blue eldrazi as removal. I'll display it if you want to take a look.

Do you ever build into hatebear territory when running WG taxes ?
I remember when it had more focus on hating discard, and since inquisition of kozilek has fallen because of the revoke cycle it might be worth to see what discard adapts instead.



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Posted 28 November 2021 at 21:28

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I've looked at your rw taxes, but not my kind of deck. I just like playing green because all the ramp and sideboard choices. Also it runs a lot of land destruction. I really like to win without them giving up. The satisfaction is a bit higher. But it can definitely win. I'm sure of that.

The hatebear territory I had to look up. Never heard of it before. I presume it is the deck that is similar to death and taxes and similar to legacy lands? Legacy lands is fun to play but there are some auto losses. Definitely curious how it would be in modern.

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Posted 30 November 2021 at 21:37

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