[Modern] It turns out Painter's Servant kind of shuts down Eldrazi's manabase. Is there anything broken we can do with Painter's servant to take advantage of this meta?

I like the effort, but I think it's important to remember that the mana base for the new Eldrazi cards that came in OGW are simply just busted. It was one thing with Ulamog's taking a bit to get there, but the explosiveness and potency of spells the deck can reliably cast and stock full in the deck makes it completely format breaking. I mean, think about the list that you just made, it's pretty much an anti-Eldrazi decklist. If a deck has to be made in order to directly compete with Eldrazi by just being full of pure hate, it's not going to work. And honestly, the cards you listed wouldn't really help swing things drastically in your favor. Eldrazi would still have a game against you, and pretty much everything else would run through you. These new Eldrazi decks are just full of the best things in magic. You'd pretty much need Force of Will and Wasteland in Modern to be able to try and disrupt the Turn 2 TKS or Reality Smasher. Even then, they have 3-4 copies of Cavern of Souls in their deck to make everything uncounterable.

The only reason Affinity has a game against it is because Affinity can apply multiple threats with a lot of pressure very fast. Tearing apart the hand of a player using Affinity isn't as realistic since Affinity usually drops most of its hand in the first few turns anyway. Also, the high count of fliers in Affinity help go over top of the Eldrazi's. Even then, Eldrazi has a much higher win percentage because the manabase and power density of the Eldrazi cards in it are sooooo much more consistent. The top decks you get from the Eldrazi lists are much, much better too.

Maybe we'll see a rise in Lantern Control or something, which seems to align up well against the Eldrazi list on paper. Things can go to shit so fast though with how many and how fast the Eldrazi decks can spit out powerful spell-infused creatures.

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