#3 Soul Spike Set: Coldsnap Increase: +$40.80 Current Market Price: $46.81 Spike indeed
This is the Bant Eldrazi deck he used to take home the trophy, fueled by Ancient Stirrings: Creatures (25) 4 Noble Hierarch 1 Spellskite 3 Drowner of Hope 2 Eldrazi Skyspawner 4 Eldrazi Displacer 4 Reality Smasher 4 Thought-Knot Seer 3 Matter Reshaper Lands (24) Spells (11) With a maindeck featuring just Ancient Stirrings, Path to Exile, Dismember, and Noble Hierarch for non-hits, three-quarters of BBDs deck could be found by Ancient Stirrings, smoothing out draws by finding lands when needed (especially Eldrazi Temple) or threats when he didnt
Step 3: Take the bus/train/mobile transportation device of your choosing The name of the game is surface area
Cyber Dragon is one of the best rival cards, even if it doesnt match the 3,000 attack threshold
Bouncing your own stuff is horrendous for tempo but none the less is often worth doing in the long games where you rely on a certain threat to win or really need the extra value from an enter the battlefield effect
And unlike Bontu's Last Reckoning, you can actually do stuff next turn
