The Eldrazi have certainly made their presence known in Modern. In just a few short weeks we’ve gone from discovering the deck at Pro Tour Oath of the Gatewatch to a crazy arms race of mirror match technology. First, players started splashing cards like Eldrazi Displacer and Worship to trump the U/R variants. Now we’re seeing a shift toward Green for World Breaker as an answer to the White trump. But that’s not all there is to the metagame. As Eldrazi takes up a bigger portion of the format, it becomes easier to try to hate the deck out, which is exactly what Orehcro has tried to do:

G/W Midrange ? Modern | Orehcro, 5-0 Modern League

• Creatures (23)
• 1 Fiend Hunter
• 1 Knight of the White Orchid
• 1 Pilgrim's Eye
• 2 Eternal Witness
• 2 Wood Elves
• 4 Flickerwisp
• 4 Squadron Hawk
• 4 Sun Titan
• 4 Wall of Omens

• Spells (14)
• 1 Celestial Flare
• 1 Dismember
• 4 Path to Exile
• 2 Day of Judgment
• 1 Journey to Nowhere
• 2 Oblivion Ring
• 1 Sword of Light and Shadow
• 2 Mortarpod

• Lands (23)
• 8 Plains
• 1 Mistveil Plains
• 2 Canopy Vista
• 2 Windswept Heath
• 3 Ghost Quarter
• 3 Temple Garden
• 4 Emeria, the Sky Ruin

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Day of Judgment
• 3 Dismember
• 2 Intrepid Hero
• 2 Kitchen Finks
• 3 Kor Firewalker
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Seal of Primordium
• 2 Stony Silence

Buy This Deck

This deck just doesn’t care about your Eldrazi nonsense. Whether it’s stifling the aggressive draws with Wall of Omens and Wood Elves, or just trumping them in combat with Sun Titan, this deck appears to have all the tools to keep up with the Eldrazi menace at every step of the game. On top of that, there’s all manner of cute interactions which seem like an absolute blast to play with. Let’s break some of it down.

The key to this deck is the interaction between Flickerwisp and creatures with enters the battlefield abilities. This lets you do things like curve Wall of Omens or Wood Elves into Flickerwisp to start pulling ahead, or even to start flickering Eternal Witness as the game goes long. Part of the power of this deck is its ability to kill Reality Smasher without targeting it with Path to Exile. This is a function of being able to play Fiend Hunter, Journey to Nowhere, and Oblivion Ring, all of which play nicely with Flickerwisp, since you can play them early to contain fast pressure and still reset them later on to keep bigger threats under control.

My favorite part of this deck is the late game plan of Emeria, the Sky Ruin plus Sun Titan. This game plan gives you the ability to do all kinds of absurd things, like rebuying your enchantment-based removal, Ghost Quarters, or value creatures, particularly Flickerwisp, which lets you get multiple Sun Titan triggers and keep the board clogged. My favorite interaction, however, is with Mortarpod, a personal favorite which is at its best in this style of deck. Mortarpod lets you sacrifice key value creatures like Eternal Witness so that you can rebuy them with Sun Titan over and over again.

Between the permanent-based removal spells and ability to gum up the ground, this deck is more than capable of buying enough time against Eldrazi for Sun Titan to come down and start cleaning up the mess. If that doesn’t work, you have access to sweepers, which are a huge bane of the Eldrazi deck, since it largely doesn’t have a lot of card advantage built in. On the surface, the deck appears to have all the necessary tools to keep pace, but there’s only one way to find out for sure.