Since the banning of Eye of Ugin, we’ve seen very little of the more aggressive variants of Eldrazi. It turns out that it’s much harder to curve Eldrazi Mimic into Thought-Knot Seer into Reality Smasher when there’s one fewer two-mana land in the format. People have recently turned their attention to UrzaTron-based Eldrazi decks, playing a more midrange style, somewhere between the aggressive Eldrazi decks and the ramp-esque UrzaTron decks. Last weekend, Nublaku may have found a way to make Eldrazi Aggro a player in Modern again:

Eldrazi Aggro - Modern | Nublaku, 13th Place Modern Challenge

• Creatures (24)
• 1 Endless One
• 3 Matter Reshaper
• 4 Eldrazi Mimic
• 4 Eternal Scourge
• 4 Reality Smasher
• 4 Simian Spirit Guide
• 4 Thought-Knot Seer

• Instants (4)
• 4 Dismember

• Artifacts (9)
• 1 Key to the City
• 4 Chalice of the Void
• 4 Serum Powder

• Lands (23)
• 2 Wastes
• 2 Mutavault
• 2 Scavenger Grounds
• 2 Tectonic Edge
• 3 Gemstone Caverns
• 4 Blinkmoth Nexus
• 4 Eldrazi Temple
• 4 Ghost Quarter

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 All Is Dust
• 1 Grafdigger's Cage
• 2 Pithing Needle
• 2 Ratchet Bomb
• 4 Relic of Progenitus
• 4 Spatial Contortion

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The biggest problem with this deck is that you only have access to Eldrazi Temple as a two-mana land. Simian Spirit Guide does a reasonable job of letting you cheat ahead to cast Chalice of the Void and other threats, but that’s not enough on its own. This deck solves that problem in two ways. First, the addition of Gemstone Caverns. This land being legendary could cause problems in protracted games, but that’s generally not going to happen with this deck. Instead, it lets you pull ahead in games where you’re on the draw, and give yourself the ability to play a Thought-Knot Seer as early as turn one.

Secondly, Nublaku has given themselves more opportunities to find hands that have explosive potential by adding Serum Powder. This is a card we see more of in Vintage and Legacy than in Modern, but it makes a lot of sense here. Your explosive draws are so much better than your fair ones that you’re certainly willing to have some dead draws into order to give yourself more chances to draw a hand that lets you play an unfair game.