The Eldrazi have started to make their presence known in Legacy, and the format has begun to adapt in response. After all, it takes different cards to fight against Reality Smasher backed by Chalice of the Void and Thorn of Amethyst than it does to fight against Delver of Secrets and Show and Tell. Fortunately, Stuuch may have found the perfect combination of aggressive creatures to punish the Eldrazi menace. Let’s take a look:

Zoo ? Legacy | Stuuch, 5-0 Legacy League

• Creatures (23)
• 2 Grim Lavamancer
• 2 Kird Ape
• 2 Scab-Clan Berserker
• 3 Bloodbraid Elf
• 3 Ghor-Clan Rampager
• 3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 4 Qasali Pridemage
• 4 Wild Nacatl

• Planeswalkers (2)
• 2 Domri Rade

• Spells (15)
• 2 Price of Progress
• 3 Path to Exile
• 4 Lightning Bolt
• 2 Chain Lightning
• 4 Oath of Nissa

• Lands (20)
• 1 Forest
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Plains
• 2 Plateau
• 2 Savannah
• 2 Taiga
• 3 Arid Mesa
• 3 Windswept Heath
• 4 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Karakas

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Price of Progress
• 1 Choke
• 2 Ethersworn Canonist
• 2 Gaddock Teeg
• 2 Kor Firewalker
• 2 Krosan Grip
• 3 Red Elemental Blast
• 2 Relic of Progenitus

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There are a number of key interactions in this deck, giving it the ability to put up a fight against Eldrazi. First, the raw efficiency of creatures like Wild Nacatl and Kird Ape helps substantially when you’re trying to fight against Thought-Knot Seers and Reality Smashers. This is particularly true when these cards are backed up with Ghor-Clan Rampager, which lets you attack through Eldrazi while forcing damage. To the end of attacking into Eldrazi, Thalia, Guardian of Thraben is particularly powerful, since both Grim Lavamancer and Lightning Bolt let Thalia attack freely into almost any defender. It’s also important to note both Grim Lavamancer and Ghor-Clan Rampager get around any taxing effects like Sphere of Resistance or Trinisphere.

In addition to using spell-like abilities as a way to work around Trinisphere and company, Stuuch’s Zoo deck also has four main deck Qasali Pridemage as a way to fight against any hateful artifacts and help force your creatures through with exalted triggers. Additionally, something like Bloodbraid Elf gives this deck the ability to grind out attrition-based games against both Eldrazi and control decks. Even if opponents can weather the initial burst of aggressive creatures with cards like Terminus or Snapcaster Mage plus removal, this deck can just cast a Bloodbraid Elf and keep the pressure up.

It’s also interesting to see what the inclusion of Oath of Nissa allows this deck to do. The card selection allows this deck to trim on lands a little bit and still expect to hit three-drops like Domri Rade on time. It also allows the deck to trim copies of cards like Thalia, Guardian of Thraben and Grim Lavamancer but still have a good chance to find them before sideboarding. Similarly, Oath gives you a more consistent way to ensure you find powerful sideboard cards in games two and three.

If you’re looking for a way to dominate the Eldrazi deck in combat, this seems like the perfect deck for the job.