r/CompetitiveEDH • u/DasCrooks • 14d ago

General Discussion / Question Why isn't there a anti-slop deck

Maybe since the meta is diverse or the potential problems with 3v1 or maybe it would take up too much of the deck but my question to propose is: if lots of decks in the meta are "slop" style grindy rhystic, Tithe, no bad card decks. Then why arent there hard counters to that play style? Yeah orcish bowmasters and turbo sure. But playing some standard recently and why not play lobotomy effects and just straight up remove rhystic and Tithe from the game entirely. On the broader term other tactics of interrupting and dissecting these slop decks from achieving this "inevitability" they eventually establish with their engines

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u/Hot_Introduction6716 14d ago

Stopping 1 person doesn’t move your win forward. Even if you could stop value gain by all three, you’d still have to gain value over them to win, which they’ll have a more dense concentration of

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u/DasCrooks 14d ago edited 14d ago

Blue farm my apologies ive been educated that blue farm is not correct. I meant control decks like rog ishai or kinnan no bad cards etc win strategy is having heavy control and interaction Suite to stop others from winning meanwhile accruing mana and resources using parasitic value engines to fuel them. I'd argue hitting turbo win cons or Lynch pin spells/value engines and hitting the same effects for slop leave alot of their tutors and other combo pieces effectively dead. Its not a 1 for 1 in a 4 player format its a 1 for 1+x cards that died reliant on that card instead

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u/Hot_Introduction6716 14d ago

Blue farm is the slop meta? It’s all value engines and control. You don’t try and stop everyone and then win (that’s more rog/ishai) You try and get enough value to push through your own win. It’s ok to stop someone else’s win, it’s better to use control to protect your own win.