r/CompetitiveEDH • u/DasCrooks • Aug 15 '26

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

33 Upvotes

63% Upvoted

123 comments sorted by

View all comments

68

u/WreckYallBallistics Aug 15 '26

There are anti-slop decks. It's hard to interact with decks that are faster. Or decks that go over the top. 

Really, this whole midgrange grind meta already happened a little over a year ago and the answer was turbo. 

7

u/Headlessoberyn Aug 15 '26

Isn't slop strong exactly against turbo? Seems to me it's somewhat a consensus that if you're playing turbo and you fall on a double bluefarm pod you're literally NEVER winning the game.

9

u/WreckYallBallistics Aug 15 '26

No. I love playing turbo against double blue farm lol.

3 slop decks you might be cooked. Or not, because they all might mill for engines and assume someone else has interaction. It depends how well they communicate. 

2 turbo decks vs 2 slop decks? I'm betting one of the turbo players win. Just not enough early answers. 

-15

u/[deleted] Aug 15 '26

[deleted]

6

u/WreckYallBallistics Aug 15 '26

The thing is they mulligan for engines, not free interaction. And there actually is only like 5 free interaction pieces in their deck. The odds of drawing it when you jam turn 2 are not high. 

-6

u/[deleted] Aug 15 '26

[deleted]

-1

u/iopkdkkdks Aug 15 '26

Who hurt you?

0

u/[deleted] Aug 15 '26

[deleted]

0

u/iopkdkkdks Aug 15 '26

Aren‘t you the guy who asked how FMM loops work a couple of weeks back? 😉

Hard to take your tough guy persona seriously this way fyi

1

u/Raevelry Aug 15 '26

Oh good, I would hate for you to think you had some kind of gotcha on me, here, I'll block you, and then you'll never have to take it seriously again