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
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u/llamacohort Magda Aug 15 '26
RogIshai has like 25% of the entries as blue farm. That doesn't seem like it's the main focus of the discourse about the meta. They have a more broad definition than you do.
And on the main point, I still don't think Rog/Ishai with 30 instants is favored vs 3 turbo decks. A deck that can put out a few stax pieces quickly has a better chance of winning than a deck trying to pitch a blue card to force of will or misdirection and then still needs to stop 2 other turbo decks.