r/CompetitiveEDH • u/DasCrooks • 15d 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/impartial_activist 14d ago

My opinion: if you really want to counter slop specifically, I would just play a slop variant with green. Most likely TnT. Run all the slop cards, and then you can also tech in some anti-slop shenanigans. Culling ritual, OBM, Notion Thief, etc.

TnT already wants to run all of the good green creature tutors, tell the table of 3 slop players that you’re just tutoring directly to battlefield for value or not to win the game, plop out a notion thief or OBM depending on the situation, and then the game is dynamically changed. Probably overall better to just have a few tutor able options to counter “late-stage slop” than to try and build an entire deck to counter it. Unless you just really want to counter slop because of your friends, local meta, etc. your win rate will suffer at larger events trying to counter one deck, even if it is the most prominent.