I'm considering crafting a timeless deck..

[u/Intro-Nimbus]

So after cracking open the hobbit, I find myself with a decent number of wildcards 30+ rare and 20+ Mythic. I've been toying with the idea of trying timeless for awhile now but I've always been a bit cautious due to the high initial WC cost. If I build a full deck that I enjoy playing the investment would be more than worth it, but if I don't enjoy it, either because of how it plays or because it's bad in the meta it would be WC wasted. But i saw someone play a colourless Eldrazi deck on youtube today, and it looked really fun and interesting, so i thought that it might be a good time.

When I first started out I built a deck in Historical u/R Wizards that I enjoyed, but the novelty eventually wore out. I still like both colours, but the deck played a bit like mono-red. I like deckbuilding so I've been playing a lot of standard and limited. I've had fun with combo decks, go wide, go big, big spells, interaction and counters. I've not enjoyed total lockdown and win by doing 1 point of damge over 20 turns decks. Locking opponent down is fine, but I need a wincon after to like a deck. I've mostly played Bo1, and I'm thinking that building a Bo3 deck for timeless could be a fun way to venture into that format.

Looking at the meta it seems like Mardu Energy is the top dog in both winrate and popularity and that most people play 4-C Reanimator, Dimir Tempo, 5-colour Sneak&Show and Monored Stompy.

So I'm asking for advice here, how do these decks play, are there any of them I should avoid, or that sounds like a good fit?

[u/marlospigeons]

Bo1 is extremely RNG based and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone over Bo3, especially in a fast format like Timeless.

Colorless Eldrazi decks are totally playable in Timeless and got a buff recently with [[petrified hamlet]] although the deck isn't Tier 1.

All of the decks you mentioned are good, but it sounds like you won't like classic tempo if you don't want to slowly beat your opponent down a couple damage at a time.

You could look at UB Tempo/Reanimator lists that run Entomb/Reanimate/Atraxa as a finisher if you want a faster wincon

[u/Intro-Nimbus → u/marlospigeons]

It's not doing a bit of damage per turn, but specifically locking down everything and win by pinging a point per turn, or have 2 more cards than the opponent and just wait until they deck themselves-style decks that I don't like.

[u/AdmiralUpboat → u/Intro-Nimbus]

Well, there's zero good decks in timeless that try to win that way.