How to beat Endless One

Ertai Planeswalker

I've been trying to beat the Endless One in the Zendikar Story mode for weeks now, but no matter what I try I cannot win. He's using the combination of Drowner of Hope (Who disables all the opponent's creatures for one turn when a creature enters the battlefield under your control) with a support that gives him a Eldrazi Drone token each turn (From the Beyond or something) to permanently disable my creatures.

- I've tried to make matches to quickly eliminate the support, but it has 4 shields so this is too slow. Either he reinforces it before i'm done or I'm so behind in mana production when it's gone that his board presence is to strong.
- I've tried a removal route to try and keep removal ready for when it hits the board. Hoewver, I cannot manage to do this quick enough.
- There are so many Eldrazi Drone creating effects in his deck, that sometimes I'm forced to use removal on his Drone stack. However, when I do he immediately has his next three cards fully charged with mana which is such a tempo boost that I cannot keep up anyway.
- The Drones have defender so there is a war of attrition going on that I'm simply unable to overcome, since all my creatures that are not killed by his removal (Spiked Tentacle or something, some mythic that deals a lot of damage) will die in combat with the Drones before they are even able to touch him.

If anyone has some tips they would sure be welcome because I'm simply stuck and cannot progress any further

Also, don't know if it's related but after finishing the SOI tutorials, the first chapter of the SOI storyline did not become available for me. Is this a bug? Or do I need to finish the BFZ chapters before SOI unlocks?

Killyah

A couple of ideas:

Try using support removal like Demolish to remove the supports rather than matching to remove.

Disable the drone stack before killing it so that he doesn't get mana from them.

There isn't currently any story mode for SOI other than the tutorial.

Ertai Planeswalker

Killyah wrote:

A couple of ideas:

Try using support removal like Demolish to remove the supports rather than matching to remove.

Disable the drone stack before killing it so that he doesn't get mana from them.

There isn't currently any story mode for SOI other than the tutorial.

Thanks for the tips. Support removal would be great, but Demolish is in red and that means having to rely on direct damage to kill big Eldrazi's. Disabling is not in red, it's Blue (Claustrophobia) or white (Bonds of Something). I only have the original 5 PW's so no multicolor. Blue lacks the proper removal when the opponent's hand is full (which it quickly is) and my Gideon deck, while powerful, is too slow. Are there white cards that destroy a support outright?

majincob

Ertai Planeswalker wrote:

Killyah wrote:

A couple of ideas:

Try using support removal like Demolish to remove the supports rather than matching to remove.

Disable the drone stack before killing it so that he doesn't get mana from them.

There isn't currently any story mode for SOI other than the tutorial.

Thanks for the tips. Support removal would be great, but Demolish is in red and that means having to rely on direct damage to kill big Eldrazi's. Disabling is not in red, it's Blue (Claustrophobia) or white (Bonds of Something). I only have the original 5 PW's so no multicolor. Blue lacks the proper removal when the opponent's hand is full (which it quickly is) and my Gideon deck, while powerful, is too slow. Are there white cards that destroy a support outright?

Yes, Felidar Cub (common) and Aguished unmaking (rare). For disabling, you could also run Suppression Bonds or Hixus (rare and Mythic from origins, so probably not helpful). Another good spell combo is encircling fissure and swift reckoning, both uncommon. Check out decktester.com for a usefull searchable index of cards.

Irving

Inner Struggle (a red uncommon) is great for larger creatures, and if you have any red fliers they will skip right over Eldrazi Scions. The only problem with that plan is that while all the red fliers are good (except Stormchaser Mage), there are only eight of them and they're all rare/mythic (except Stormchaser Mage).

You could try a Liliana discard/reanimation deck with Transgress the Mind and her first ability to make sure that even when you have to kill Scions, there aren't too many cards waiting there to fill up. Careful timing of discard can really help you with tempo too, stripping away cards that already had 12-15 mana invested in them. This deck is definitely best with Dark Petition (a rare), but can function without it.