Just me messing around with Ananta. I think it's a card that hasn't been cracked yet, be it because of the underwhelming power of Reptiles in Edison or because it's a very janky card in of itself that does need work to see effective results. Feel like this build is a bit more flexiable than just committing fully to one specific strat, which is why there's a bit of a mix in the side in terms of what exactly the deck wants to do and not do, so you got a bit of Alien, you run the regular Reptilianne engine to skim the deck, etc etc. Ananta regardless is a key monster for purely building up pressure and being consistent reliable field removal.
You think playing 3x Ananta would brick starting hands; I thought so as well; but for the vast majority of test showings I've had no such issue at all. It's a bit of a issue at points when you draw one out of the blue if you're not correctly set up, otherwise they seem pretty well balanced with the rest of the deck.