75 pt Tournament, Three list parings

Totally agree with getting Molik in your Mak2 list. Though sometimes the Mortitheurge is necessary for making sure you can force Molik when he's way out on the table after being flung. Better players than me seem content not to have the Mortitheurge in their Makeda lists.

I'm also new to building three lists for events, but I'll be attending the SOO this year, so I'm in the same boat as you. I'm simply taking my normal pairing and adding a specialist.

Xerxis2: Heavy cracker and my main workhorse considering the heavy meta.
Makeda1: Similar to your Mak2 list; an excellent jammer with a variety of tools. She's my generalist, reserved for games against Menoth, Legion and some Trolls.
Hexeris2: Pure dudespam counter, in case I encounter Ghost Fleet, or Merc and Ret infantry swarms.

I found categorizing their roles into specific factions helped me establish a reasonable plan. I think your Morg2 list does the dudespam job (for Mortality, and lots of Anatomical Precision), but also handles a decent Molik strategy. Mak2 is your generalist, and I've seen firsthand this sort of list pulverize opponents. When it comes to your third list, you might want a beast brick, like you mentioned. Morg1 and Xerxis2 deal out high damage, swift battlegroups.

I should probably do this like an info-mercial but yeah... make one of your lists a Zaal2 exhalted list. Even if you are just using it as intimidation, everyone is becoming more and more warry of his lists. If we get an exhalted theme, you're going to see it get stacked even heavier. The thing about Zaal2 exhalted lists is that you have 20-30 immortals in them that can turn incorporeal by turn. Usually their speed is an issue but with the ancestral guardians they all get +2 movement. With Hakaar they then all get +1 mat x.O; then on feat turn they get +5 armor, making their base armor 22, 26 for hakaar when he has his souls. They all have vengeance to boot, and we all know how hard our exhalted models can hit. There are not many lists that can handle them, especially since their weapons are magical. The only reason I'm not running a Zaal2 list is because I lack the required 20+ immortals (right now I only have 10 with me, the other 10 are in a box that I currently do not have access too for about another month)

I've been playing a lot of makeda2 lately and I can tell you the most important part of the list are Willbreakers. They're the support needed in the list and tough is the only mechanic that allow you to play an highlander style list. With tough and dodge your ferox can withstand 9 serious injuries and still not die, while without you would only stay death 6. Difference between 6 and 9 is huge since dodge and health boxes, coupled with solid defensive stats, will require way more effort on your opponent's part than you'd think.

I would also recommend reach warbeast only, so that you can attack through ferox and then cover los. Makeda alphas with cavalry, and doesn't want to offer your opponent targets you can't stay death. That's why you don't need Gladiator at all. You also don't need to worry about shooting, since your beasts will be covered from cats (same base size) and thus won't be shot at.

My advice:
For infantry
-Tough/Steady infantry
-High quality units or solos. The higher the value, the better the stay death. Legends and Ferox require a lot of work to get killed, neutering most of your opponent's list attacks.
-High survivability models.

For battlegroup:
-Slow is OK. Choose models that can help you thorough the whole game, those who contribute when they're not in melee.
-You only need one heavy hitter to close the game. Stay death will block lanes to him, just enough to get more turns of melee
-Despoiler is awesome because he has value even if he doesn't attack: effectively gives you one fury, can run and dark shroud, staying safe, can neuter some important techs with his animus such as butcher3, sorshka1 or amon late game.
-Krea is good because makes infantry harder to kill, thus rising efficiency of stay death
-Tiberion, Sentry, Brute have shield guard. It can open whole matchups if they take drags/grievous wounds shots
-Cannoneer, Aradus Sentinel, Raider, Shaman have value in their long shots, allowing you to take out key pieces without sacrificing infantry (again, increases stay death efficiency)
-Molik Kharn can do work and go back with animus, and very rarely contribute to a caster kill

Utility:
-Willbreakers are a must. They drastically increase stay death efficiency both with tough and with continous effects. They also enable assassinations (mostly done by ferox and Radheim) because of puppet master. Many games I've won by assassination.
-Tycom helps with threat. He's a solid beater too, will help late game.
-Orin prevents the only weakness of the list, but can't be stay death. Depending on the matchups, might be good
-Master Tormentor is high quality/high survivability solo. Very good stay death target.

Thank you for your thoughts! I really like the flexibility and different options that Makeda2 can bring, just comes down to narrowing down the best options for the meta and the pairings I guess.

Any chance you have any battle reports of your games? Really interested in seeing more of how the list plays out and how some other people position and play, because it does seem to be a list that requires some solid play to be at its most effective.

Thanks for all of the tips, and I will definitely go check that out for some reports!