Traverse the Tentacles: EMN Rock

Standard BG (Golgari) Colorless Control Eldrazi Midrange Rock

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Instant (10)

• 3x Grasp of Darkness
• 2x Pulse of Murasa
• 3x Spatial Contortion
• 2x Succumb to Temptation

Sorcery (10)

• 2x Duress
• 3x Languish
• 2x Ruinous Path
• 3x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Ob Nixilis Reignited

Creature (14)

• 2x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 3x Matter Reshaper
• 3x Mindwrack Demon
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 3x Reality Smasher
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x World Breaker

Land (24)

• 3x Drownyard Temple
• 3x Evolving Wilds
• 2x Forest
• 4x Hissing Quagmire
• 4x Llanowar Wastes
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Wastes

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Sideboard

Instant (4)

• 2x Aerial Volley
• 2x Clip Wings

Sorcery (3)

• 2x Collective Brutality
• 1x Languish

Enchantment (2)

• 2x Dead Weight

Creature (5)

• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Ishkanah, Grafwidow
• 2x Noose Constrictor

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Collective Brutality

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This is my culmination of all the awesome things that BG Rock has going for it.

I am going for a pretty solid midrange feel with Emrakul, the Promised End at the top, with delirium happening along the way.

To fill the yard I use Grapple with the Past along with Pulse of Murasa. It doesn't mill at all but I can bring a fattie back with 6 lifegain which is good.

I do not have any Liliana, the Last Hope so I am using Ob Nixilis Reignited for some solid planeswalker action.

I traded my set of Hangarback Walker a while back and my LGS doesn't have any right now so I am using Hedron Crawler instead for a dual-type creature and the ramp is great.

I worked pretty hard to find the right balance of card types that still fulfill the right purpose in the deck, and I think this will perform pretty well at FNM.

I have a few singleton cards in here, because I can use Traverse the Ulvenwald to tutor up a big guy if I need to. This could be great for Ishkanah, Grafwidow or Nissa, Vastwood Seer  .

I feel like there is a pretty solid mix of removal and card advantage going on. The one thing I am trying that may be departing from the norm is 4x Oath of Nissa instead of 4x Vessel of Nascency . I like the oath because it is the only thing I can do on turn one and theoretically allows me to keep a riskier hand while searching for a land on turn 1 or 2. If people see a fatal flaw in this logic, feel free to let me know.

Give I a test and your feedback. I have a few sideboard ideas but could always use more.

Top Ranked	Achieved #17 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 3 Mythic Rares 25 - 3 Rares 5 - 2 Uncommons 10 - 6 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.22
Tokens	Ashaya, the Awoken World, Emblem Ob Nixilis Reignited, Spider 1/2 G, Zombie 2/2 B
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