Swallowed by the Eldrazi

Pioneer Colorless Eldrazi Mill UBR (Grixis)

Cryohydra911

Creature (16)

• 3x Benthic Infiltrator
• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Cryptic Cruiser
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 2x Herald of Kozilek
• 2x Mist Intruder
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 2x Ruination Guide
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Vile Aggregate
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Artifact (3)

• 1x Aligned Hedron Network
• 1x Mana Geode
• 1x Silumgar Monument

Land (21)

• 8x Island
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Cinder Barrens
• 2x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Nephalia Academy
• 2x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Shrine of the Forsaken Gods

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Clear the Mind
• 1x Fortuitous Find
• 1x Paranoid Delusions
• 2x Resourceful Return

Instant (8)

• 1x Abnormal Endurance
• 1x Deny Existence
• 1x Rush of Vitality
• 1x Teferi's Time Twist
• 2x Thought Collapse
• 1x Tyrant's Scorn
• 1x Unwind

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Flamespeaker's Will
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x The Eldest Reborn

Planeswalker (4)

• 2x Ashiok, Dream Render
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable

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Maybeboard

Creature (13)

• 2x Culling Drone
• 3x Dominator Drone
• 1x Mind Raker
• 1x Mindmelter
• 2x Salvage Drone
• 2x Sludge Crawler
• 2x Tide Drifter

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My friends and I have been experimenting with MTG colors outside of our normal comfort zone, and I was most recently challenged to do something along the lines of blue-black control.

So, I'm a big fan of Eldrazi, just by their lore concept and their art. Then I noticed many of the weaker ones, specifically in Battle for Zendikar, came with a mechanic called "ingest" - if the creature with that ability hits a player directly, then the damaged player has to exile the top card of their deck. So I decided to make a deck around this central idea, of exile mill. (Not quite the control most people tend to think of, but the primary colors for the cards with this mechanic are black blue, so whatever.)

Main idea is, have a few weaker creatures that all have ingest and can either block or poke the opponent(s) directly, and as the game goes on and more lands develop start bringing out heavier hitters like Oblivion Sower and Stagnation to further the exile mill and start gaining benefits from their exile and punish my opponents harder. Keep doing this until there is enough mana generation to bring out the big guns like Ulamog, and have some counter and removal spells to make sure I can get to that point in the game; pull out the Hedron Alignment to give myself some breathing room if their side of the board is populated with stronger monsters, and by the time it's removed I'll have some extra ammunition to throw at them.

Cards added because limited card pool and needed extra functions: Silumgar Monument (mostly for additional black/blue mana)

I've playtested this with my friends a few times, and it performed surprisingly well even in a free for all setting. However, I definitely feel it can use some tweaks, and right off the bat I'd start putting more duel lands and potentially hyperfocus the deck with cards like Fault to make the exile mill that much worse, and next set put in an Ashiok Nightmare Render for giggles and play my opponents cards because Ashiok. Any feedback would be appreciated!

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 7 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.49
Tokens	Spirit 2/2 C