The Ceaseless Eldrazi Horde
Commander / EDH
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Course Correction —April 21, 2017
I overdid it with the ramp. Each game this deck brings out lots of land but has nothing to do with it. So I'm scaling back the ramp a bit and replacing slower card draw effects with faster burst draw to get things moving. And more Eldrazi.
Added
- Windfall - Burst card draw
- Mind Spring - Burst card draw
- Harmonize - Burst card draw
- Painful Truths - Burst card draw and the Converge requirement should be easy.
- Rhystic Study - Not technically burst draw but with multiple opponents this draws more than once per turn.
- Abundance - With all this card draw, let's ensure I get what I need.
- Diabolic Tutor - Always more tutors
- Worldly Tutor - A better tutor
- Hull Breach - Removal
- Planar Bridge - Another way to tutor/cheat creatures into play
- Matter Reshaper - More Eldrazi
- Oblivion Sower - More Eldrazi
- Reality Smasher - More Eldrazi
- Endless One - More Eldrazi
- Cascading Cataracts - An upgraded Crystal Quarry
Removed
- Forerunner of Slaughter - Weak, not worth it.
- Farseek - Less ramp
- Spoils of Victory - Less ramp
- Kruphix, God of Horizons - It was a cute idea to pair this with Seedborn Muse but I don't need to carry mana forward from turn to turn.
- Seedborn Muse - This was originally here for the above combo but I'm not doing much on my opponents' turn without flash
- Awakening Zone - Painful to take out because of the flavour, but it's just too slow and too small an effect.
- Prismatic Omen - Haven't had colour issues so this feels a little overkill.
- Temple Bell - Slow card draw
- Underworld Connections - Slow card draw
- Deepfathom Skulker - Slow card draw
- Fist of Suns - A neat idea that never worked out well in practice
- Zendikar Resurgent - Expensive for what it does. For this cost, I'd rather play other things.
- Emrakul's Influence - I don't have a ton of creatures to trigger this and I ca do better things on turn 4
- Crystal Quarry - Obsolesced by Cascading Cataracts
- Spire of Industry - A more conditional City of Brass, I've lost interest in it.
As someone who has played Colorless with Kozilek in the cmd zone for over 2 years (see Kozilek,The Great Distortion of the Boardstate) i can tell you what basically everyone else will tell you. It That Betrays is horribly win-more, so unless its a pet card of yours you should find an alternative. Maybe Solemn Simulacrum
September 4, 2016 9 p.m.
lil_cheez I initially avoided Quicksilver Amulet because I didn't want to miss out on the cast triggers of the Eldrazi titans, but having played the deck a fair amount I think you're completely right: The ability to get those titans in play that soon is more powerful than the extra cast trigger.
I can see what you mean QuietMyth. It That Betrays is pretty win-more. Therefore, I'm on the hunt for a Quicksilver Amulet to replace It That Betrays.
Yeah McKz, Vampiric Tutor is a great tutor. Not sure what I'd take out to make room for it at the moment so I might Ponder it for a bit.
lil_cheez says... #1
Quicksilver Amulet? Does not trigger Cast abilities but who cares when you can have Emmy or Ulamog by the turn 5?
Also maybe you could try Rakdos, Lord of Riots. Attack with an Eldrazi, cast Rakdos, then cast other Eldrazi for free.
September 4, 2016 12:06 p.m.