Unnatural Aggression

Instant

Devoid (This card has no colour.)

Target creature you control fights target creature an opponent controls. If the creature an opponent controls would die this turn, exile it instead. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (36)

golgarigirl on

3 years ago

Other ideas to speed us up: Urza's Incubator, Ugin, the Ineffable, Herald's Horn, Golos, Tireless Pilgrim, Chromatic Lantern, Arcane Signet, Fist of Suns, Kozilek's Channeler I don't know if just more scion-makers are a good idea here too.

Other ideas to draw us fuel: Mystic Forge, Vanquisher's Banner, Fathom Feeder

Other ideas to close out games: Molten Nursery, Barrage Tyrant, Dread Defiler

Other support pieces: Ruination Guide, Tide Drifter, Warping Wail, Scour from Existence, Grip of Desolation, Unnatural Aggression, Eldrazi Mimic

Khaleid on Plated Crusher

4 years ago

Thanks for the suggestions lonesentinel and Podkomorka.
To make room for Ambuscade, Band Together, Lignify, Ram Through (which is strictly better than Pounce), and Unnatural Aggression, I decided to drop the Primal Druid as suggested, as well as the Viridian Emissary (which does basically the same thing).
Not feeling comfortable going down to 35 lands, I opted to only drop Khalni Garden, and both Forge of Heroes and Opal Palace (as I rarely need to recast my commander).

mynameisfifi on New Veteran on the Block

4 years ago

Flooremoji I will take this into consideration, thanks!

My only concern about Cloak is that shroud removes my ability to make the most out of my "fight" effects like Unnatural Aggression. If I start to encounter an even higher density of removal in my playgroup (which is a response that may very well happen now that I've introduced this deck to the meta) then I think Cloak will become useful. For the time being, I'm getting away with not running it.

Podkomorka on Plated Crusher

4 years ago

You MUST have:

• Ambuscade
• Band Together
• Pounce
• Unnatural Aggression
• Lignify
• Return to Earth

You can make room by taking the above tips and removing lands down to 35 as well as removing a random card that doesnt really fit the deck like Primal Druid and that should make room.

sagramore on Fight Club [Rhonas]

5 years ago

Hey again!

Predatory Urge looks good, it's not a card I have but definitely worth a try. Slightly harder to remove than the Ulvenwald Tracker too, which is nice. Also if it's on Rhonas then you're less likely to get 2-for-1'd by Rhonas being removed.

You're correct that I swapped out Unnatural Aggression for Band Together . It's not necessarily a great swap but as you mentioned, it's a one-sided effect and lets you gang up if you're trying to remove something big. That being said, Rhonas is so cheap to cast that I generally only fight with my commander so one-sided effects aren't such a big deal in my experience, although you might have a different experience! Let me know :)

Triangle of War seems OK as well. I take your point about it being on the board rather than in your hand but ultimately it's just another 3-mana "fight" spell unless you plan to re-cast it after a Regrowth or something, but you could do that with any of the fight spells really. Seems fine if you need another fight spell, but otherwise I don't see a huge advantage for it.

AutomaticFrenzy on Fight Club [Rhonas]

5 years ago

That comment about flying makes sense, I'm not used to having such nice creature removal as green!

For board wipes, I was thinking of including something like Predatory Urge in place of one of the fight instants/sorceries. It's similar to Ulvenwald Tracker , making the fight into a per turn ability means I can save cards in my hand and be in a better position after a wipe. But with the amount of card draw in the deck, it might not be necessary/good to save too many cards

I also was wondering if Unnatural Aggression was meant to be replaced by Band Together . It's what the changelog implies, but I wanted to check.

Does it often come up that you fight using someone other than the commander where one-sided fighting cards would be better, like Aggressive Instinct or Clear Shot . Having lower cost cards as well as instants vs sorceries is better, but only if there's no advantage to one-side fighting. Commander being indestructible helps a ton, but I wanted to know if you ran into scenarios where having one-sided would have been better.

Only other card I was gonna suggest/ask you about is Triangle of War , this deck has a lot of draw, which is very nice, so being able to have one of your fight cards on the table instead of in your hand seems useful.

ar9000 on U/G Eldrazi Pauper

5 years ago

Thanks for the advice, Gattison! I think that I will switch out Unnatural Aggression for either Prey Upon or Rabid Bite , since the exile part isn't necessarily too important, since I have cards with ingest. My main goal with this deck is essentially to create scion tokens to play more creatures or larger creatures, which I can swing with to win. In my opinion, the ingest mechanic is almost like a bonus in my deck; since I'll be swinging anyways, I might as well exile some cards while I'm at it. I can then use those cards if I need to by using Oracle of Dust to cycle through my deck for the larger creatures, or with Ruin Processor to gain life if I'm running low. As far as running other eldrazi cards, I just made this deck with cards that are already in my collection, so I don't have a lot of selection to choose from. I think I also will switch out Titanic Growth for Giant Growth , if I have enough copies.

As far as generating , I can actually generate with the scion tokens and Kozilek's Channeler . The reason that they do not have the symbol is because it was introduced in OGW, and these cards came out in BFZ. The rules for such cards have since been adjusted at accommodate for cards like these; for example, if you check out the tokens or Kozilek's Channeler on the Gatherer, you will see that they produce instead of generic, just as Sol Ring produces instead of generic now.

I appreciate your feedback and suggestions! I'll get to test it tonight hopefully, so we'll see how it runs!

Gattison on U/G Eldrazi Pauper

5 years ago

Prey Upon or Rabid Bite are cheaper versions of Unnatural Aggression , but Ancient Animus is an instant-speed version. None of them exile upon resolution, but I don't know how much you're focusing on "ingesting/processing" with this deck. You might be better off replacing all the processing stuff with more basic eldrazi stuff. I've attempted several processor builds before (in pauper and in Standard) and it always seems very build-around-me to me, so I'd be interested in your thoughts on this. Does processing distract your deck at all?

Also, you have no way to generate currently, so Kozilek's Pathfinder cannot be activated. Try Crumbling Vestige in place of Evolving Wilds maybe? It generates a colored mana as you play it, and then colorless afterwards.

Finally, Giant Growth is a cheaper Titanic Growth which you may or may not need.