Eternal Scourge

Creature — Eldrazi Horror

You may cast Eternal Scourge from exile.

When Eternal Scourge becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, exile it.

Combos

• Eternal Scourge + Food Chain
• Eternal Scourge + God-Pharaoh's Gift

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
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (49)

plakjekaas on When is it Acceptable, if …

1 month ago

I feel like Squee, the Immortal, Misthollow Griffin and Eternal Scourge have a spot in this conversation, even though they're mostly just Food ChainGC combo pieces.

jsnrice on Atraxa, Grand Unifier

6 months ago

Deck Title: Ascension Through Unity – Atraxa cEDH Food Chain

Commander

Atraxa, Grand Unifier
Color Identity: {B}{G}{U}{W}

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Introduction

Welcome to Ascension Through Unity, a competitive EDH build centered around Atraxa, Grand Unifier, the ultimate value engine and a uniquely powerful commander that bridges midrange resilience with combo potential. This list leverages the raw card advantage of Atraxa’s ETB trigger to dig for win conditions, interaction, and fast mana — all while supporting a Food Chain combo core.

This deck is tuned for high-level pods and aims to win fast, interact precisely, and grind smart when necessary.

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Win Conditions

Primary Wincon:
- Food Chain + Eternal Scourge / Misthollow Griffin / Flesh Duplicate
Infinite creature mana via Food Chain and one of the exile-recurring creatures.
→ Cast Atraxa, Grand Unifier, dig for Thassa's OracleGC or Tainted Pact / Demonic Consultation combo.

Backup Wincons:
- Thassa's OracleGC + Tainted Pact / Demonic Consultation
- Finale of Devastation for lethal with infinite mana
- Displacer Kitten combos with The One RingGC, Teferi, Time Raveler, or mana rocks for infinite value/actions

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Notable Synergies

• Atraxa, Grand Unifier ETB + Displacer Kitten: Abuse blink triggers for maximum card filtering and pseudo-storm turns.
• Food Chain + Exile creatures: Efficient engine for infinite mana into Atraxa chains.
• Talion, the Kindly Lord + low-cost spell density = passive draw engine.
• Drannith MagistrateGC, Opposition AgentGC, Orcish Bowmasters: Stax elements that don’t disrupt our own lines.
• Archivist of Oghma, Esper Sentinel, Mystic Remora, Rhystic StudyGC: Passive card draw galore.

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Staples and Interaction

This deck plays nearly every blue interaction spell you’d expect: - Free Countermagic: Force of WillGC, Force of Negation, Pact of Negation, Mindbreak Trap, Flusterstorm
- Removal: Swords to Plowshares, Abrupt Decay, Chain of Vapor, Toxic Deluge, Culling Ritual
- Tutors: Vampiric TutorGC, Demonic TutorGC, Worldly Tutor, Enlightened TutorGC, Imperial SealGC

And it runs every relevant fast mana: - Mana Crypt, Lotus Petal, Chrome MoxGC, Mox DiamondGC, Mox Opal, Mana VaultGC, Ancient TombGC

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Why Atraxa?

While many commanders offer value, Atraxa’s Grand Unifier trigger is uniquely broken in a deck like this. With a proper build, she can hit: - A creature (e.g. Eternal Scourge, Deathrite Shaman)
- A non-creature spell (e.g. Demonic Consultation)
- An instant (e.g. Swan Song, An Offer You Can't Refuse)
- A sorcery (e.g. Finale of Devastation)
- An artifact (e.g. Sol Ring)
- An enchantment (e.g. Rhystic StudyGC)
- A planeswalker (e.g. Teferi, Time Raveler)

This makes Atraxa a one-card value engine that refills your hand and pivots you into a win turn with proper sequencing.

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Power Level & Goals

This deck is firmly cEDH (power level 9.5–10). It’s built for pods where interaction is heavy, turns are fast, and wins are clean.

You’ll thrive if: - You can protect Atraxa, Grand Unifier for at least one trigger
- You pilot your combo lines efficiently
- You mulligan aggressively for interaction or ramp

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Mulligan Strategy

Look for: - Turn 1–2 dorks/rocks + tutor
- Food Chain + exile creature opener
- Strong card draw pieces + interaction
- Always mull away clunky high-CMC hands

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Weaknesses

• Susceptible to Drannith MagistrateGC (unless we remove it)
• Hate for graveyard/exile recursion (Rest in Peace, etc.)
• Heavy counterspell matchups if we stumble on mana

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Closing Thoughts

Atraxa, Grand Unifier doesn’t just unify card types — she unifies power, control, and combo under one elegantly devastating package. Whether you’re tutoring with efficiency or slamming a turn 4 Food Chain win, this deck rewards mastery and punishes hesitation. Perfect for cEDH players who love versatility and inevitability.

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Thanks for reading! Let me know if you want a sideboard package or metagame tweaks.

Icbrgr on Make It Work

6 months ago

Well what's the plan? Is the commander supposed to be a win condition or an engine? Eternal Scourge may be a great enabler for this commander to draw cards?

MalPrac on Exile Focus Commander/Deck?

1 year ago

FormOverFunction, fair point on both comments and yeah i understand not every deck can have the perfect commander for what it does. Not to say i wont include cards like Theater of Horrors but more so those cards are very common so im just trying to find some more unique examples beyond the usual "exile card from library or deck then cast"

Upon looking at some more recent cards / spoilers from Duskmourn seemed to have something to the effect of what im looking for with Winter, Cynical Opportunist. Multicolor and depending on whats exiled he can recast 1 useful thing and maybe another thing like Eternal Scourge or just take Riftsweeper to get something back later.

MalPrac on Exile Focus Commander/Deck?

1 year ago

Been brainstorming a deck for awhile but cant seem to find the right commander for it. Been wanting to make a deck that tries to mess around with Exiling cards but cant seem to find the right commander for it.

Trying to find more options beyond the typical "exile card(s) from hand or top of library to cast"

Legendary creatures on the right path but prefer other or more colors
-Edgin, Larcenous Lutenist
-Senu, Keen-Eyed Protector
-Squee, the Immortal

Some card examples of what im looking for -Eternal Scourge
-Void Attendant
-Riftsweeper
-Sadistic Sacrament
-Rootcoil Creeper
-Misthollow Griffin

SufferFromEDHD on Pia Goes Brrrrr

1 year ago

Ancient Den, Great Furnace and Goblin Welder non-combat damage triggers.

Eternal Scourge and Squee, the Immortal infinite castings from exile.

Loyal Apprentice and Retrofitter Foundry efficient thopter generators.

Conspiracy Theorist repeatable impulse draw.

Cosmic Intervention protection that triggers.

Gidgetimer on Salty Commanders!

2 years ago

My issue with using metashare as a metric is that the "metashare" Commander Spellbook uses is how many commander decks on EDHRec it is in, and most decks on there are not intended to be optimized. It also skews the weighting unduly toward colorless or mono-color combos. I hate to keep referring to my deck, but I find examples useful. To illustrate the mono-color bias Food Chain+Eternal Scourge is weighted at almost twice Food Chain+Misthollow Griffin. In a deck that includes both colors and has a functional mana base the combos are functionally identical except for the Griffin costing an extra mana. I could see knocking off 10-20% of the points for the one extra mana, but a full 50% seems... excessive.

To get a truly accurate picture of combo power one would need to take a percentage of the non-land cards that are involved in combos. Then weight it with average combo size (excluding the commander); result of the combo; both number and efficiency of tutors that find combo pieces; and total MV of all combo pieces.

This would be incredibly hard to automate though. So, to hit the high points and only use data that is already in your analytics I would probably go with combo pieces with a weighting value for tutors and a small one for size of combos. Once you set up a way to get the results of the combo you could add in a weighing value for game winning combos.

Gidgetimer on Salty Commanders!

2 years ago

I was using Chrome and I checked it on Edge too. I have to take the browser out of full screen and make it a narrow window to be able to see everything.

https://www.commandersalt.com/#/details/deck/82b74a8df62b69bead80eabaca53e0a8

https://www.commandersalt.com/#/details/deck/b65e5a7526220a2af4d3d2ee7a0cbdc1

Those are the all-in combo decks that I uploaded and think that the combo scores are low on. Additionally I'm really not sure what significance meta share has on weighing the salt of combos. To my mind Eternal Scourge+Food Chain (with a not included in the list Chulane) at adding 5 points would be the same level of salt from people as Chulane, Teller of Tales + Overburden + Shrieking Drake which is only adding 0.6. Both are infinite draw into a Thoracle. If anything an Overburden out for a turn cycle makes people saltier about the game when you spread the combo pieces over two turns.

https://www.commandersalt.com/#/details/deck/9b36c509bd295cf49f38e2d1e315b101

Is the one that was including the non-existent Passionate Archaeologist in the Aggravated Assault combos. Though now the Aggravated Assault combos aren't showing at all. I looked at the combos on this non-combo deck since it was displaying as higher than the Chulane deck.