Sludge Crawler

Creature — Eldrazi Drone

Devoid (This card has no color)

Ingest (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player exiles the top card of his or her library)

{2} : Sludge Crawler gets +1/+1 until end of turn

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
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 (50)

paperhead on Challenge Accepted Dimir: Eldrazi Style

1 year ago

Try this to speed up a little.
-3 Ulamog's Crusher \ +3 Sludge Crawler.
-6 Wastes \ +2 Sanctum of Ugin +4 Sunken Hollow.
I believe those cards are all from your chosen expansion, and should help colour fix your early game a little.

KaptnK on

2 years ago

Saw this deck list requesting help so ill provide some feedback here. First of all love the idea of winning with Eldrazi spawn tokens! I do feel though that you have too many creatures in the deck and could use some more utility spells to smooth out your games and push you towards your goal. I am not sure of your budget so ill try to keep that in mind with my feedback. Some ideas of this would be:

• Remove Benthic Infiltrator for Awakening Zone
• Remove Culling Drone for Arcane Signet
• Remove Dominator Drone for Sol Ring
• Remove Fathom Feeder for Baleful Strix
• Remove Mist Intruder for All Is Dust
• Remove Nettle Drone for Rhystic Study
• Remove Ruthless Deathfang for Dictate of Erebos or Grave Pact although the second is harder to cast
• Remove Salvage Drone for Ponder or Preordain or a similar spell
• Remove Sludge Crawler and Vestige of Emrakul for Dimir Signet or Golgari Signet or Gruul Signet or Izzet Signet or Rakdos Signet or Simic Signet

For your lands you look to be missing Command Tower which could easily replace a basic land. Additionally you could look to add the new triome lands Zagoth Triome to help with your colour fixing.

Finally you could look at some finishers like Overwhelming Stampede or Triumph of the Hordes to go with your "go wide" strategy.

Some general things to think about. You look like you need some more card draw and mana ramp (hence some of my suggestions above) but also need some additional removal spells to slow down everyone else while you get your army built.

Hope some of this helps!

Chuckasaurus on Onyx Chaos

5 years ago

Thank you so much Silverdrake!! I hadn't even considered wrench mind until now. Definitely seems like a better option here. I had the 1 drops there when it was still a semi-normal black control deck. I think the only creature with less than five power that I should even consider keeping would be Sludge Crawler. Thanks again

Gattison on U/B Ingest

6 years ago

Unfortunately, Prophet of Distortion, Blighted Cataract, Adverse Conditions & Cryptic Cruiser are all uncommons only, and therefore not pauper legal.

Crumbling Vestige could replace the land, maybe. otherwise I would just go up to 4x Evolving Wilds because it combos so nicely with Brainstorm.

I would put those 3 Slip Through Spaces in place of the 3 Adverse Conditions.

Instead of the Prophet, maybe do +1 Sludge Crawler, +1 Salvage Drone and +1 Benthic Infiltrator?

Grasp of Darkness (was printed as a common previously) will be more effective than Tar Snare (and probably just as hard/easy to cast), but there's also Terror and Unsummon/Vapor Snag to consider.

RavingRaccoon on Ashiok and elspeth's island adventure

6 years ago

I would drop the 4x Think Twice in the main for 4x Mana Leak, and drop 3x Sludge Crawler, 3x Soldier of the Pantheon, 1x Torment of Hailfire, and 1 Duress from the side for 3x Spreading Seas for Tron, 3x Rest in Peace or 3x Leyline of the Void for Graveyard decks, and 2x Stony Silence for Affinity or Lantern control. This is without knowing your local meta though, so a grain of salt maybe required.

Wahrghoul84 on W/b Eldrazi Taxes

6 years ago

@ToolmasterOfBrainerd, Sludge Crawler does work. He may be a 1/1, but with his pump ability, he doesn't stay small. It may be mana hungry, but in a deck with Eldrazi Temple it's not that bad. I am never sad to see him and my opponents are never happy to see him. As for the curve thing, look up a few B/W Eldrazi Taxes lists...

ToolmasterOfBrainerd on W/b Eldrazi Taxes

6 years ago

Sludge Crawler doesn't seem very good. Although it can exile cards for wasteland strangler, as a 1/1 it won't be damaging players very often. I'd recommend Judge's Familiar or Thraben Inspector instead.

Also for the correct mana curve, you should be playing 8 or 9 1-drop creatures. I guess extra removal could balance it out, but the tempo loss of no turn 1 play hurts a lot.

NobleGhost117 on Eldrazi exile

6 years ago

Alright, okay. Sit down, buckle in because as someone who loves Eldrazi there's a few suggestions that you may just love for this deck.

If this deck is based around exiling your opponent's stuff (be it library or on the field), then mana ramping into big eldrazi to finish off the game, you're gonna want a rather focused deck. Things like Drownyard Behemoth aren't great because, in order for you to reduce it's cost to something practical, you either need to sacrifice your big finishers OR one or two mana dorks. Neither of these are great. Instead there's a very interesting finisher in Ulamog's Despoiler. It costs less mana for a larger creature that will beat your opponents down faster.

The other problem with the current concept is your average converted mana cost for your stuff. Right now it's 5.70. To put that in perspective, on average to cast something in your deck you're going to need 6 mana. Even if you have a few mana dorks on the field, you won't have a noteworthy field presence until at least turn 4. What you're gonna want to do is add lower cost creatures and remove some higher cost ones that don't really impact the game immediately. I'll break down specifics below:

Blisterpod: Great early blocker that turns into mana. 10/10 would include in ramp.

Eldrazi Skyspawner: Same as above, except you get the mana right away AND you get a flier.

Fathom Feeder: Holy crap is this guy value. A 1/1 deathtoucher that ingests. Your opponents are damned if they block, damned if they don't. Not to mention he's late game card draw with ingest. Absolute favorite low-cost eldrazi right there.

Sludge Crawler: A cheap ingester that is pumpable late game. Easy include

Wasteland Strangler: Stat-wise this guy kinda sucks, but if you ingested a card earlier in the game, he turns into a 3/2 for 3 mana that is also a potential kill-spell on a stick. Brain blast.

Oblivion Sower: This guy is no joke. He's a mid-cost eldrazi that will not only exile your opponent's top few cards, he will also potentially ramp into more mana that will help you cast even more big things.

Finally there's a few non-creatures I want to talk about. You have From Beyond for constant mana-ramp, as well as tutoring for an Eldrazi card. A good 1- or 2-of in the deck. For more control cards, you have Transgress the Mind for hand-hate and Titan's Presence for easy removal if you have a large eldrazi in your hand. Remember that anything with Devoid is considered colorless, so you could reveal a Dread Defiler and it would still be fine.

Hope this helped, and I'm sorry if I came off as angry or rude. I really love the deck concept :)