Kozilek, or How I Learned to Ramp and Love Bombs

Commander / EDH Competitive Eldrazi Ramp

TildeGunderson

Equipment (3)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Lands (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Darksteel Citadel
• 1x Desert
• 1x Dread Statuary
• 1x Eldrazi Temple
• 1x Encroaching Wastes
• 1x Eye of Ugin
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x High Market
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Inkmoth Nexus
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Mage-Ring Network
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Radiant Fountain
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 1x Scorched Ruins
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 1x Springjack Pasture
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Urza's Factory
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Tower
• 1x Wastes

Other Stuff (13)

• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Mirrorworks
• 1x Orbs of Warding
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sculpting Steel
• 1x Storm Cauldron
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Torpor Orb
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Winter Orb

Powerplays (10)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Ramp (25)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Helm of Awakening
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mox Opal
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Pristine Talisman
• 1x Seer's Lantern
• 1x Semblance Anvil
• 1x Sisay's Ring
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Ur-Golem's Eye
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Removal (7)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Brittle Effigy
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Steel Hellkite

Tutors or Draw Spells (7)

• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Pilgrim's Eye
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Staff of Nin

Commander (1)

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This deck is where nightmares are born, cultivated, and unleashed.

This is a colourless ramp deck which focuses on getting Kozilek, Butcher of Truth as quickly as possible. If Kozilek gets Darksteel Mutation'ed, Arrested, or otherwise stopped, you have a few other win conditions, such as Blightsteel Colossus, or his other Eldrazi brethren (including his second permeation).

It's my most competitive and expensive deck, but I generally don't like playing with it. It doesn't represent how I play Magic, being as I'd like EDH games to last at least double-digit turns. This deck is more or less around in case someone starts strutting their stuff, gets too big for their britches, and needs a reality check.

Pros:

• Card Advantage: Kozilek draws you four cards, whether he gets countered or not. If you lose him to removal, you'll most likely get some spells to compensate for the loss. The deck also has some other card advantage options.

• Hyper Aggressive: Can spit out Kozilek and attack by turn 3 (as long as the stars are aligned). Otherwise, it's difficult to deal with a 12/12 that keeps refilling your hand as you kill him.

• Competitive: The above statement should tell you all you need to know.

• Can be made cheaper: You can play this deck with just Wastes, shaving off a bit of the cost of this deck. You could also look to replace some of the eldrazi's and Blightsteel with less expensive eldrazi (like Artisan of Kozilek, Desolation Twin, or Breaker of Armies) or artifact creatures (like Colossus of Akros or Metalwork Colossus). Ramp elements are highly necessary, though.

Cons:

• Still Expensive: Many of the good colourless spells cost well over $4, so this isn't much of a deck option if you're on a budget or are planning on starting to get into EDH. Even Kozilek by himself may be over your budget options.

• Makes you into the villain: A deck that's not only very aggressive, but also expensive, spells out that you're looking for that victory. You'll be quickly outed as the 'villain' of the table, whether they've played against the deck before or not. Kozilek's a telling sign that this deck's powerful.

• Attack-Based Victory: If you can't attack, you've more or less lost. You can find answers to that, but you can only get so many in colourless.

• Fragile: Shatterstorm, Creeping Corrosion, or any other "Destroy all artifacts/non-land permanents" spell demolish this deck. Without a good mana rock base, this deck stagnates and doesn't do that well.

If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears!

Thank you for reading!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 35 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.29
Tokens	Assembly-Worker 2/2 C, Copy Clone, Goat 0/1 W, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink