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The Void Shall be Your Way

Commander / EDH* Bracket 3

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Artifact (34)

Instant (1)

Land (38)

Planeswalker (3)

Enchantment (1)

Commander (1)

Commander: foil Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Creature (20)

Sorcery (2)

Deck concept: Kozilek, Butcher of Truth is among the most straightforward Commanders you can choose, when building a colourless Eldrazi deck. Having an Opportunity stapled to a giant annihilating beast in your Command zone is no joke, so all you have to do is make sure the deck can generate enough Mana to cast your titanic threats. Annihilator as a mechanic will not make you the most popular player at the table, but your Eldrazi titans are sure to make a huge splash on the battlefield.

Restrictions: there is currently no restriction applied to the deck. I have tried and avoid any weird combo that felt out of flavour, so most of the list is Mana rocks and huge Eldrazi monsters, with the occasional Planeswalker to tie everything together.

Strengths and weaknesses: on their own, Eldrazi titans are among the most powerful cards in the format, often warping the entire game around their presence. Playing this deck will make you feel like you have the most commanding and imposing presence at the entire table, as a single swing from Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger can dramatically set an opponent back. However, you are far from playing a truly competitive deck, as essentially your entire strategy consists in the glass cannon plan of playing Mana rocks and ramping into Eldrazi titans. A single overloaded Vandalblast will easily take out most of your board, as the deck relies heavily on artifacts to ramp into your largest threats. You may also have a hard time playing around protection effects like Ensnaring Bridge and Sphere of Safety, as your best bet is just hoping to find some way to remove them. Moreover, you are extremely limited by Kozilek, Butcher of Truth’s colour identity, so Counterspells, Rampant Growths and Doom Blades are few and far between.

How to play the deck: with Artifacts making up for a third of the list and almost forty lands in the deck, you will spend most of your first turns ramping as fast as possible, deploying Mana rocks as quickly as you can, with the occasional Burnished Hart or Solemn Simulacrum joining the fray. An All is Dust or an Ugin, the Spirit Dragon can be an excellent play during the midgame, stifling your opponents’ progresses, while you remain completely unaffected. Once the ten-Mana threshold has been surpassed, you can usually start deploying your largest threats, whether in the form of Kozilek, Butcher of Truth itself, or by means of any other large creature that can immediately impact the board. The number of huge threats you can run in this deck is relatively limited due to their absurd Mana costs, so you really need to be drawing cards even after your first Eldrazi titan has hit the board. Kozilek, Butcher of Truth on its own is great at drawing cards, but Mystic Forge, Kozilek, the Great Distortion and Kozilek, the Broken Reality are among the best options you have to keep the cards coming.

Key cards and notable interactions: Forsaken Monument is probably one of the best cards in the entire deck. It not only serves as a Mana doubler, but it can also gain you huge amounts of life and turn your Eldrazi Spawns and Scions into battle-ready critters. Forsaken Monument can also power up your Basalt Monolith to generate infinite Mana, but the deck doesn’t really have any way of converting that into infinite cards or infinite damage. Not that it really matters, as dumping your entire hand should usually seal the deal on a game.
With their strong focus on supporting colourless strategies, Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, Ugin, the Ineffable and Ugin, Eye of the Storms are great support pieces in the deck: they are not winning you the game straight away, but they will usually provide enough advantage to really push your gameplan forward. Having Ugin supporting the Eldrazi might feel like a flavour fails, but its cards are just too good to pass up.

Evolving the deck: most of the colourless Eldrazi lists look kind of the same, with their core strategy always revolving around Mana rocks and large creature-based threats. Some decks might want to play Kozilek, the Great Distortion as their Commander to gain access to its Counterspell ability, but I’ve felt like annihilator as a mechanic is a bit more proactive and more in line with what the deck is really trying to do. Playing Ulamog, the Infinity Gyre, Emrakul, the Promised End or any other Eldrazi titan as the deck’s Commander are all solid choices, but be aware you would be missing out on Kozilek, Butcher of Truth’s amazing Opportunity ability.

Origin of the deck's name: a verse from "Thanks Nobuo" by Periphery.

Last updated: November 21st, 2025.

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