Is Ulamog legal EDH general? Land types?
Asked by Ilovespiders 12 years ago
Can I use Ulamog, the Infinte Gyre as an EDH general? and if so, could you use any kind of basic lands in the deck? Or would you be restricted to lands that add colorless mana only?
besides cards that state they can produce any colored mana, your pretty much stuck with colorless mana producing lands
April 27, 2013 9:28 p.m.
Yes, no, and yes, respectively.
Here are the commander rues, where you can check card-legality for yourself, and where they explain that color identity dictates that land's color identity have to match the commander's.
In short, color identity is determined by all instances of mana symbols appearing on a card, rules text, and by color-indicator (if applicable). And since all basic lands have "T: add [RELEVANT COLOR] to you mana pool," they all have colored identity.
A colorless commander needs all colorless lands.
Good luck.
April 27, 2013 9:34 p.m.
JaredMatthewsArtwork says... #4
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn is illegal, but Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and Kozilek, Butcher of Truth are both legal. Yes you will have to use all nonbasic colorless lands, as basic lands are colorless but have a "color identity" of whatever color they tap for.
April 27, 2013 9:34 p.m.
The mana base of colorless generals is EXPENSIVE if you want it to be any good. All of the good artifact mana and generators of colorless mana are not cheap.
April 27, 2013 9:36 p.m.
SandyDufresne says... #7
Quick question: Since Command Tower says to add a mana of any color that is in your commander's color identity, doesn't it produce nothing since Kozilek is colorless and the rules clearly state that colorless is not a color? Doesn't this make Command Tower a dead card in colorless EDH?
April 27, 2013 11:12 p.m.
http404error says... #8
Command Tower is indeed useless in colorless EDH, although it's legal to have in your deck.
I guess Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth would work in combination with it. I think that's legal in colorless.
April 27, 2013 11:47 p.m.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth would indeed work. Your lands would become Swamps in addition to their other colors, which would allow cards like Command Tower and Meteor Crater to tap for black mana, which would then become colorless due to Commander rules.
April 27, 2013 11:57 p.m.
JamesKrell says... #10
Played with a guy who had an Ulamog deck. One player played collective voyage.
sigh166 says... #1
Yes, its a legal general (you can use http://mtgcommander.net/rules.php to find out what cards are legal). If the land has a color symbol on it its illegal, (so no basics), however things like Command Tower are.
April 27, 2013 9:27 p.m.