Zhulodok, Void Gorger

Commander / EDH

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Land (35)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Crystal Grotto
• 1x Eldrazi Temple
• 1x Eye of Ugin
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Guildless Commons
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Ruins of Oran-Rief
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Sea Gate Wreckage
• 1x Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x The Grey Havens
• 1x Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Tower
• 1x War Room
• 7x Wastes
• 1x Zhalfirin Void

Instant (5)

• 1x Desecrate Reality
• 1x Not of this World
• 1x Spatial Contortion
• 1x Titan's Presence
• 1x Warping Wail

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Eldrazi Conscription
• 1x Ugin's Mastery

Artifact (29)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Darksteel Monolith
• 1x Dreamstone Hedron
• 1x Forsaken Monument
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Horizon Stone
• 1x Kaldra Compleat
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Mithril Coat
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Palantir of Orthanc
• 1x Planar Atlas
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Portal to Phyrexia
• 1x Quicksilver Amulet
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Stonespeaker Crystal
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x The Immortal Sun *f-etch*
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Sorcery (3)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Calamity of the Titans
• 1x Rise of the Eldrazi

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Commander (1)

Creature (23)

• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Bane of Bala Ged
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Breaker of Armies
• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Deceiver of Form
• 1x Flayer of Loyalties
• 1x Geode Golem
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Karn, Legacy Reforged
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Palladium Myr
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x Skittering Cicada
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

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Sideboard

Creature (14)

• 1x Abstruse Archaic
• 1x Ancient Stone Idol
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Eldrazi Mimic
• 1x Endbringer
• 1x Matter Reshaper
• 1x Myriad Construct
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Scaretiller
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stonecoil Serpent
• 1x Suspicious Bookcase

Artifact (7)

• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Fireshrieker
• 1x Perilous Vault
• 1x Thran Temporal Gateway
• 1x Transmogrifying Wand
• 1x Unstable Obelisk

Land (1)

• 1x Spawning Bed

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Maybeboard

Artifact (7)

• 1x Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
• 1x Blinkmoth Urn
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Fractured Powerstone
• 1x Helm of the Host
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sword of the Animist

Creature (3)

• 1x Cityscape Leveler
• 1x Copper Gnomes
• 1x Metalwork Colossus

Land (1)

• 1x Thespian's Stage

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Gruesome Slaughter
• 1x Introduction to Prophecy

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This deck isn't very complicated. Zhulodok, Void Gorger is basically the platonic ideal of battlecruiser decks.

Pros

• This deck plays the biggest, nastiest beaters in Magic
• Some cards like Forsaken Monument provide incredible support and makes casting the massive cards in your deck much easier
• Your late game is very difficult to beat, and playing Rise of the Eldrazi or similar will usually win you the game
• You only ever use {C}, so any source that provides {C} effectively provides one mana of any color. This is great because cards like Horizon Stone are even better than in other decks, and you can play lands like Zhalfirin Void or Crystal Grotto without the drawback of them only providing {C}
• War Room and Commander's Plate provide the maximum possible value, so they're incredibly efficient
• Your deck completely ignores cards like Mother of Runes and Apostle's Blessing
• All is Dust is a high cost but devastating one-sided board wipe, and allows you to steal your opponent's permanents with It That Betrays

Cons

All of the problems in building colorless come back to the same root cause: colorless is the lack of a color identity more than it is its own color identity. Magic is balanced around the idea that doing cool or powerful things are gated behind splashing colors, so automatically most of the good cards in the game is either completely unavailable, overcosted, or underpowered. This means colorless decks have objectively the worst card selection of any color identity in the game: your spot removal sucks, your ramp is mediocre, your counterspells are all very fickle, and your creatures mostly suck until the end of your curve. If any of these options were good, every deck would also play them (see: Sol Ring, Swiftfoot Boots, The One Ring, etc). It also means that the handful of cards that are good are extremely pricey because everyone can play them.

If you want a deck that ramps into big powerful creatures and is actually good at doing that, it's probably better to play a commander that has access to {G} (like Selvala, Heart of the Wilds or Morophon, the Boundless) so you can access much better ramp.

Tips

• Palantir of Orthanc is deadlier than it looks because you have so many extremely high mana value cards in your deck.
• Annihilator is devastating. Attacking with a creature with annihilator just a couple times can unrecoverably cripple a player's board.
• As soon as you get Planar Bridge out, you should have a very direct line to winning in a handful of turns. Aim for cards like Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, Akroma's Memorial, Darksteel Monolith, Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, or Blightsteel Colossus.
• Consider Platinum Angel if your opponents play cards that win the game (like Thassa's Oracle) or cause you to lose (like Strixhaven Stadium). Likewise, consider Platinum Emperion if your opponents tend to get very wide boards but have very little targeted damage/removal.
• Wastes does not have a basic land type, so lots of cards referring to the type of a basic land won't work: for example, Myriad Landscape can only fetch a single Wastes, rather than two.

What do I do if my opponent plays Void Mirror?

You only need a single colored mana to cast a spell without triggering Void Mirror. If you have something like Gilded Lotus, don't spend all that mana on a single spell if you want to cast other spells that turn. If you don't have an artifact or land that can produce colored mana, you can still cheat cards out with Planar Bridge or Quicksilver Amulet. If all else fails, your best bet is to keep attacking its controller with an annihilator creature until they sacrifices it.

What do I do if an opponent overloads Break the Ice?

You'd better hope you have enough mana rocks, a big board, or Darksteel Monolith already on the field or you're probably out of the game for several turns.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	11 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 3 Mythic Rares 35 - 12 Rares 31 - 5 Uncommons 7 - 2 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	5.46
Tokens	City's Blessing, Construct 1/1 C, Construct 6/12 C, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Manifest 2/2 C, Ox 2/4 W, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Spirit 2/2 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Commander