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Commander: Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

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"We don't allow no colored cards in this here deck, sonny boy."

The obvious point of the deck is to spam mana rocks and ramp into Ulamog or an equally dangerous threat asap. The addition of Wastes to the game has made colorless ramping easier then ever before, as cards like Burnished Hart, Solemn Simulacrum and Journeyer's Kite can now be utilized. Colorless has a usable amount of janky removal, ranging from spot removal like Brittle Effigy and Scour from Existence, to board wipes like All Is Dust, Oblivion Stone and even Ugin, the Spirit Dragon's -X ability.

Granted, the deck is very reliant on mana rocks to speed up Ulamog's arrival, so any mass-artifact removal like Vandalblast or Shattering Spree really hampers our progress. There's really no reliable way to defend against it outside of Darksteel Forge, which I personally think is a waste of time and mana, as once you hit nine mana in this deck you should be dropping threats, not more rocks. So the threat of mass artifact removal remains, but on the plus side this deck can often ramp to ten mana by turn five, so hopefully you can cast Ulamog before the red player's turn rolls around and they can Overload a Vandalblast.

I'm still debating over which Ulamog to use as my commander, as they each have their pros and cons. Both are indestructible 10/10's that remove threats when they are cast, but then function quite differently once they hit the field. Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre is more about wrecking the field with Annihilator 4, making him arguably the more devastating of his two forms, as once he starts swinging, the defending player's resources begin to quickly disappear. Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, on the other hand, is more about taking huge gouges out of people's libraries, limiting their options before they even get the chance to use them. He also comes out a turn earlier then Gyre, and exiles TWO threats when cast rather then destroying one. Lacking Annihilator does make him devastating, but Annihilator is such a universally hated mechanic by everyone not using it themselves that NOT having it on your commander makes you less of a target in multiplayer games. Everyone wants to kill the guy that eats four of their hard-cast permanents, but not everyone is as upset by the guy that simply eats 1/5 of someone's library whenever he attacks. For these reasons, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger is my commander (for now). And this may change when Emrakul 2.0 shows up in Shadows Over Innistrad, assuming she doesn't get insta-banned from EDH.

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Date added 9 years
Last updated 9 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

13 - 0 Mythic Rares

34 - 0 Rares

30 - 0 Uncommons

15 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 4.73
Tokens Copy Clone, Goat 0/1 W, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
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