An aggro-control deck, the goal here is to counter or exile your opponents first few plays until you can get into your curve of creatures at turn 3. Eldrazi Displacer and Reflector Mage are a combo that most creature decks just can't power through, so getting the both of them into play ASAP is top priority in the early game. Thought-Knot Seer is an absolute house unless you get hit with Grasp of Darkness. That card is a killer, as is Languish, but against the creature decks in the format, like Bant Company and G/W Tokens, it absolutely dominates. Dragonlord Ojutai is next on the curve and almost requires no comment, except to say that you're probably better off not attacking with it but holding it up as a hexproof blocker until you can hit an Ulamog. I may replace Ojutai with Reality Smasher as it lives through Languish and has faux hexproof as well. Next up is Drowner of Hope, which really shines in combination with Eldrazi Displacer. Not only does it give you a bunch of blockers and a way to tap down the opponents creatures and get in for damage, but it really helps to ramp up to Ulamog. The next few spots on the curve are empty, Ulamog being the next hit at 10, but by this point you should have ramped in such a way that you can go from 6 to 10 fairly easily. Speaking of ramp, let's talk about how we're planning to do that here. The first and foremost source of big mana is Mage-Ring Network. You want to land one of these on turn one and charge it every turn that you are able to. Eventually it will have 5 or 6 counters on it and will make casting Ulamog pretty trivial. Shrine of the Forsaken Gods helps with this too, but is not quite as good as the Network. Lastly we have Knight of the White Orchid, which can help to ramp you if you play it correctly.Thanks for reading everyone, comments and suggestions are welcome!

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Date added 8 years
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Legality

This deck is not Standard legal.

Rarity (main - side)

4 - 0 Mythic Rares

30 - 0 Rares

14 - 0 Uncommons

4 - 0 Commons

Cards 60
Avg. CMC 3.56
Tokens Clue, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C
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