B/R Eldrazi Aggro

Standard Aggro BR (Rakdos) Eldrazi

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Creature (28)

• 4x Bearer of Silence
• 4x Dominator Drone
• 3x Dust Stalker
• 4x Forerunner of Slaughter
• 4x Reaver Drone
• 3x Sludge Crawler
• 4x Vile Aggregate
• 2x Wasteland Strangler

Land (20)

• 2x Blighted Gorge
• 2x Corrupted Crossroads
• 8x Mountain
• 2x Smoldering Marsh
• 6x Swamp

Artifact (4)

• 4x Ghostfire Blade

Instant (4)

• 4x Wild Slash

Sorcery (4)

• 4x Exquisite Firecraft

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Inverter of Truth

Instant (5)

• 1x Grasp of Darkness
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 3x Reality Hemorrhage

Sorcery (9)

• 4x Duress
• 1x Oblivion Strike
• 2x Roast
• 2x Swarm Surge

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Maybeboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Endless One
• 4x Flayer Drone
• 1x Kozilek's Shrieker

Land (2)

• 2x Swamp

Instant (1)

• 1x Fiery Impulse

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B/R Standard Eldrazi aggro deck centered around heavy usage of the Eldrazi creatures from BFZ and OGW.Its fairly similar to the budget standard Eldrazi Aggro list from mtggoldfish which can be seen here: , but with tweaks here and there to ensure a smoother turn 5 kill.

Try to always mulligan for Reaver Drone and at least a Swamp to start off with. If you have Reaver Drone , a swamp, a mountain and one more land, its typically one of the best hands you can open off with.

As we are running absolutely no draw engines or anything similar, this deck wants to all in and end the game typically by turn 5, which it IS capable of consistently.

Games should typically look like this

Desired scenario

Turn 1 Swamp into Reaver Drone

Turn 2 Mountain OR Corrupted Crossroads into Ghostfire Blade equip unto Reaver Drone OR Reaver Drone OR Forerunner of Slaughter

Turn 3 Any land into Forerunner of Slaughter hasted OR Bearer of Silence hasted

Turn 4 Any land into Dust Stalker OR Vile Aggregate hasted OR Dominator Drone hasted

Turn 5 Wild Slash or Exquisite Firecraft or any hasted creatures

As I have omitted some cards from how they are used as they don't actually lie in the best case scenario, here are some explanations to why they're being played

Creatures

Sludge Crawler : It isn't a bad 1 drop at all, and we run 3 copies, due to the fact that we desperately want to play something turn 1. The ingest effect coupled with the fact that it can become a manasink makes it fairly good as well. However, most of the time, if you can play Reaver Drone turn 1, you'd much rather go with that.

Wasteland Strangler : Amazing tempo card, triggering its effect allows you to break even against another aggro deck or remove a midrange deck's creature(maybe) and have a body on the board at the same time. However, its only a two-off, as we are not centered around ingest too heavily, more towards inflicting as much damage as fast as possible.

Spells

Wild Slash : Strong card, for 2 damage is no joke, easily sniping off a early blocker or in a mirror aggro scenario, allows you to slow your opponent down by abit. Not to mention that it can function as hate against life gain and be used to burn your opponent down.

Exquisite Firecraft : 4 damage for 3CMC is heavy hitting, and one of the reasons why we have more Mountains than Swamps. Functions similar to Wild Slash , and the emphasis on the 4 damage can't be really overlooked

Finally, thanks for looking at this decklist!

Please feel free to leave any advice or criticisms towards the deck and +1s are really appreciated!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Exclude colors	WUG
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	0 - 1 Mythic Rares 21 - 0 Rares 18 - 3 Uncommons 7 - 11 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.12
Folders	BFZ ideas, Mono red suggestions, Ideas