Eldrazi Tribal [75%] (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Featured card: Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Eldrazi Tribal [75%]

Commander / EDH Annihilator Eldrazi Infinite Combo Primer Ramp

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Lands (37)

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Support (12)

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Commander (1)

Commander: foil Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Ramp (18)

Removal (8)

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Eldrazi (4)

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Draw / Filtering (7)

Support (17)

Off-theme (but good) cards (8)

Buffs (7)

Distasteful (but good) cards (3)

Tutors (2)

See Powered Kozilek [99%] for the maximum power version of this deck. I'm keeping this list tribal oriented.

Power level

I prefer a five-point power level, with one being absolute jank and five being cEDH. I'd call this current build a three (3) on that scale, or a seven (7) on a ten-point scale.

Deck description

Eldrazi EDH! The idea behind this deck is to only play Eldrazi creatures (Wandering Archaic is close enough to being an Eldrazi :P) and stick to Eldrazi-adjacent cards when possible. The deck can be made more powerful with the inclusion of colorless staples such as Blightsteel Colossus and others, but I purposefully excluded them. The general is easily changeable based on your pod, but Kozilek, the Great Distortion is probably the strongest in any given playgroup. I like Ulamog in the command zone sometimes as it's removal, but a refill to seven cards and then having the ability to counter stuff is quite strong.

This deck is well tuned and can handle strong pods.

Tidbits:

Activate Eye of Ugin or Inventors' Fair while Kozilek, the Great Distortion is on the battlefield to tutor a card with mana value equal to the mana value of a spell you want to counter.
You can use Lithoform Engine or Strionic Resonator to double up on activated or triggered abilities. Example usages are copying Eye of Ugin activations, annihilator triggers, Eldrazi cast triggers or even an existing Kozilek, the Great Distortion ability to target another spell with the same mana value as the original! There are some cool interactions with Lithoform Engine listed below.
Scavenger Grounds can have multiple activations provided you have other Desert-type lands in play (Desert, Sunscorched Desert).
Skittering Invasion + Deceiver of Form + Conduit of Ruin :)

Eldrazi have strong cast triggers. Cards like Cloudstone Curio, Erratic Portal and Sanctum of Eternity are ways you can return Eldrazi to your hand to abuse said cast triggers. Alternatively, Strionic Resonator and Lithoform Engine let you copy them.

The deck loses hard to flyer swarms if you're not lucky enough to be finding your mass removal, like Ugin, the Spirit Dragon or All is Dust. Be warned. Eldrazi Monument and Akroma's Memorial can help out with flying, but the latter isn't on theme and the former does more to hurt than help. The only reach Eldrazi is World Breaker but its color identity is green...depending on your playgroup you may be allowed to cast it with Spawnsire of Ulamog :)

Another weakness of the deck is mass artifact removal. You rely very heavily on low cost ramp artifacts to speed out your larger spells. Buried Ruin can help if one or two pieces are removed, but seldom recovers against Vandalblast type effects.

You can draw your whole library with Sensei's Divining Top, Mystic Forge and either Ugin, the Ineffable or infinite mana (see below). When powered up, the deck is consistent at achieving infinite mana, drawing through itself and then winning with some sort of infinite combo.

Tuning

These are suggestions for tuning the deck to different playgroups.

Tune down:

Kozilek, the Great Distortion -> Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger | Kozilek, Butcher of Truth | Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre (all of these commanders are quite strong. Perhaps play Morophon, the Boundless if you really want to tune down the power of your general.)
Forsaken Monument -> Walker of the Wastes
Void Winnower -> Hand of Emrakul
Oblivion Stone -> Vanquisher's Banner
Moonsilver Key -> Spawnsire of Ulamog
Mana Crypt -> Kozilek's Channeler
Mana Vault -> Hedron Matrix
Eye of Ugin -> Cathedral of War
Urza's Saga -> Labyrinth of Skophos
Ancient Tomb -> Guildless Commons
Cavern of Souls -> Ruins of Oran-Rief
Scorched Ruins -> Wastes

Tune up:

See Powered Kozilek [99%] for the maximum power version of this deck.

Eldrazi Mimic -> Emrakul, the Promised End
Matter Reshaper -> Grim Monolith
Erratic Portal -> Cloudstone Curio
Bane of Bala Ged -> Ward of Bones
Reality Smasher -> Grafted Exoskeleton | Shadowspear | Commander's Plate
Artisan of Kozilek -> Dungeon Map
Warden of Geometries -> Basalt Monolith
Eldrazi Devastator -> Voltaic Key
Skittering Invasion -> Rings of Brighthearth
Deceiver of Form -> Relic of Progenitus
Spawnsire of Ulamog -> Sensei's Divining Top
Eldrazi Conscription -> Staff of Domination
Crashing Drawbridge -> Jeweled Lotus
Titan's Presence -> Maze of Ith
Desert | Tomb of the Spirit Dragon -> Moonsilver Key
Wastes -> Strionic Resonator
Wastes -> High Market

You can change up the big dumb Eldrazi such as Reality Smasher or Endless One for relevant hate pieces (Torpor Orb | Grafdigger's Cage | Weathered Runestone | etc). Eldrazi with proactive cast triggers are more important than the beaters in high powered pods.

Game-ending combos:

Infinite life:

Eye of Ugin + Forsaken Monument + Cloudstone Curio + Endless One + Eldrazi Mimic

Infinite mana:

Infinite mana payoffs:

Rings of Brighthearth + Sensei's Divining Top (draw through deck)
Ugin, the Ineffable + Mystic Forge + Sensei's Divining Top (draw through deck)
War Room + Deserted Temple + Rings of Brighthearth (draw through deck)
Cloudstone Curio + any two creatures (infinite cast triggers / etbs)
Cloudstone Curio + Forsaken Monument + any two creatures (infinite life)
Cloudstone Curio + Vanquisher's Banner + any two creatures (draw through deck)
Altar of Dementia + your commander (mill your opponents)
Spawnsire of Ulamog's second ability + Essence Depleter (rule zero before playing with a sideboard)
Staff of Domination :)
...Crawling Barrens?

Rings of Brighthearth is a fair and balanced Magic card:

Firstly, Basalt Monolith and Rings of Brighthearth make infinite mana.

Voltaic Key, Rings of Brighthearth and infinite mana allow for unlimited artifact untaps. The two cards make infinite mana with a little help:

Combine the key, ring, infinite mana and these cards:

Sensei's Divining Top - draw your deck.
Mystic Forge - exile any number of cards from the top of your library.
Oblivion Stone - put fate counters on all of your permanents before popping the stone.
Liquimetal Torque - make all non-land permanents artifacts, also meaning access to a new suite of activated abilities. Endbringer is the only non-artifact permanent of note in this list.
Dungeon Map - explore as many dungeons as you like. This can kill your opponents.
Relic of Progenitus - exile all opposing yards and keep the relic for later :P
Strionic Resonator - infinite copies of triggered abilities.
Lithoform Engine - infinite copies of spells and abilities.

Cool things you can do with Lithoform Engine and infinite untaps:

any number of a single planeswalker ability, such as infinite Ugin, the Spirit Dragon bolts (or minus ten lol).
copy Unstable Obelisk's secondary ability for unlimited permanent destruction.
copy Expedition Map's ability to move all lands from library to hand.
copy Buried Ruin's trigger to return all artifacts in your graveyard to your hand.
copy Treasure Chest's ability a few times, then copy it again if things are going well for you. You can put as many rolls as you want on the stack, but you'll draw yourself out eventually. Too bad it's not a "may" ability :/
copy Urza's Saga's second and third ability as many times as you want, make an arbitrarily large army of constructs and / or pull all zero or one mana cost artifacts from your library to the battlefield.
destroy all of your opponents' lands with Strip Mine.
draw your deck with War Room, Mind Stone, Hedron Archive or Blasted Landscape.
kill your opponents with Sunscorched Desert. This is lethal even if your opponents have an arbitrarily large amount of life, just say you're dealing damage equal to an infinity twice the size of theirs.

Deserted Temple is the land version of Voltaic Key. It combos with Rings of Brighthearth and Scorched Ruins to create infinite mana and then infinite untaps of lands. Notable combos:

Tomb of the Spirit Dragon - infinite life.
War Room - draw your deck.
Blast Zone - instantly level and destroy permanents.
Eye of Ugin - tutor all colorless creatures from your library to your hand.
Rogue's Passage - any and all creatures can be made unblockable.
Arena - kill all of your opponent's creatures with an indestructible threat like Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre.
Desert - infinite damage to creatures, but only after they've dealt damage in combat lol

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Commander masters updates — Aug. 6, 2023

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-1 Spawnsire of Ulamog +1 Zhulodok, Void Gorger
-1 Deceiver of Form +1 Skittering Cicada
-1 Vanquisher's Banner +1 Rise of the Eldrazi
-1 Oblivion Stone +1 Calamity of the Titans
-1 Reality Smasher +1 Flayer of Loyalties
-1 Endless One +1 Darksteel Monolith

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Top Ranked	Achieved #28 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #18 position in Commander / EDH 3 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Eldrazi 4 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	WUBRG
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	5.02
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Treasure
Folders	Commander/EDH, eldrazi1, Ideas, COMMANDER DECKS FOR TABLETOP SIM, Tapped Out - User Decks, Magic the Gathering Any% no basics, Wanted Decks, Good Lists
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