Absence of Color

Commander / EDH Artifact Colorless Combo Eldrazi Midrange

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Artifact (36)

• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Crawlspace
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Forsaken Monument
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Grim MonolithGC
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana VaultGC
• 1x Mana Web
• 1x Manifold Key
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Mind's Eye
• 1x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Planar Bridge
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unwinding Clock
• 1x Vedalken Orrery
• 1x Voltaic Key

Land (38)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Dust Bowl
• 1x Eldrazi Temple
• 1x Eye of Ugin
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Glacial ChasmGC
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sanctum of Ugin
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Urza's Mine
• 1x Urza's Power Plant
• 1x Urza's Tower
• 1x Wasteland
• 10x Wastes
• 1x Winding Canyons

Instant (2)

• 1x Titan's Presence
• 1x Warping Wail

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Eldrazi Conscription

Sorcery (1)

• 1x All is Dust

Commander (1)

Creature (17)

• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Geode Golem
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Karn, Silver Golem *oversized*
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Metalworker
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Void Winnower
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Planeswalker (4)

• 1x Karn Liberated
• 1x Karn, the Great Creator
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

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I wanted a bit of a restriction and challenge when making my next EDH Deck. This deck has a lot of power behind it. Kozilek, the Great Distortion is vastly underrated in most playgroups/metas. With the right build and CMC curve, it can shut down opponents. It is everything you want in a General to close out games: 1) Evasion, 2) Protection, 3) Card Draw, and 4) Closes out games quickly.

The goal is to ramp and play out your hand to get the most value from casting your Kozilek. However, sometimes it is ideal to keep certain spells/cards in hand when you cast him to ensure you have something to counter a Swords to Plowshares, just for example. Read your opponents, plan ahead, and figure out what cards can ruin your plans.

Lock Down/Out:

Karn, the Great Creator+Mycosynth Lattice = your opponents cannot cast spells. They have to remove Karn first by attacking. If you get the right boardstate, it ends games because they may not be able to attack profitably into Karn. Karn, Silver Golem's activated ability works very well with Lattice because you just pay 1 mana to destroy a land.

Darksteel Forge+Mycosynth Lattice+Nevinyrral's Disk = blow up all opposing permanents.

Total Board Lock:

Karn, the Great Creator+Mycosynth Lattice+Glacial Chasm+Crucible of Worlds = Opponents cannot cast spells, activate abilities or attack with creatures. This is an absolute hard lock and yes I know you have to sacrifice a land every time it enters the field, but we can manage that for a while until we get our deck into full steam ahead with Planar Bridge+Rings of Brighthearth and then go off with even more tutoring with Kuldotha Forgemaster. Now if somehow they have something out that shuts down recurring Glacial Chasm, then we eat the life loss until we can either gain enough life to outlast the life loss, or until we find an answer to whatever is shutting down our graveyard.

"Infinite" Mana Combos:

Rings of Brighthearth+Basalt Monolith

Forsaken Monument+Basalt Monolith

Ways to use "Infinite" Mana:

Walking Ballista

Staff of Domination

Among others...

I used to play Perilous Vault but I found that I was not casting it or using it all that often. If I was, it was very early in the game, when I had nothing on board and I would find myself playing around my own Vault. So Disk gets the place due to the synergy it has and highly usability with my protection.

I know that Nevinyrral's Disk does not get rid of Avacyn or Opponents' indestructible Eldrazi or Darksteel Forge or etc...But I have other cards that can manage that. Ugin, the Spirit Dragon or All Is Dust can work well against colored permanents granting indestructibility. Karn Liberated and Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger can take care of any permanent that grants indestructible and Titan's Presence and Duplicant can take care of most creatures that have indestructible. Warping Wail has its time in the sun as well.

Tutors:

Inventors' Fair = Tutor out any artifact

Expedition Map = Tutor out any land

Eye of Ugin = Tutor out any creature

Sanctum of Ugin = Tutor out any creature

Planar Bridge = Tutor out any permanent

Karn, the Great Creator = tutors out of exile

Kuldotha Forgemaster = tutor out a specific artifact

Removal:

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Karn Liberated

Ugin, the Ineffable

Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

All Is Dust

Blast Zone

Duplicant

Oblivion Stone

Nevinyrral's Disk

Scour from Existence

Titan's Presence

Walking Ballista

Warping Wail (kind of)

Any creature with "Annihilator", technically

Strip Mine

Wasteland

Dust Bowl

Ramp:

Any mana producing artifact

Solemn Simulacrum

Burnished Hart

Voltaic Key/Manifold Key (with mana producing artifacts that tap for more than 1)

Myriad Landscape

Warping Wail

Ugin, the Ineffable = Mana reduction

Forsaken Monument

Recursion:

Crucible of Worlds

Buried Ruin

Artisan of Kozilek

Any Eldrazi Titans that shuffle the Graveyard into the Library

Card Draw:

Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Mind's Eye

Arch of Orazca

Ugin, the Ineffable

Mystic Forge

Protection:

Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Crawlspace

Glacial Chasm

Cavern of Souls

Darksteel Forge

Homeward Path

Lightning Greaves

Swiftfoot Boots

Void Winnower

Warping Wail

Defense Grid

Grafdigger's Cage

Utility:

Unwinding Clock

Rings of Brighthearth

Manifold Key

Miren, the Moaning Well

Mirrorpool

Rogue's Passage

Scavenger Grounds

Sensei's Divining Top

Vedalken Orrery

Voltaic Key

Manifold Key

Winding Canyons

Top Ranked	Achieved #35 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	10 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	23 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.47
Tokens	City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink, Zombie 2/2 B
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