No thought but hunger, no strategy but destruction

Casual 12-post Casual Eldrazi Mono-Green Ramp

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Creature (18)

• 1x Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 4x Overgrown Battlement
• 3x Primeval Titan
• 4x Tinder Wall
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 4x Wall of Roots

Land (26)

• 4x Cloudpost
• 1x Eye of Ugin
• 12x Forest
• 4x Glimmerpost
• 1x Karakas
• 4x Vesuva

Sorcery (12)

• 4x All is Dust
• 4x Green Sun's Zenith
• 4x Living Wish

Instant (4)

• 4x Crop Rotation

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1x Primeval Titan
• 2x Reclamation Sage
• 2x Riftsweeper

Land (5)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 2x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 2x Cavern of Souls

Instant (4)

• 4x Krosan Grip

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Maybeboard

Instant (4)

• 1x Spatial Contortion
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Summoning Trap
• 1x Warping Wail

Artifact (1)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds

Creature (2)

• 1x Ancient Stirrings
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Land (1)

• 1x Dryad Arbor

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Splendid Reclamation

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Very very basic outline of this deck: Most of your games will probably start with early game ramp to power out one of 11 possible ways to search for Primeval Titan ideally by turn 3-4, and then a turn or two later turbo charge your way to the almighty flying spaghetti monster that is Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. The high potential power gives this deck the ability to to crank out a turn 3 Primeval Titan and end the game very quickly by turn 5, assuming everything goes perfectly. Even if it doesn't, the redundancy in function provides an insane amount of consistency, and should help you find a way to propel yourself to the flying spaghetti monster.

Strengths:

• Can be played in both 1v1 and multiplayer, with a few tweaks for multiplayer (swap in a Karakas )
• Extremely resilient vs many aggro and control decks alike
• Almost unbeatable lategame
• Access to matchup-specific sideboard options in mainboard to adapt to many situations
• Redundancy in function for many cards in the deck to increase options and consistency at any stage in the game
• Very difficult to break this deck apart with name-specific exile cards like Surgical Extraction and Memoricide
• Has a plan vs land destruction, can operate off of minimum two lands and can ramp through Blood Moon effects

Weaknesses

• Very little interaction vs combo, basically comes down to either being faster or hoping your opponent's combo relies on some artifact or enchantment and blowing it up
• Decks that rely on a critical mass of colorless permanents (probably artifacts) are harder to survive against, especially if they are aggressive like affinity-esque decks
• Depending on the playgroup, may draw a lot of hate in multiplayer games (well-equipped to defend though!)
• Not designed for playing in a sanctioned competitive format

Individual Card Choices

The Ramp Show

These are the cards that propel you way ahead in the amount of mana you have, putting you several turns ahead of opponents that plan on dropping lands traditionally. Unlike many other ramp decks, these cards increase your resources exponentially instead of linearly, which can also put you ahead of standard ramp decks.

Cloudpost Glimmerpost Vesuva: These lands give you an absurd amount of mana. The first cloudpost is a mediocre tapland, but even in the presence of simply one other locus, the exponential growth in mana makes casting giant Eldrazi almost a joke. Vesuva is effectively cloudpost 5-8, but can double as a bad forest or extra life from glimmerpost if need be. Glimmerpost is sometimes important as a way to stabilize and most importantly counts as a locus for Cloudpost.

Overgrown Battlement Wall of Roots Tinder Wall : These cards serve their own function as ramp, while staving off early game aggression to give you time to get to your haymakers. Overgrown battlement is cloudpost for creatures with defender, which there are 12 of, giving a potential for exponentially increasing mana. Tinder Wall gives short bursts of what is effectively colorless mana, which soon will lead to a more stable source of absurd amounts of mana later if used correctly. Wall of Roots finally allows for making use of its mana the turn it enters, which does matter for more explosive plays like casting Tinder Walls or crop rotation on the same turn, chaining Wall of Roots, etc. The important thing about these specific combinations of walls is that they create the most scenarios where you are going to have 6 or 7 mana by turn 3 or 4. This is especially important because that is how much Primeval Titan and All Is Dust cost respectively. Consider these examples:

Turn 1 Tinder wall turn 2 overgrown battlement turn 3 7 mana

Turn 2 Wall of Roots into tinder Wall turn 3 6 mana

Turn 1 cloudpost turn 2 overgrown battlement turn 3 glimmerpost wall of roots tinder wall 7 mana

These are scenarios that are not typically possible with other creature-based ramp that also have the defensive capability they do. Of course these are all examples with a complete lack of disruption, but the very fact that these walls in themselves have to be disrupted to avoid a loss is really backbreaking. All these factors in mind, and cards that would normally be good otherwise like Llanowar Elves Sylvan Caryatid and Axebane Guardian do not make the cut.

The Penultimate Reversal Show

These are the payoff cards that cost 6 or 7 mana and reverse the board state in your favor. It is what you are initially ramping to. It is very important that they cost this amount of mana, nothing else is better at this mana cost and anything more or less is very inefficient on the mana based on how cloudpost and defender ramp works.

Primeval Titan: Arguably the most important card in the entire deck, this guy's ability to fetch nonbasic lands creates a board state that is increasingly in your favor. In fact, the 6/6 isn't even the most important part. This card would still be really good if it was a sorcery with similar text. Fetching Cloudpost for obscene amounts of mana, glimmerpost to stabilize, or eye of ugin to close out the game, there is almost never a point where primeval titan is a bad card. So much so that there are effectively 11 copies of this card in the deck.

All Is Dust: The ultimate board clear. Not just creatures, gets around regeneration and indestructibility, pretty much everything is dead. Unfortunately hits your own board, but the 12-post manabase reverses that setback rather quickly. It is important to note that this card is better than Ugin, the Spirit Dragon. 7 is a "friendly" number in that it can be achieved through 2 cloudposts and a glimmerpost or the aforementioned defender cards by turn 3, whereas Ugin comes down turn 4 at the earliest. Any other benefit of playing All is Dust over Ugin are marginal, but examples include unnecessary exposure to Pithing Needle and Phyrexian Revoker, CMC mattering, no cost reduction from Eye of Ugin, etc.

Utility/Consistency Show

These are cards that increase redundancy by effectively increasing the number of copies of a card in the deck without actually increasing copies while having multiple uses so that they are once again almost never dead cards.

Green Sun's Zenith: This card doubles as either an early game ramp tutor (usually Overgrown Battlement, although some situations may call for Tinder Wall), or as Primeval Titans 4-7. This card searching for Primeval Titan costs 7 mana, which doesn't play into the double cloudpost glimmerpost situation, but plays often enough into the turn 3 of defender ramp where it is almost as good.

Living Wish: Usually, this card ends up being Primeval Titan 8-11. This is also the reason why there are only 3 Primeval Titans mainboard, despite claims earlier saying it is the most important card in the deck. "wish" cards have to fetch from the sideboard, and the 4 card rule applies both to mainboard AND sideboard, so the 4th copy sits in the "wishboard". However, this card also acts as a way to fetch silver bullet answers that would normally not be good enough to include in the mainboard, such as Reclamation Sage to kill troublesome artifacts/enchantments, or counter-protection such as Boseiju, Who Shelters All or Cavern of Souls to try and force a Primeval Titan, All is Dust, or Green Sun's Zenith through.

Crop Rotation: This card doubles as either really cheap ramp, or as a way to tutor up Eye of Ugin to close out the game. One problem this card can remedy is the fact that Vesuva completely sucks when there are no clouposts to copy. This usually points towards an excess of forests, which give you really easy targets to sacrifice.

Eye of Ugin: This is the card that tutors for your endgame. The fact that it is a land is extremely important, letting it get tutored by Primeval Titan and Crop Rotation. The high search cost isn't even terrible when you're probably going to cast the thing that wins you the game the turn after.

Karakas : Most of the time, Emrakul attacking once is enough to secure a game. However, there are going to be decks where that isn't true. Karakas is a way of enabling an infinite combo where you repeatedly bounce cast and attack with emrakul for infinite turns attacks damage and permanents sacrificed. Even without emrakul, this card is still good with the other two eldrazi titans for repeatable advantage until you get to the mana for the flying spaghetti monster. This also has super situational upside of bouncing opposing legendary permanents to buy yourself more time or to remove annoying effects.

The Haymakers Show

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger: This card is almost a strict upgrade from its predecessor, with annihilator just barely not making up for the increased number of permanents exiled on cast. This card also has a much friendlier mana cost at 10, which gives you the ability to cast it off of 2 cloudpost, glimmerpost, a forest, and eye of ugin.

Kozilek, Butcher of Truth: on the other hand, old kozilek beats out new kozilek any day. This card breaks stalemates very well, especially since attempts at removing it other than exile will lead to you searching and casting this guy again to draw into the mana needed to cast the flying spaghetti monster.

Emrakul, the Aeons Torn: The biggest, baddest of them all. The card this entire deck is built around. If the game doesn't end when you cast this thing, I don't know what to tell you.

Sideboard/Wishboard Show

Normally, the 15 cards would just be cards that are boarded in games 2 and 3 to improve certain matchups where possible or needed. However, in this deck the wishboard serves a secondary function as a place where cards can be fetched with Living Wish to adhere to the many situations that will occur while playing this game. You could forgo the whole "outside the game means your sideboard" rule enforced in tournaments if you wish, but I made this with the aforementioned rule in mind. For convenience's sake, I separated the cards intended to be boarded in, and the cards where at least one copy is intended to be kept in the sideboard.

Wishboard

Boseiju, Who Shelters All Cavern of Souls: This makes living wish much more of a threat than it normally would be vs control decks. If these cards were not present in the wishboard, a control player would probably just counter the primeval titan that comes from the wishboard. By having the ability to wish for these cards, the control player now has to respect living wish and counter them, paving the way for cards like Green Sun's Zenith or actual primeval titans. There are two copies so that a copy of each land can be boarded in to help punch through attempts at countering the Primeval Titans, which makes Crop Rotation also a serious threat that needs to be countered, lest the control player likely loses the game.

Reclamation Sage: Cheap and versatile tool for destroying problematic artifacts/enchantments you may face off against, such as Blood Moon or Pithing Needle. A copy can be boarded in to give Green Sun's Zenith additional utility as a potential tutor for artifact destruction.

Riftsweeper: This is probably one of the most obscure and least-commonly wished for targets. This deck is incredibly resilient to attempts at exiling Primeval Titans from deck, but that same fate happening to Emrakul or something can prove to be deadly. Riftsweeper provides an out to these situations. Again, a copy of this card can be boarded in so that you have 8 ways to search for this guy (green sun's zenith and living wish).

Sideboard

Krosan Grip: The best artifact and enchantment removal there is. If you don't face much stack-based interaction, then Nature's Claim is probably going to be better since winning with this deck isn't as contiguous on the life total as many other decks are. These cards tend to be boarded in most often in place of All is Dust, either because of lack of permanents to remove (from control decks probably) or from decks largely operating off of colorless cards (artifact-based, or that one guy playing Colorless Eldrazi Stompy in casual)

Bojuka Bog: Graveyard hate for those wanting to play unfair, this one is intended to be boarded in as a way to gain instant-speed graveyard hate with Crop Rotation, or to search up with Primeval Titan to secure a game. Keep in mind Vesuva can copy Bojuka Bog triggers if need be.

Kozilek, the Great Distortion: Honestly this card should probably be replaced, I moved Karakas to the mainboard and don't know what to replace it with. I could see this card being slightly better vs combo or something, may be a wishboard target if you already used Primeval Titan.

Maybeboard Show

Dryad Arbor: Gives this deck the ability to play Green Sun's Zenith as a llanowar elf, although this card is probably a lot worse without fetchlands. Maybe in a GW build.

Natural Order: Primeval Titans 12-15!! Main problem being this card is reliant on having a creature on board, and there are only so many redundant copies of Primeval Titan you can make before it starts becoming detrimental. Also, this card is only ever good at getting Primeval Titan, compared to the Green Sun's Zenith or Living Wish which both have other applications (of course if you want to put in Progenitus...)

Summoner's Pact: Primeval Titans 12-15 again! But once again only ever good at searching Primeval Titan and nothing else. Again just something to keep in mind.

Spatial Contortion : Colorless kill spell, if that's relevant. Right now I don't really see this worth a sideboard slot.

Warping Wail: Interaction vs combo decks!! The exile part isn't as relevant in casual play however since a good chunk of people are playing much bigger creatures.

Summoning Trap : Used to be in the deck back when Wurmcoil Engines were still included, although I could see a meta where this card would be good to have. Playing this card into emrakul used to be my favorite.

Wurmcoil Engine: Lets you play it off of 3 cloudposts turn 3, super disgusting alive or dead (kinda weak to exile though). The main problem is that wurmcoil engine usually falls short of a good primeval titan, and there are no Ancient Stirrings in the deck anymore, causing it to be a bit outclassed.

Ancient Stirrings : This deck would have to be remodeled considerably to support this card, and even back in the day when this card was included I found that it wasn't really consistent at what it did and the power level was somewhat low. I knew of the existence of Crop Rotation for a while, but it never occurred to me how insane it is in this deck until recently.

Crucible of Worlds, Splendid Reclamation: Possible tech against land destruction, honestly these could probably replace Riftsweeper, but the main thing that concerns me is how consistently they would show up if boarded in, the rest of the sideboard is crowded as it is. Also, this deck has been known to be able to survive off of just two lands due to the power of the defender ramp and a good deal of land destruction decks have trouble simultaneously stunting creature AND board development at the same time.

Tips and Tricks Show

1: Don't be afraid to board out eldrazi. Obviously don't board out Emrakul, but Ulamog and Kozilek both have matchups where they don't really shine or are just worse than one another, and they could take up slots in hand that could have been actual useful cards. If it puts your mind at ease, they will still be accessible through Living Wish.

2: Remember that you have an opponent. Don't make plays that lead into a super early Primeval Titan or All is Dust if they can be disrupted by a simple removal spell or counter. If you green sun's zenith for a Tinder Wall in the hopes of casting Primeval Titan the turn after only to have it get hit by Lightning Bolt, it's a real waste of a card.

3: Crop Rotation can be useful against land destruction. Although this deck doesn't really have cards dedicated to beating those cards at the moment, you can cast Crop Rotation in response to the land destruction ability, sacrificing the land being targeted so you can get a fresh copy of the same land. The goal is just to get to Primeval Titan, if you can get there land destruction shouldn't be as big of an issue. You can also theoretically operate off of only two lands because of the defender ramp arsenal.

4: Remember that the eldrazi titans have CAST triggers, not ENTERS THE BATTLEFIELD triggers. Super useful against counters. You'll still get to exile 2 permanents or draw 4 cards if your eldrazi get countered.

Top Ranked	Achieved #44 position overall 7 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Exclude colors	WUBR
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 4 Mythic Rares 12 - 2 Rares 8 - 8 Uncommons 16 - 1 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	3.44
Folders	Decks i like, Defensores (Emrakul), H*ckin Expensive Decks
Based on	I wish for... an Eldrazi 203995014 CAS