White eldrazi?
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Posted on Jan. 19, 2016, 2:04 p.m. by xavrr
I only just noticed... Eldrazi Displacer... is white... what?.. why?.. help?..
Well, people were upset that there wasn't a White Eldrazi in BFZ. Wizards predicted that and made sure there was at least one White Eldrazi in OGW.
That's the mechanical reason, for a flavorful one, why wouldn't the Eldrazi be "white"? Since they predate colored mana, the concept of a White Eldrazi is already a misnomer. However we can make some connections about them. What we really need to decide on is whether the Eldrazi can ascribe to any of the philosophical notions of White: Law, Order, and Structure. Now Law probably has no meaning to an Eldrazi, but Order and Structure might. While we may not be able to fathom the Eldrazi's motives, they certainly have a structure and order to themselves. Remember, each Spawn is just an extension of the Titan they spawned from. And within those Spawn there is a heirarchy, Drones are better than Spawn, and full Eldrazi are better than all but the Titan itself.
January 19, 2016 2:11 p.m.
Eldrazi Displacer = Combo enabler.
That's all you need to see out of it.
January 19, 2016 2:50 p.m.
Isn't the whole shtick of BFZ that the Eldrazi are adapting? That they are absorbing/warpping colored mana FTW? If thats the case white eldrazi make sense
January 19, 2016 4:10 p.m.
CastleSiege says... #7
The reason any of the Eldrazi have colors now are strictly for mechanics and deck building. Unfortunately I can't give you a source at this time, but basically MaRo thought that the Eldrazi from the original ZEN block were a cheap way around the colourpie since colorless cards can do anything. Since flavor and lore dictate that the Eldrazi are colorless, the Devoid mechanic was established. Adding colour to the new Eldrazi manacost ensured that players couldn't essentially cheat the system.
The inclusion of a white Eldrazi doesn't mean anything flavorwise, it just happens to have a white ability.
So no griz024, the Eldrazi are not adapting, they've just been fixed as far as game balance is concerned. Adapting is sliver territory.
January 19, 2016 5:46 p.m. Edited.
I could understand that the eldrazi would gain white mana per say from simply the fact they're absorbing mana from everything. And they do represent natural order. Like qui-gon gin said there's always a bigger fish. They are for the most part the bigger fish.
January 21, 2016 8:22 a.m.
thejadefalcon says... #9
I always viewed the Eldrazi as bringing order in their own way by ending the disorder of everything else living on the plane. It's a twisted sense of white, but isn't Orzhov too? Law and order can be in the eye of the beholder. I have no issues with a white Eldrazi.
julianjmoss says... #2
I mean it's ability is white. It doesn't mean that the cards aligned with white manas character traits
January 19, 2016 2:11 p.m.