A nice card though I often don't play it because by the time I get him out, I've either already won or lost. What I find the Eldrazi are best for is keep one in each deck you make and it's just good "anti-milling" - I have no intention of ever playing the card but it helps protect me from losing to someone's mill deck (and I have a couple good mill decks myself!)
Posted By:
Bouv10
(6/3/2011 10:42:31 AM)
I'm going to play Ulamog in my version of Jacob Van Lunen's "Fresh Meat" deck. Using Awakening Zone, Kolziek's Predator, and Nest Invaders for Eldrazi Spawn plus cheap mana producers like Llanowar Elves, Joraga Treespeaker, and Birds of Paradise gives you the ability to hard cast this guy pretty early. Sacrifice my 5 Eldrazi Spawn tokens to cast a Ulamog? I think I'll take that trade. If you don't win with Beastmaster Ascension or you don't draw a Fresh Meat to sacrifice your Eldrazi Spawns to, this is a great late game winning condition. There you go, a viable tournament application for Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre especially now that Jace, the Mind Sculptor is banned from standard.
Posted By:
Solid_Oak
(6/25/2011 5:44:48 AM)
Dread Cthulhu hasn't had a peaceful night Lying Sleeping since someone told him about The God Daymn Batman.
No, I don't have an autocard for Batman. Elder Star Gods from another universe are not too powerful or dangerously unfair for Magic, but Batman most definitely is. There will never, ever, ever be a Batman-like card.
Use your imagination for a sec, and pretend what it might be like to put Whispersilk Cloak on Jace, the Mind Sculptor. That's a little bit like what the Michael Keaton Batman is like.
The Kevin Conroy version also has Bat Glare: "{B}: Creatures target player controls can't block this turn, Batman has triple strike until end of turn and fights any number of their creatures, then defending player sacrifices all the cards in their hand." That, on top of Jace, the Mind Sculptor wearing Whispersilk Cloak, is what The G-D Batman would look like as a Magic card.
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(11/5/2011 8:16:40 PM)
Favorite of the 3 big eldrazi. Kozilek is too easy to kill and emrakul just seems like overkill.
Posted By:
steez4days
(11/20/2011 11:32:35 PM)
Can be used to destroy, Emrakul, The Aeons Torn and Kozilek, Butcher Of Truth, take that, you two, for having more P/T!! :P
Anyway, I haven't seen a mention that this is colorless permanent destruction - it gets around all protection except Progenitus (as there are no Protection from Eldrazi cards...) and thus also around Emrakul's protection clause.
Does not get around Indestructible, Shroud or Hexproof, though.
Posted By:
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
(1/28/2012 4:23:24 AM)
My favorite of the Eldrazi. I don't often pack a lot of removal spells in my decks, but when I do, they come with something hilarious stapled on.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(3/18/2012 4:26:04 PM)
I honestly think that Annihilator is kind of annoying. Eldrazi was awesome without it.
Posted By:
atemu1234
(3/25/2012 12:15:04 PM)
Spartans!!! PREPARE FOR GLORY!!!!!
Posted By:
Xineombine
(12/31/2012 9:30:44 AM)
Overkill is the point stupid.
Posted By:
TheJank-O-Mancerguy
(3/14/2013 11:55:05 AM)
Harder to kill then Emrakul, the Aeons Torn in a world full of sweepers. But generally, when you cast Emrakul the game just ends immediately because you get to time walk your opponent. Best Eldrazi in EDH though by a million miles. The only ones that come close are Kozilek, Butcher of Truth and It that Betrays.
5/5
Posted By:
Ligerman30
(4/1/2013 11:33:01 AM)