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Emrakul, the Exigent Doom - Exigent Recursion Engine
Emrakul, the Exigent Doom · Colorless · 100 cards · 40 lands
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Strategy
This is a colorless Eldrazi ramp deck built around Emrakul, the Exigent Doom. The strategy is to accelerate into huge colorless threats, leverage cost reducers to deploy multiple bombs per turn, and overwhelm the table with Eldrazi that come with punishing cast and attack triggers. Emrakul herself untaps all your lands when cast, giving you a mana refund that chains directly into more spells, and her exile ability lets you ramp a land toward casting her later.
Early: Prioritize mana development. Play Hedron Crawler, Palladium Myr, Kozilek's Channeler, and Warden of Geometries to generate {C}, and use fetch effects like Solemn Simulacrum, Burnished Hart, Scampering Surveyor, and the Lesson spells Environmental Sciences and Aang's Journey to build your land base. Walking Atlas and Walker of the Wastes support land drops, while Sensei's Divining Top, Mazemind Tome, and Tome of Legends keep cards flowing. Forsaken Monument doubles your {C} production and buffs your colorless creatures, making it a high-priority early play.
Mid: Deploy cost reducers to start chaining bombs. Ugin, the Ineffable makes colorless spells cost {2} less, It That Heralds the End and Conduit of Ruin discount your big creatures, and Foundry Inspector cuts artifact costs. Conduit of Ruin can also tutor a colorless creature with mana value 7 or greater to the top of your library. Thought-Knot Seer strips a card from an opponent, Matter Reshaper and Reality Smasher pressure with value and resilience, and Endbringer provides repeatable damage, card draw, and tap-down utility. Mind's Eye, Temple Bell, and Endless Atlas refill your hand to keep the engine running.
Late: Close games with your top-end Eldrazi. Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger exiles two permanents on cast and mills twenty when it attacks. Artisan of Kozilek reanimates a creature on cast and brings Annihilator 2. Zhulodok, Void Gorger gives your big colorless spells from hand double Cascade, and Echoes of Eternity copies your colorless spells while doubling their triggered abilities. All Is Dust sweeps colored permanents while leaving your colorless board intact. Geode Golem can cheat Emrakul into play on combat damage, and Sanctum of Eternity can bounce your commander to recast and retrigger her land-untap ability.
Win conditions: Win through combat with oversized, evasive Eldrazi. Emrakul, the Exigent Doom attacks with flying and trample; Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger and Artisan of Kozilek grind opponents down with Annihilator and exile effects; Sire of Seven Deaths offers a loaded keyword package. Walking Ballista provides a scalable damage finisher, and Skullclamp converts your creatures into cards to keep the pressure constant. Void Winnower locks opponents out of even-cost spells and blockers to push damage through.
- Forsaken Monument - Core mana doubler and anthem that boosts colorless creatures and gains life on colorless casts
- Ugin, the Ineffable - Primary cost reducer, cutting {2} from every colorless spell
- Conduit of Ruin - Tutors a big colorless creature to the top of the library and discounts your first creature each turn
- Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger - Resilient late-game threat that exiles permanents on cast and mills on attack
- All Is Dust - One-sided board wipe that spares your colorless permanents
- Zhulodok, Void Gorger - Gives large colorless spells from hand double Cascade for explosive value
- Echoes of Eternity - Copies colorless spells and doubles their triggered abilities
- Geode Golem - Cheats the commander into play free on combat damage
- Skullclamp - Card-advantage engine that turns creatures into cards
~$314.33
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
When you cast this spell, untap all lands you control.
Flying, trample
Ward—Sacrifice three permanents.
{3}, Exile this card from your hand: Target land gains "{T}: Add {C}{C}" until this card is cast from exile. You may cast this card for as long as it remains exiled.
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Creatures (35)
Warden of Geometries
Creature — Eldrazi Drone
$0.21
Vigilance
{T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)
Hedron Crawler
Artifact Creature — Construct
$0.24
{T}: Add {C}. ({C} represents colorless mana.)
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.26
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Burnished Hart
Artifact Creature — Elk
$0.13
{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Scampering Surveyor
Artifact Creature — Gnome
$0.27
When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card or Cave card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Ornithopter of Paradise
Artifact Creature — Thopter
$0.34
Flying
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Oblivion Sower
Creature — Eldrazi
$0.63
When you cast this spell, target opponent exiles the top four cards of their library, then you may put any number of land cards that player owns from exile onto the battlefield under your control.
Walking Atlas
Artifact Creature — Construct
$1.64
{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Walking Ballista
Artifact Creature — Construct
$5.5
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.
Endbringer
Creature — Eldrazi
$0.32
Untap this creature during each other player's untap step.
{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target.
{C}, {T}: Target creature can't attack or block this turn.
{C}{C}, {T}: Draw a card.
Artisan of Kozilek
Creature — Eldrazi
$0.45
When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
$21.45
When you cast this spell, exile two target permanents.
Indestructible
Whenever Ulamog attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library.
Matter Reshaper
Creature — Eldrazi
$0.38
({C} represents colorless mana.)
When this creature dies, reveal the top card of your library. You may put that card onto the battlefield if it's a permanent card with mana value 3 or less. Otherwise, put that card into your hand.
Circuit Mender
Artifact Creature — Insect
$0.16
When this creature enters, you gain 2 life.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card.
Emrakul, the Promised End
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
$25.62
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard.
When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn.
Flying, trample, protection from instants
Deathless Behemoth
Creature — Eldrazi
$0.14
Vigilance
Sacrifice two Eldrazi Scions: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.
Ancestral Statue
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.16
When this creature enters, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.
Kozilek's Pathfinder
Creature — Eldrazi
$0.11
{C}: Target creature can't block this creature this turn. ({C} represents colorless mana.)
It That Heralds the End
Creature — Eldrazi Drone
$0.29
Colorless spells you cast with mana value 7 or greater cost {1} less to cast.
Other colorless creatures you control get +1/+1.
Conduit of Ruin
Creature — Eldrazi
$4.32
When you cast this spell, you may search your library for a colorless creature card with mana value 7 or greater, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
The first creature spell you cast each turn costs {2} less to cast.
Zhulodok, Void Gorger
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
$47.05
Colorless spells you cast from your hand with mana value 7 or greater have "Cascade, cascade." (When you cast one, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)
Void Winnower
Creature — Eldrazi
$21.27
Your opponents can't cast spells with even mana values. (Zero is even.)
Your opponents can't block with creatures with even mana values.
Skittering Cicada
Creature — Insect
$12.51
Flash
You may cast colorless spells as though they had flash.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, until end of turn, this creature gains trample and gets +X/+X, where X is that spell's mana value.
Sire of Seven Deaths
Creature — Eldrazi
$18.49
Reach, first strike
Vigilance, menace
Trample, lifelink
Ward—Pay 7 life.
Abstruse Archaic
Creature — Avatar
$2.71
Vigilance
{1}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control from a colorless source. You may choose new targets for the copy. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
Legendary Artifact Creature — Thopter
$6.96
Flash
Flying
You may cast colorless spells and artifact spells as though they had flash.
Whenever you cast a spell, if the amount of mana spent to cast that spell is greater than Liberator's power, put a +1/+1 counter on Liberator.
Eldrazi Mimic
Creature — Eldrazi
$1.26
Whenever another colorless creature you control enters, you may have this creature's base power and toughness become equal to that creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
Geode Golem
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.26
Trample
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast your commander from the command zone without paying its mana cost. (You still pay any additional costs.)
Reality Smasher
Creature — Eldrazi
$0.62
({C} represents colorless mana.)
Trample, haste
Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, counter that spell unless its controller discards a card.
Endless One
Creature — Eldrazi
$0.61
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Thought-Knot Seer
Creature — Eldrazi
$5.36
({C} represents colorless mana.)
When this creature enters, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card.
When this creature leaves the battlefield, target opponent draws a card.
Foundry Inspector
Artifact Creature — Construct
$0.31
Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Walker of the Wastes
Creature — Eldrazi
$0.25
({C} represents colorless mana.)
Trample
This creature gets +1/+1 for each land you control named Wastes.
Instants (4)
Titan's Presence
Instant
$0.31
As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a colorless creature card from your hand.
Exile target creature if its power is less than or equal to the revealed card's power.
Spatial Contortion
Instant
$0.23
({C} represents colorless mana.)
Target creature gets +3/-3 until end of turn.
Not of This World
Kindred Instant — Eldrazi
$5.47
Counter target spell or ability that targets a permanent you control.
This spell costs {7} less to cast if it targets a spell or ability that targets a creature you control with power 7 or greater.
Sorceries (4)
All Is Dust
Kindred Sorcery — Eldrazi
$2.27
Each player sacrifices all permanents they control that are one or more colors.
Environmental Sciences
Sorcery — Lesson
$0.2
Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. You gain 2 life.
Aang's Journey
Sorcery — Lesson
$0.23
Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.)
Search your library for a basic land card. If this spell was kicked, instead search your library for a basic land card and a Shrine card. Reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.
You gain 2 life.
Artifacts (14)
Forsaken Monument
Legendary Artifact
$3.4
Colorless creatures you control get +2/+2.
Whenever you tap a permanent for {C}, add an additional {C}.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, you gain 2 life.
Idol of False Gods
Kindred Artifact — Eldrazi
$0.32
{1}{C}, {T}: Create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."
Whenever another Eldrazi you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on this artifact.
As long as this artifact has eight or more +1/+1 counters on it, it's a 0/0 creature in addition to its other types and it has annihilator 2.
Erratic Portal
Artifact
$0.84
{1}, {T}: Return target creature to its owner's hand unless its controller pays {1}.
Oblivion Stone
Artifact
$0.33
{4}, {T}: Put a fate counter on target permanent.
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.
Mind's Eye
Artifact
$0.33
Whenever an opponent draws a card, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.
Endless Atlas
Artifact
$0.77
{2}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you control three or more lands with the same name.
Mazemind Tome
Artifact — Book
$0.17
{T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
{2}, {T}, Put a page counter on this artifact: Draw a card.
When there are four or more page counters on this artifact, exile it. If you do, you gain 4 life.
Idol of Oblivion
Artifact
$1.62
{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn.
{8}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.
Skullclamp
Artifact — Equipment
$4.85
Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}
Tome of Legends
Artifact — Book
$0.31
This artifact enters with a page counter on it.
Whenever your commander enters or attacks, put a page counter on this artifact.
{1}, {T}, Remove a page counter from this artifact: Draw a card.
Soul-Guide Lantern
Artifact
$0.2
When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Campfire
Artifact
$1.05
{1}, {T}: You gain 2 life.
{2}, {T}, Exile this artifact: Put all commanders you own from the command zone and from your graveyard into your hand. Then shuffle your graveyard into your library.
Sensei's Divining Top
Artifact
$36.51
{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.
Enchantments (1)
Echoes of Eternity
Kindred Enchantment — Eldrazi
$2.08
If a triggered ability of a colorless spell you control or another colorless permanent you control triggers, that ability triggers an additional time.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
Planeswalkers (1)
Ugin, the Ineffable
Legendary Planeswalker — Ugin
$1.74
Colorless spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
+1: Exile the top card of your library face down and look at it. Create a 2/2 colorless Spirit creature token. When that token leaves the battlefield, put the exiled card into your hand.
−3: Destroy target permanent that's one or more colors.
Lands (40)
Sanctum of Eternity
Land
$6.99
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Return target commander you own from the battlefield to your hand. Activate only during your turn.
Basic lands: 38 Wastes
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