Colorless Eldrazi Aggro

Brian DeMars


Lands
4 x Ancient Tomb
4 x Cavern of Souls
3 x City of Traitors
4 x Eldrazi Temple
2 x Mishra's Factory
3 x Wasteland
1 x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 x Eye of Ugin
Creatures
4 x Eldrazi Mimic
1 x Endbringer
4 x Endless One
4 x Matter Reshaper
4 x Reality Smasher
4 x Thought-Knot Seer
2 x Simian Spirit Guide

Spells
4 x Chalice of the Void
2 x Dismember
2 x Thorn of Amethyst
2 x Warping Wail
2 x Umezawa's Jitte
Sideboard
2 x Pithing Needle
2 x Ratchet Bomb
2 x Thorn of Amethyst
1 x Endbringer
1 x Dismember
1 x All Is Dust
4 x Leyline of the Void
1 x Warping Wail
1 x Faerie Macabre
BUY THIS LIST
I took averages of each card and eliminated selections I felt were outliers. The deck plays very well, and it should, because it contains all the best cards being played in successful Eldrazi deck lists!

During my research, I noticed a trend among successful Eldrazi lists: 25 lands, 23 creatures, and 12 spells. Some deviation is fine but generally speaking, I like using 25, 23, 12 as a guideline.

There are also certain cards that everybody always maxes out on:


The Big 3.

The best of the Eldrazi are already pushed at their respective 2, 4, and 5 costs and get obnoxious with lands that make 2+ mana each.


What does a cup of nothing look like to you?

CotV is a payoff card in Eldrazi. Most of your lands make 2 mana, which means you skip playing 1-cost spells. Hence, you play a spell that punishes your opponents who are casting 1-cost spells.


What do all of the “best” cards in Legacy have in common?

Eldrazi is elegant in its simplicity and straightforwardness. The best lock cards, Eldrazi, and lands! “Whoop, there it is!”


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As if CotV wasn’t bad enough for blue decks! How about uncounterable 4- and 5-cost threats? Counterbalance is not very strong against 4 copies of Cavern of Souls!