Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger is one of the three Eldrazi titans inMagic: The Gathering. The titans are the leaders of the Eldrazi, with Ulamog doing hefty damage on the plane of Zendikar. Fittingly, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger is a great commander choice to lead an Eldrazi deck.
While Ulamog itself doesn’t do a whole lot for Eldrazi, the support cards for the creature type make it both easy to cast and allow you to play a ton of other powerful Eldrazi cards. There is a hefty limitation with it, however, as you can only play colorless cards in your deck.
Calamity of the Titans
Rise of the Eldrazi
War Room
Zhalfirin Void
The decklistcontains three planeswalkers, 33 creatures, three sorceries, four instants, 18 artifacts, three enchantments,and35 lands. Eldrazi decks are creature-heavy, especially since there aren’t a ton of great colorless instants, sorceries, or enchantments.
Key Cards
Ulamog, The Ceaseless Hunger
The commander of the deck, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger is a massive threat as soon as it hits the battlefield.No matter what, you get to exile two permanentswhen you cast it, letting you take care of any problem permanents, even if it gets countered.
The effect to exile permanents is mandatory. Even if your opponents have no creatures, you may still target their lands so you’re not exiling anything you control.
Once Ulamog is attacking, your opponents will start losing their libraries. Generally,just four attacks are enough to mill someone out of cards in their library. Since the cards are exiled, it doesn’t help graveyard strategies and makes the cards much harder for your opponent to get back.
Forsaken Monument
Forsaken Monument is the most important artifact in the deck. It massively supports colorless creatures and spells, along withdoubling up onall mana your mana rocks will make. The stat boost is minor for your large creatures, but your weaker ones will appreciate the extra pump.
The main attraction is adding an additional colorless mana whenever you tap a permanent to make a colorless mana. Thisleads to a combo where you can generate infinite mana with Basalt Monolith. This is vital as Eldrazi spells cost a ton of mana to cast. Here is how the combo works.
Prerequisites: Forsaken Monument and Basalt Monolith are on the battlefield.
Step 1: Activate Basalt Monolith to add three colorless mana by tapping it.
Step 2: Forsaken Monument will add an extra colorless mana to your mana pool.
Step 3: Use three mana to untap Basalt Monolith, leaving one mana floating.
Step 4: Repeat steps 1-3 to generate infinite mana.
Zhulodok, Void Gorger
A great commander in its own right, Zhulodok, Void Gorger is a phenomenal card youwant on the battlefield as quickly as possible. Most of your Eldrazi spells have a high mana value, and Zhulodokwill let you cascade twice when you cast them.
This essentiallygives you three different spells for the price of one card. Since Eldrazi creatures require such high mana investment, this lets you amass a battlefield much quicker to become a massive threat quickly rather than only casting one spell a turn.
Echoes Of Eternity
Echoes of Eternity is one of the few enchantments in the deck and is by far one of the best cards in the deck. Itdoubles all of your triggered abilities, as well as copies any colorless spell you cast. A spellincludes your colorless creature spells, so as long as they aren’t legendary, you’ll get two copies of them.
Some Eldrazi have annihilator, which will force your opponent to sacrifice permanents. Echoes of Eternity will double these triggers to make even more sacrifices required.
Nearly every card in the deck has some kind of triggered ability. Even if they don’t, they have a powerful effect to support the strategy that having two copies of them is amazing.You want to get Echoes of Eternity on the battlefield as quickly as possible,and keep it as safe as you can.
How To Play The Deck
An Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger deck isall about getting mana rocks down to start casting a ton of Eldrazi spells and flooding the battlefield with powerful creatures. Once you have a lot of mana available, you can start running out your hand.Many creatures in the deck can force your opponents to sacrifice permanents, helping to clear the way for attackers.
The deck does not need its commander to function.You can win the game easily without ever having cast Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger. The large suite of powerful creatures can carry a game on their own.
Youwant to get all your mana rocks down as quickly as you can. Eldrazi needa lotof mana to be cast, even the weaker ones still need a fair bit. The deckcan’t naturally ramp lands, so they need to rely on artifacts to accelerate their mana acceleration. There are a few mana dorks like Palladium Myr and Kozilek’s Channeler that help, but artifacts are your main mana source.
Theprimary win condition is winning through combat. With how many cards have annihilator and how powerful the stats on Eldrazi are, you’re able to deal a ton of damage while getting rid of any problems creatures your opponents have. All is Dustcan force all colored permanents to be exiled, which in many casesis a one-sided board wipe.
Thebiggest weakness of the deck is its speed. Once you have a ton of mana, you can start snowballing, but it takes a while to get to that point.Eldrazi have a reputation for being hard to deal with in the late game, so you’ll likely be targeted from the get-go as soon as you reveal Ulamog as your commander. So, expect to be fighting an uphill battle if your opponents decide to take you out before you can stabilize. As soon as you are stable though, you’ll often win the game from there.
