The 21 new cards from the Eldrazi Incursion Commander Deck
The Eldrazi are back and they've brought a whole host of new colorless nightmares to terrorize your Commander table. Wizards of the Coast, never ones to shy away from unleashing cosmic horrors, have graced us with 21 brand-new cards specifically for the Eldrazi Incursion precon. These colorless additions promise to shake up the format and give Eldrazi enthusiasts even more ways to annihilate their opponents' hopes and dreams.
Let's delve deeper into some of the most promising new additions, shall we?
Ulalek, Fused Atrocity
A grotesque fusion of flesh and metal, Ulalek embodies the Eldrazi's insatiable hunger for destruction. This twisted abomination serves as one of the two possible commanders for the Eldrazi Incursion deck, offering a unique spin on the classic Eldrazi strategy. Ulalek's ability to copy Eldrazi spells and triggered abilities creates a cascade of chaos, overwhelming opponents with a relentless tide of colorless power. With Ulalek at the helm, every Eldrazi spell becomes a potential for exponential growth, turning even the smallest threat into a devastating force.
Azlask, the Swelling Scourge
This hulking monstrosity embodies the Eldrazi's relentless growth and adaptability. As the second commander option for the Eldrazi Incursion deck, Azlask offers a different flavor of colorless carnage. By amassing experience counters whenever colorless creatures perish, Azlask fuels the growth of your remaining forces, empowering them with immense strength and resilience. Additionally, Azlask's unique ability to grant indestructible and annihilator to Scions and Spawns creates a nigh-unstoppable army of miniature Eldrazi, ready to swarm the battlefield and leave desolation in their wake.
Angelic Aberration
A truly bizarre and awe-inspiring creature, Angelic Aberration is a testament to the Eldrazi's ability to twist and corrupt even the most celestial of beings. This Eldrazi Angel boasts flying and vigilance, making it a formidable presence on the battlefield. Its unique ability allows you to sacrifice smaller creatures to create an army of 4/4 Eldrazi Angel tokens, each possessing the same evasive and defensive capabilities. While it may seem counterintuitive to sacrifice your own forces, this ability synergizes beautifully with token generators and other Eldrazi cards that produce numerous small creatures, ensuring a steady stream of angelic reinforcements.
Benthic Anomaly
A nightmarish leviathan from the depths of the ocean, Benthic Anomaly embodies the Eldrazi's ability to adapt and thrive in any environment. This monstrous creature boasts a unique ability that allows it to replicate the combined power and toughness of multiple creatures controlled by your opponents. As you cast Benthic Anomaly, you can choose a creature from each opponent and create a token copy that mirrors their collective might. This not only provides an immediate and potentially massive threat on the battlefield but also serves as a deterrent, discouraging opponents from overextending their forces lest they fuel your own monstrous creation.
Bismuth Mindrender
Bismuth Mindrender is a twisted Eldrazi horror that preys upon the minds of its victims, fueling its own power through their stolen thoughts. This insidious creature embodies the Eldrazi's penchant for mental manipulation and psychological warfare. When Bismuth Mindrender strikes an opponent, it forces them to exile cards from the top of their library until they reveal a nonland card, which you can then cast by paying life instead of mana. This unique ability not only disrupts your opponents' strategies but also provides you with unexpected opportunities to seize powerful spells from their own decks, turning their arsenal against them.
Chittering Dispatcher
A skittering mass of chitinous limbs and razor-sharp mandibles, the Chittering Dispatcher embodies the Eldrazi's penchant for swarming tactics. This unassuming creature may seem insignificant at first glance, but its true value lies in its ability to generate a steady stream of Eldrazi Spawn tokens upon leaving the battlefield. These expendable minions can be sacrificed to fuel various Eldrazi abilities or simply overwhelm opponents with their sheer numbers. While not a powerhouse on its own, Chittering Dispatcher serves as a valuable engine for fueling the Eldrazi swarm, ensuring a constant supply of fodder for your colorless hordes.
Eldrazi Confluence
Eldrazi Confluence is a versatile instant that embodies the Eldrazi's adaptability and penchant for disruption. This colorless spell offers three distinct modes, allowing you to tailor its effect to the situation at hand. Choose one or two modes to: destroy a creature with power 3 or less, counter a spell with mana value 3 or less, or exile the top three cards of an opponent's library. This flexibility makes Eldrazi Confluence a valuable tool for both offensive and defensive plays, disrupting your opponent's strategies while advancing your own. Whether you need to remove a pesky blocker, thwart a devastating spell, or gain valuable information about your opponent's hand, Eldrazi Confluence has you covered.
Eldritch Immunity
Eldritch Immunity is a testament to the Eldrazi's otherworldly nature and their resistance to conventional magic. This instant spell grants a target creature you control protection from each color until the end of the turn. This means that the creature becomes virtually untouchable, shrugging off damage and targeted spells of any color. Whether you need to protect a key Eldrazi titan from removal or ensure a crucial attacker gets through unhindered, Eldritch Immunity provides a vital layer of defense that can swing the tide of battle in your favor.
Hideous Taskmaster
This grotesque overseer epitomizes the Eldrazi's penchant for enslavement and domination. Hideous Taskmaster is a unique spell that grants you temporary control over your opponents' creatures, warping them into mindless pawns to serve your will. When cast, Hideous Taskmaster allows you to seize control of up to one creature from each opponent, untapping them and granting them trample, haste, and annihilator 1 until the end of the turn. This not only disrupts your opponents' plans but also provides you with a sudden and devastating offensive force capable of wiping out entire armies.
Inversion Behemoth
Inversion Behemoth embodies the Eldrazi's reality-warping powers, turning the battlefield on its head. This towering creature manipulates the fundamental forces of power and toughness, allowing you to swap these values on any number of target creatures at the beginning of combat. This can lead to surprising reversals, transforming your puny Eldrazi Spawn into mighty behemoths while reducing your opponents' most powerful creatures to feeble weaklings. With its ability to reshape the battlefield to your advantage, Inversion Behemoth adds a layer of strategic depth and surprise to the Eldrazi arsenal.
Mutated Cultist
Mutated Cultist is a testament to the Eldrazi's corrupting influence, twisting devoted followers into grotesque parodies of their former selves. This unsettling creature embodies the Eldrazi's ability to exploit and manipulate others for their own nefarious purposes. While seemingly unassuming at first glance, Mutated Cultist possesses a powerful ability that allows you to remove counters from permanents or even opponents, reducing the cost of your next spell for each counter removed. This can lead to explosive turns, allowing you to cast devastating Eldrazi spells at a fraction of their usual cost.
Selective Obliteration
Selective Obliteration is a devastating sorcery that showcases the Eldrazi's penchant for indiscriminate destruction. This colorless spell forces each player to choose a color, then exiles every permanent that isn't colorless or the chosen color. This can lead to massive board wipes, leaving your opponents' armies in ruins while your colorless Eldrazi remain untouched. Selective Obliteration is a powerful tool for disrupting the game state and clearing the path for your own forces to dominate the battlefield. While it requires careful consideration to maximize its impact, the potential for chaos and upheaval makes it a terrifying weapon in the Eldrazi arsenal.
Spawnbed Protector
Spawnbed Protector embodies the Eldrazi's unique life cycle, where even death serves as a catalyst for further proliferation. This massive creature not only provides a significant presence on the battlefield with its 6/8 stats, but it also serves as a guardian of the Eldrazi lineage. At the beginning of your end step, Spawnbed Protector allows you to return a fallen Eldrazi from your graveyard to your hand, ensuring that your forces can never truly be extinguished. Additionally, it generates two Eldrazi Scion tokens, which can be sacrificed for colorless mana, fueling the endless cycle of destruction and rebirth that defines the Eldrazi swarm.
Twins of Discord
Twins of Discord, as their name implies, bring a chaotic energy to the battlefield. This Eldrazi duo revels in disarray, sowing discord among opposing forces. Their unique ability forces opponents to choose between odd or even mana values, preventing creatures with the chosen value from blocking your attacks. Additionally, Twins of Discord grant your other colorless creatures bloodthirst 2, further fueling their offensive onslaught. This combination of disruption and aggression makes Twins of Discord a valuable asset for any Eldrazi commander seeking to overwhelm their foes.
Ulamog's Dreadsire
This formidable behemoth is a testament to Ulamog's boundless hunger and its ability to amass an unstoppable army. Ulamog's Dreadsire stands as a vigilant guardian, boasting vigilance and the new "Ward" mechanic, which requires opponents to sacrifice a permanent to target it with a spell or ability. But its true power lies in its ability to spawn 10/10 Eldrazi creature tokens, flooding the battlefield with overwhelming force. With its combination of defensive capabilities and offensive potential, Ulamog's Dreadsire serves as a cornerstone of the Eldrazi Incursion deck, solidifying its dominance on the battlefield.
But wait, there's more! Six of these Eldrazi ne'er-do-wells are not only new to the Commander scene but have also wormed their way into the Modern format.
A truly unsettling development, I must say. These six, also marked with the Modern Horizons 3 symbol, are:
Snapping Voidcraw
Snapping Voidcraw is a small but incredibly versatile Eldrazi that provides both defensive and offensive capabilities. Its "Ward 2" ability deters opponents from targeting it with spells or abilities, requiring them to sacrifice two permanents instead of one. Furthermore, its sacrifice ability allows you to exile a target nonland permanent with mana value less than or equal to the number of Eldrazi you control. This makes Snapping Voidcraw a valuable tool for removing troublesome permanents and disrupting your opponents' strategies, all while contributing to the overall strength of your Eldrazi swarm.
Glaring Fleshraker
This grotesque Eldrazi Drone serves as a harbinger of doom, signaling the imminent arrival of a colorless swarm. Glaring Fleshraker's abilities perfectly encapsulate the Eldrazi's relentless growth and aggressive nature. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, it generates an Eldrazi Spawn token, adding to your ever-expanding army. And with each additional colorless creature entering the battlefield under your control, Glaring Fleshraker inflicts a ping of damage upon each opponent, chipping away at their life totals and sowing discord among their ranks.
Wastescape Battlemage
A master of versatile magic, the Wastescape Battlemage embodies the Eldrazi's adaptability and resourcefulness. This cunning spellcaster offers a unique blend of offensive and defensive capabilities, allowing you to tailor their tactics to the situation at hand. With the option to kick this spell, you can either exile an opponent's artifact or enchantment, disrupting their strategies, or bounce a troublesome creature back to their hand, clearing the path for your Eldrazi forces. The Wastescape Battlemage's versatility makes them a valuable asset in any Eldrazi deck, providing flexible answers to a variety of threats.
Titans' Vanguard
A powerful leader of the Eldrazi swarm, Titans' Vanguard exemplifies the synergy and might of a united colorless force. This 5/5 creature boasts trample, easily trampling over defenders and dealing significant damage. But its true power lies in its ability to bolster the entire Eldrazi army. Whenever Titans' Vanguard enters the battlefield or attacks, it grants each colorless creature you control a +1/+1 counter, turning even the smallest Eldrazi Spawn into formidable threats. With Titans' Vanguard at the helm, your colorless horde becomes an unstoppable force of destruction, sweeping across the battlefield and leaving devastation in its wake.
Twisted Landscape
Twisted Landscape isn't your average piece of real estate. This land embodies the warped and chaotic nature of the Eldrazi, twisting the very fabric of mana production. While it may seem unassuming at first glance, this land holds a hidden power: the ability to search your library for a basic Swamp, Mountain, or Forest card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. While it requires a sacrifice, this ability can be a game-changer, providing crucial mana fixing for multicolor decks or simply accelerating your access to specific land types. And for those crafty deckbuilders out there, Twisted Landscape also boasts the "Cycling" ability, allowing you to discard it and draw a card if you don't need the mana boost.
Tranquil Landscape
A serene oasis amidst the Eldrazi's desolate wastelands, Tranquil Landscape offers a respite from the relentless onslaught of colorless chaos. This unassuming land may not boast the raw power of its twisted counterpart, but it provides a crucial advantage in the form of mana fixing. By sacrificing Tranquil Landscape, you can search your library for a basic Forest, Plains, or Island card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. This versatility allows you to adapt to the ever-changing demands of the game, ensuring you have the right colors of mana at your disposal. And for those moments when you need a fresh perspective, Tranquil Landscape also boasts the "Cycling" ability, allowing you to discard it and draw a new card, potentially uncovering the perfect answer to your current predicament.
