Hangry Boi Needs a Snack (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Featured card: Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Hangry Boi Needs a Snack

Commander / EDH Annihilator Casual Eldrazi Multiplayer Ramp Theme/Gimmick

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Land (37)

Artifact (27)

Instant (5)

Planeswalker (4)

Commander (1)

Creature (21)

Sorcery (3)

Enchantment (2)

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Land (8)

Artifact (4)

Creature (2)

Instant (1)

1x Kozilek's Command

Big Eldrazi is the name of the game here! It's a big ol' titan bash led by Hangry Boi. After his release from being imprisoned for millennia, Ulamog wasn't very happy and he was very, very hungry. So now he (g)razes the land to sate his ceaseless hunger.

The Primer

Disclaimer: I build my decks with the main goal of having a good time while playing and not necessarily optimizing them to win. Regardless of what you are looking for I hope you enjoy the deck!

Part 2: Because I only play casually, no group I play with uses commander damage as a win condition. Please keep that in mind while looking at the deck.

Part 3: This deck is by far the most expensive of my decks and is the one I give the most attention to foiling/upgrading. Typically, you will not see this of my decks.

Why Ulamog the Ceaseless Hunger

After learning what color identity meant when I was first getting into commander, the idea of a colorless commander greatly appealed to me. But at that point, I didn't want to build and artifact-based deck and Eldrazi did not have as much support yet as BFZ had not come out. Once it did however, I got lucky enough to unpack Hangry Boi and thus the deck was born. At this point I could potentially swap out commanders for one of the other Eldrazi titans (likely either Kozilek for the card draw), but I like to have double spot removal on commander cast and the nostalgia of Ulamog and the deck name mean I won't be swapping out Hangry Boi. As a personal playstyle, I enjoy going all in on a theme; with that said, the goal here is to stay true to the Eldrazi tribal theme and the fact that this deck is colorless and my opponents likely are not (All is Dust, Commander's Plate, and Ugin, the Spirit Dragon). I will sacrifice deck efficiency to keep the theme because I just wanna have fun so you may not see things like Metalworker; while it would be great for this deck, it isn't an Eldrazi.

The Strategy

I like to keep things simple so here it is:

1) Ramp

2) Big angry bois

3) Value and profit (if you haven't already won)

There is more behind it to support and enable but when it comes to it, go big fast. This deck has a high average CMC so there is lots of ramp in this deck starting early and progressing (Eldrazi Temple, Mana Crypt, Sol Ring ==> Thran Dynamo, Forsaken Monument) with some cost reduction to help (Eye of Ugin, Conduit of Ruin, Ugin, the Ineffable). It's not uncommon to be able to start casting your + cost Eldrazi on turn 4 or 5. (I play casual multiplayer EDH so games can go far past this point.) By this point your hand can become quicky depleted, which is why we've got cards like Mystic Forge or The One Ring to help get through our library. Since my goal here is Eldrazi destruction, I'm not necessarily trying to hard lock my opponents. However, I do have some cards to help slow them down and allow me to get my expensive Eldrazi onto the battlefield. Those include Defense Grid and Chimil, the Inner Sun to combat counters and Winter Orb to force my opponents to prioritize their decisions. Other than some select cards for dealing with opponents, the Eldrazi's innate abilities are usually more than enough to deal with whatever my opponents have going on. Then it's off to the buffet to sate Ulamog's hunger!

Card Choices

Personal choices:

Tutors: I get that tutors are good, I very occasionally use them however because it feels cheaty to me and I prefer the randomness of drawing off the top, uncertainty is all part of the fun for me!
Infinite Combos: They are allowed in my playgroup and it varies how often they show up in my decks. Winning with one is kinda boring though so I prefer to limit them (another reason I don't prefer tutors - sometimes they just say "grab a combo piece and win the game")

Notable Lands

Blast Zone: Great way to combat token decks without needing to add charge counters.
Buried Ruin: Gets back my artifacts.
Echoing Deeps: Can become any land that has made its way to my graveyard.
Eldrazi Temple: Extra mana for my Eldrazi.
Emergence Zone: Surprise Eldrazi!
Eye of Ugin: Cheaper Eldrazi! (and tutors for the big bois)
Field of the Dead: Incidental token generation.
Hall of the Bandit Lord: Hasty big boys.
Inkmoth Nexus: Fantastic when paired with Eldrazi Conscription.
Inventors' Fair: Artifact tutor plus incidental lifegain.
Reliquary Tower: All the greed.
Rogue's Passage: Unblockable Eldrazi.
Scavenger Grounds: Graveyard hate.
Temple of the False God: Extra mana.
Thespian's Stage: Take advantage of extra mana lands
Tomb of the Spirit Dragon: Decent colorless lifegain
Ugin's Labyrinth: Extra mana in the beginning and then I can get the card back later.

Urza's Lands below are self explanatory:

Creatures

Artisan of Kozilek: Graveyard recursion for when the big bois inevitably get removed.
Bane of Bala Ged: Gonna swap out...
Conduit of Ruin: Tutors on cast and gives us per turn essentially.
Eldrazi Mimic: Gonna swap out...
Emrakul, the Promised End: Big bad Eldrazi.
Emrakul, the World Anew: Good luck without your creatures there bud...
Endless One: Often a really big Eldrazi boi. Potential swap out...
Flayer of Loyalties: A bad time for your opponents
It That Betrays: I get everything from the annihilator triggers, hehe.
It That Heralds the End: Get the big bois out sooner and make them even bigger.
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth: Big bad Eldrazi.
Kozilek, the Broken Reality: Hahahaha just screw you at this point.
Kozilek, the Great Distortion: Source of colorless card draw and counter magic.
Kozilek's Channeler: Ramp
Oblivion Sower: Ramp, possible swap out
Pathrazer of Ulamog: Solid Annihilator plus evasion. Potential swap out...
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre: Big bad Eldrazi.
Ulamog's Crusher: Gonna swap out...
Ulamog's Dreadsire: Lots of big hungry bois!
Void Winnower: Absolute oppression for my opponents.
Zhulodok, Void Gorger: Free spells!

Instants

Desecrate Reality: Wide spot removal plus creature recursion.
Eldrazi Confluence: Since when did colorless have colored options?
Not of this World: Free colorless counter magic!
Scour from Existence: Just straight up removal.
Titan's Presence: Usually a good bet to be solid removal.

Sorceries

All is Dust: All my stuff is safe, yours on the other hand...
Calamity of the Titans: Great mass removal.
Rise of the Eldrazi: Removal, card draw, and an extra turn??? Sign me up!

Enchantments

Echoes of Eternity: Double the Eldrazi!!!
Eldrazi Conscription: Makes any Eldrazi twice the danger and is OHKO with Inkmoth Nexus.

Planeswalkers

Karn, Scion of Urza: Another source of colorless card advantage.
Ugin, the Ineffable: Ramp and card advantage at the same time!
Karn Liberated: A reusable Scour from Existence on a stick that costs the same.
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon: Usually acts as an All is Dust when it drops late game, but if Ugin is out early on, Lightning Bolt for a couple turns is great and his ultimate lends itself very well to high costing Eldrazi.

Artifacts

Chimil, the Inner Sun: Card advantage and protection from counterspells
Commander's Plate: This card is at its best here in a colorless deck where it can provide protection from all colors!
Dreamstone Hedron: Big ramp!
Expedition Map: Usually to grab on of the Urza's lands but can be used situationally as well.
Fellwar Stone: Good ramp and gives me colored mana if I happen upon a card needing it.
Forsaken Monument: Fantastic 3 for 1 deal with buffs, ramp, and life gain!
Fractured Powerstone: Good ramp and extra fun if Planes are involved (casual games only)
Herald's Horn: Ramp and card advantage in one!
Lightning Greaves: Protection and haste, pretty standard.
Liquimetal Torque: Good ramp
Mana Crypt: Got lucky enough to unpack this and it was an auto-include.
Mystic Forge: Great way to burn through my library when I've run out of cards in hand.
Pristine Talisman: Ramp and incidental life gain.
Scroll Rack: Good way to swap out my hand if I don't like it.
Silent Gravestone: Graveyard hate, because every deck needs some graveyard hate.
Sisay's Ring: The next level up of Liquimetal Torque and the like.
Sol Ring: Some of the best ramp out there.
Stonespeaker Crystal: Some more ramp.
Swiftfoot Boots: Protection and haste, pretty standard.
The One Ring: Some of the best card advantage out there.
Thought Vessel: Good ramp and infinite hand size.
Thran Dynamo: Very good ramp.
Unstable Obelisk: Ramp and removal.
Ur-Golem's Eye: More solid ramp.
Winter Orb: Usually devastating for my opponents but not too bad for me with all the ramp and cost reduction.
Worldslayer: I feel obligated to play this for the lulz when paired with Ulamog
Worn Powerstone: Just some more good ramp

My Meta

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The original version of this deck was created in early 2019

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Revision 50 See all

(1 day ago)

+1	Cavern of Souls	maybe
+1	Endbringer	maybe
+1	Homeward Path	maybe
+1	Kozilek's Command	maybe
+1	Mana Vault	maybe
+1	Mirrorpool	maybe
+1	Sanctum of Ugin	maybe
+1	War Room	maybe

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 day
Exclude colors	WUBRG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	22 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 32 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	5.52
Tokens	Construct 0/0 C, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Powerstone, Spirit 2/2 C, Monarch Emblem, Zombie 2/2 B
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