Summary
Not long off the heels ofCommander Master’s Eldrazi Unbound preconin 2023,Magic: The GatheringreleasedanotherEldrazi Commander deck, this time the five-color Eldrazi Incursion precon. Two back-to-back Eldrazi decks might seem like overkill, but Eldrazi Incursion took the exact opposite approach to its color identity, playing with all the colors instead of none at all.
Despite being a deck themed around colorless creatures, specifically those with the devoid mechanic, the two new commanders for this deck both have all five colors in their color identities, which opens up so much more design space than what was available in the Eldrazi’s first precon outing. It’s full of otherworldly monstrosities, new and old.
10Eldrazi Conscription
Build-An-Eldrazi
Eldrazi Conscription is one of three notable value reprints in Eldrazi Incursion, alongside Morophon, the Boundless and Eldrazi Monument. Conscription has been capturing hearts since its first printing in 2010, and it’s received few wide-scale reprints since then.
Some decks can consistently produce enough mana to cast Conscription and devastate the opponent they attack, but most decksrunning this auraare trying to sneak it into play in various ways. It’s one of the best auras to tag out with Arcanum Wings, or reanimate with One Last Job.
9Hideous Taskmaster
Annihilated By Your Own Cards
Hideous Taskmaster combines two things that players tend to hate: Annihilator andstealing permanents. Here you’ll be ‘borrowing’ a creature from each opponent, granting those creatures Annihilator 1 for the turn, then smashing with those plus the 7/2 hastey beater you just added to the board (with its own Annihilator).
Taskmaster’s very similar to a card of old, Molten Primordial, which still sees occasional casual play in big-mana, big-creature decks. Taskmaster has a distinct advantage of stealing creatures via a cast trigger, meaning you’ll still snag some temporary attackers even if your Eldrazi gets countered.
8Eldrazi Confluence
Perfect Removal For Colorless Decks
The abilities on Eldrazi Confluence aren’t game-warping by any means, but this spell represents a lot of flexibility for colorless Commander decks.A five-color deckhas access to all the best interaction it could possibly need, but colorless-only decks are heavily restricted in that department.
The key mode on this Confluence is the +3/-3 mode, which gives colorless decks a great middle-of-the-road removal spell that can take out multiple threats. If you can mix and match modes toblink a value creaturewhile sniping down some opposing creatures, all the better.
7Morophon, The Boundless
The Hidden Third Commander
Morophon’s great at poking its head into any five-color deck built around typal synergies. It’s such a ubiquitous card, even spearheading many of those decks as the actual commander and giving them a powerful cost reduction ability straight out of the command zone.
Morophon was an obvious reprint for the Eldrazi Incursion deck, where it pumps your Eldrazi creatures and makes Ulalek, Fused Atrocityfree to cast. Morophon’s not exactly maximized here though, since few Eldrazi creatures have more than one or two colored pips in their mana costs.
6Eldritch Immunity
Players love their protection spells, and Eldritch Immunity’s bound to see a decent amount of play, despite a somewhat restrictive mana cost. Decks can usually produce at least one colorless mana on a consistent basis, but it’s still a deckbuilding restriction to consider.
The overloaded protection abilityis a bit overcosted, but it justifies that by having the modal option of saving a single target for just one mana. You can also view this as a proactive finisher, since giving an entire board of creatures protection from each color will often make them close to unblockable.
Remember, colorless is not a color! Eldritch Immunity does not give your creatures protection from colorless.
5Azlask, The Swelling Scourge
An Eldrazi With Years Of Experience
Azlask is the back-up commander for Eldrazi Incursion, and maintains the deck’s color identity with the colored mana pips in its rules text. This one plays a slightly different game than Ulalek, rewarding you for stockpiling Eldrazi Spawn and Scions instead of using them for mana.
The reward is a massive board pump and a bunch of Annihilator triggers, which can decimate opposing boards in combat. There’s also something to be said for this being a five-color commander that uses experience counters, giving you a viable commander for an ‘experience counter deck,’ if such a thing exists.
4Eldrazi Monument
Still Standing The Test Of Time
Eldrazi Monument has never stopped being effective in the decks that still run it, and it’s certainly been obstinate about its price tag. It was hovering around $10 before the reprint, and possibly poised to maintain that price due to the high demand of the Eldrazi Incursion deck.
It’s also a straightforward design.Give your team a huge buff, but at the cost of losing a creature each turn. That means you either need a steady stream of expendables to keep it around, or you can use it as a coup de grâce and win the turn you play it.
3Angelic Aberration
Great For Spawn, Scions, And Tokens Of All Kinds
The body horror’s pretty extreme on this art, but so too is the payoff this provides to token decks. Angelic Aberration is a clear payoff for amassing a board of Eldrazi Spawn and Scions, transforming them into an army of 4/4 eldritch Angel tokens.
Aberration ports over intonormal token decksperfectly. There’s some disconnect if you’re playing a bunch of +1/+1 anthem effects, but barring that anti-synergy, Angelic Aberration can massively upgrade an entire board of 1/1 Saprolings, Humans, Plants, or whatever small tokens you have lying around.
2Ulalek, Fused Atrocity
More Flexible Than It Seems
As the face commander of the deck, Ulalek’s ability is a bit confusing, but it’s worded such that you can copy your Eldrazi spellsandthe cast triggers usually associated with Eldrazi. And you need to be doing that often, because it has meager stats on its own.
The daunting mana cost works in Ulalek’s favor, allowing you to substitute any color of mana with a colorless mana instead. You could even run this as the commander of a two- or three- color deck, ignoring the additional color requirements and playing enough colorless sources to make up the difference.
Ulalek copiesallactivated and triggered abilitieson the stack, even ones that came from non-Eldrazi courses. Try to sneak some in while your other Eldrazi/triggers are on the stack!
1Mutated Cultist
The Accidental Combo Card Of The Deck
Mutated Cultist is far and away the strongest new card from the precon. It’s incredible just how powerful the card can be with the right support pieces, and that’s coming from a creature that can just baseline kill a planeswalker or reset something with +1/+1 counters on it.
Where this really earnsits Horror typingis alongside counter-based permanents like Dark Depths and Regenerations Restored. In the case of Dark Depths, you can removal all ten counters from the land, create the 20/20 Marit Lage,andreduce the cost of your next spell by ten mana!
