Eldrazi Assault

by Talonstrike53 on 19 April 2025

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

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Deck Description

Eldrazi Assault is an aggressive, combat driven playstyle with spells to clear the way and keep your creatures pressing the advantage. Mill your opponents with the ingest/exile mechanic on your creatures and spells to control the battlefield and set the tempo. Eldrazi Assault is meant to dominate the pace of the game and render your opponent inoperable from the opening hand to the final life-point on their D20.

How to Play

CLIFF NOTES: Use creatures and spells to exile cards, then utilize exiled cards to clear the board and win the game.

Ingest is the key to opening up your ability to set the tempo and control the pace of the game.
Start with Sludge Crawler and Culling Drone to get the mechanic rolling.
Transgress the Mind will help to give you early control as well, exiling turn 3 and up cards from your opponents hand while fueling Processor Assault in the...process. Continue to cripple with Touch of the Void and Complete Disregard or Grip of Desolation if they have those multi-color lands and a heavy hitter.
If you can't get creatures through to get ingest, Grasp of Darkness is a good substitute for Touch of the Void and Complete disregard, giving way to lower mana curve and inevitable removal.
Nettle Drone. You only get one and its not the core of your mechanic so that's okay. However, since all your cards are colorless, it is massively annoying to deal with creating two opportunities:
1.) If in your starting hand, each turn you will do at least 1 damage starting on turn 4: Tap and Ping for 1 damage, play a colorless spell (then untap). Leave it untapped until their end step (potential blocker) to tap one more time before your upkeep, unless they go to kill it which brings us to opportunity number
2.) They will waste a spell on a 3/1 over an annoying utility and call it worth it, leaving your better creatures relatively safe. If they do kill it, just tap it one last time on the stack for the "last laugh" on the way out.
Forerunner is just hard to pass up. you get a 3/2 on turn 2 witch can make turn 3 devastating if you play a culling drone or sludge crawler and pay the 1 open mana for the haste. Late game (if it makes it) your heavy hitters will have a chance to come out of the gate swinging too so; what's not to like?
Vile Aggregate is two fold: At turn 3 you'll have a wall to block damage and a late game powerhouse with trample/ingest to continue your assault with ferocity. While more situational, it's nice to have if ingest is not going well so you have time to set up removal and build into more creatures.
Flayer Drone, Mind Raker, and Dust stalker are really dealers choice on when you play them, each with their own strong suit.
While Barrage Tyrant isn't the strongest card, it's utility can greatly turn the late game in your favor. Either pay 2(R) and sling Ruin Processor at their life points or block an attack. Then before damage is declared, pay 2(R) and hurl the blocking creature at the enemy player (metaphorically of course) negating their damage and doing some damage yourself in the process. It's a "last ditch effort" to ensure they bleed..life points of course.
Ruin Processor makes up for bad early games or fizzled draw steps with the ability to gain 5 life back each time you play it and being a terrifyingly tough creature to put in the graveyard. Unless you fling it. In which case 7 unavoidable damage is a decent trade-off. By the time you play Ruin Processor you should have plenty of exile to pull from and, at worst, a 7/8 to turn the game or put their final nail in the coffin.

Turn Against is a good alternative for Dust Stalker. At instant speed and after attackers are declared, you can gain control of a creature, forcing them to block it or take damage. Since Dust Stalker can't stay on the board without another colorless and their late game heavy's can make it feel a bit underwhelming, Turn Against can reset the balance. You get a free blocker, possibly kill a creature with their own, and watch in awe as the expression of disappointment and unbelief takes them over.

Deck Tags

  • Assault
  • Combat
  • Ingest
  • Exile
  • Eldrazi
  • Red
  • Black
  • Deny

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

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