“Eldrazi are too oppressive” ~The urza player locking the entire game down with winter orb

As an Eldrazi enjoyer I can understand why people are afraid of them, but they're far from the scariest thing in commander

The way I see the Eldrazi is that they were meant to be like Raid Bosses, where everyone plays for themselves during the early game before being forced to team up to defeat the big threat once it arrives. In Lore it took several Planeswalker to beat a single Titan, so they tried to simulate that.

*remembering the last game where I had over 100 Ulamogs Crusher tokens* *clicks on video* "well, lets find out!"

the reason Aeon's torn was banned was because it was all generic mana and early commander was much less powerful so anyone that owned one ran it because even without ramp games would go long enough to afford the steep cost. I'm a firm believer that it could be unbanned in today's meta and make little to no real impact on the balance of things.

THEY FEAR THE BIG NUMBERS AND ANNIHILATOR.

Casual edh players don't often have enough interaction to deal with a bunch of eldrazi. Not to mention the issue of the eldrazi decks being a bunch of ramp ramp ramp that requires a vandalblast or similar. If you have that the overextended Eldrazi deck does nothing if you don't you have a sliver situation where you drown in the advantage the deck gives from the fact that 80-90% of eldrazi are big payoffs

I always love how the "they have powerful cast triggers" argument always comes up as a way of arguing for the titans being stronger and harder to interact with, which is at least partly true. It is harder to interact with those effects and kinda makes it so that even if they get countered, the eldrazi player gets some payoff after the massive mana investment. But trust me, it is more of a limiter than an advantage. You wouldn't want the blink or sacrifice-reanimator players to have access to those effects as ETBs....

I've never really hated Eldrazi - if someone turns up to play with a spaghetti monster as a Commander, you know what's going to happen. Play faster combo decks or keep up interaction. As per always, it's all about the rule zero conversation and ensuring you know what you're up against. People get salty with Eldrazi when they magically appear from a deck that hasn't mentioned it from the start.

I pulled all 3 titans in my box and decided I had to play them. I’ve never really had an opportunity to use eldrazi before. I enjoyed it

When the Eldrazi was first printed I quit Magic because I didn't like the direction the game was going in. After commander became popular I came back and I honestly don't mind the Eldrazi anymore

I don't think they are, they're the same as plenty of decks that attempt to overwhelm the board with threats and sheer value, much the same as The Ur Dragon. It's just important to remember that you'll likely be playing Archenemy if you run it

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My group are mostly precon (with some upgrades) players and sometimes we pool our decks together and create a randomized battle night. We got one Eldrazi deck in our group and the one who pulled that usually got curb stomped to death 😂 “You’re the raid boss and you must be put down fast”

As a Timmy and a person who plays Ulalek, I enjoy the fact that they're big and splashy. The deck is also essentially an upgraded precon. I find them to be fun but the deck also plays the largest ones on turn 5-6, which ya know, is hardly optimal. I think they're fun but also gauging the mood of your playgroup is important! Just like you wouldn't want to eat spaghetti all the time sometimes the people you play with just aren't in the mood to deal with that kind of deck. Communication with the people you regularly play with is important in making sure we're all getting the experience we want out of the games we play.

As my group's Eldrazi player, they call me "The Raid Boss" Because I may not win often but boy am I nightmare to deal with on the way with my Kaiju.

The first Magic deck I ever built was some Eldrazi kitchen table nonsense with All is Dust being misplayed to destroy lands and looped with Panoptic Mirror, a full playset of Sol Rings, and the end game was 16 mana infinite turns with Erratic Portal and Emrakul. It was simultaneously the most glorious thing I've ever seen and an absolute dumpster fire. I'm definitely going to enjoy Ulalek as an actually structured Eldrazi deck.

The problem with Eldrazi is that they’re bigger green creatures with worse ramp. And they do similar things/have similar play styles. They both ramp into their big splashy spells way before they’re meant to be played, leading to oppressive gameplay. The creatures are big and with annihilator they cause salt whenever they do swing in bc it usually means you’re sacrificing your lands or best stuff at some point. They have custom board wipes, (ugin’s binding, all is dust, Ugin the Uneffable, etc) that are essentially all one-sided, not to mention exile. There’s literally only 2 colors that can escape exile effects that don’t target: white and blue. So every other color is super vulnerable to their wipes/annihilator triggers. Then bc of all the ramp, they essentially can rebuild very easily. And now with access to other colors, land destruction is going to be the only thing they’re particularly vulnerable against. So they’re a pain to deal with early bc their creatures are beefy, they ramp fast and hard, they bounce back easily, their spells and triggers are hard to deal with, and they have tons of support. It’s like Slivers in the sense they also snowball out of control, especially with the new commanders post Zhuladok. 2:00

The store I go to absolutely hates Eldrazi xD And I have two Eldrazi decks. It's actually kinda hard to play cause if you get just a little ahead the whole table turns at you real quick.

I always explain that I need to actually cast my spells for the best value. So many other decks can just cheat things out and get full value. Even annihilator feels bad against all the tokens and such flooding the board nowadays

The only one I despise is that Kozilek 2.0 that discards cards to counter spells... because unlike the other ones, this one stops my answers against it from resolving. Maybe Void Winnower too, but this one can't be a commander, so I'm less worried about it.

To this day people will defend that the original Emrakul should remain banned. Being completely honest, it is not hard for these decks to get to 15 mana if not infinite mana. Emrakul is a game ended in almost every format it is legal in. I don't think that Emrakul is so broken he cannot be unbanned, but It is still immune to most removal and board wipes paired with an extra turn on cast that can now be copied into the dirt. To say it isn't a very powerful card isn't true, but if the RC was consistently banning cards, like half of the current format wouldn't exist and some of these new commander cards would get pre-banned.

People hate anything strong, lol.

I use a Rakdos lord of riots eldrazi tribal deck and while it’s very strong in about half the times I win if others players used a bit of removal it would be over for me as I’ve already shown my hand and that I’m indeed in a position to win of course stronger decks can now be made with the new set but what I usually win from is either sarhkans unsealing or I have a turn to wait for until I can attack with my big creatures

They crumble in CEDH, in high power casual expect to get targeted right away but you can still pull through

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they are absurdly undercosted (its too easy to get the mana for them, especially when cards like give you 3 mana of 1 type or etc exist), meaning someone can drop these huge game ending cards early on and if the enemy doesnt have removal, they win basically, even the lower costed ones have absurd value generally

Eldrazi are only strong in casual commander, as most people are hesitant to swing into a player to keep their life low without provocation. If an eldrazi player sits down, they know their game plan is to survive until the haymakers are deployed. Basically, it's this: if you get run over by eldrazi, you lost the game for yourself.

Eldrazi deck are best sellers. Nobody hate them. People hate stax and 1 turn win decks.

I somehow made the new ulalek deck that has a presence in the early game with eldrazi cards that cost 3 to 6 mana and can put 10/10 eldrazi cards in mid game, thanks to artifacts. Sadly I have become the threat to everyone forever just because of one game.

If they weren't liked they wouldn't be so expensive

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Couple board wipes and they be crying

Annihilator got stealth nerfed once every deck can basically spawn treasure tokens by just existing.

Not at all, they are fun to play with and kinda scary to play against, also, it's clear as glass when you beat them or they beat you.

I have never once hated on my destructive hentai.. unless mana.. then bad.

It’s tough to interact with. Cast triggers, annihilator, they make tokens that fix & ramp their mana, exiling 1/2 my deck, cascade, “cant cast spells of even/odd mana” its more of a nuisance to try to deal with.

If you're afraid of Eldrazi, then you haven't met me. I have 157 decks, from Eldrazi, Slivers, Myr, Goblins, Elves, Goad, coin flip, and Stax in each mono color each lead by a Dominus to name a few.

Maybe my deck just sucks but I feel like eldrazi are kinda easy to outcheese

Meanwhile as a sliver main, I proceeded to build both a simic cascade eldrazi and a wubrg devoid scion/spawn horde that mimic both aspects of the 2 most popular sliver builds. XD

Eldrazi were just the height of MtG power creep.

Mono White lifegain + Eldrazi

No, we're still banning Slivers AND eldrazi on casual Thursdays. And if the guy trying to win the game isn't trying to put down the eldrazi player , then was he actually trying to win?

Here´s my issue: Is not that Eldrazi decks are too powerful, as other people mention A LOT of mtg decks and wincons are as powerful if not more powerful. The issue is that it's far too easy to pilot when you compare it to other strategies: I think of Eldrazi decks as an easier version of Mono-Green and/or Gruul: You ramp, you cast big creatures, you turn them sideways and you win. Except with Mono-Green/Gruul you actually have to pilot the deck a lot more to overcome some of the obstacles your opponents might put up as roadblocks to slow you down or even stop you outright. With stuff like Anihilator, Extra Turns, Massive mill, etc. It's just very simple to ramp a lot and keep trying to successfully cast and attack with a Big Eldrazi that will pretty much just brute force your way into winning: You don't have to pick your battles, overcome numbers, overcome interaction and removal through different tactics or different means, your big Eldrazi already has a lot of those things built into so you can just focus on very few tactics without really having to do much about it. The silver lining is that I actually think that if they had WUBRG as a requirement (And not just an option) then it would require at least some more thinking in regards to your mana base, your ramp options, your interaction, etc. The MH3 WUBRG Eldrazi are not enough but a step in the right direction so I do hope there can be seen as slightly more 'fair' for players so it's at least not an automatic case of 'You put ramp rocks and keep trying to cast your commander and eventually just win when you succeed' like it is for a lot of the past and some of the new Eldrazi big cards.

I feel like the only people who don't like Eldrazi don't actually understand how to play the game effectively, especially the mono colorless ones. If you're just using them as a top end to a simic ramp deck or something then I guess they could be annoying? But they're still less powerful than the usualy top end of green or blue imo, lol. Extra turn spells or just the crazy green payoffs like genesis wave are a lot scarier since they're more difficult to deal with when it comes to removal, or even board wipes. #UnbanEmrakul

imo eldrazi are high power decks that are hard to beat for casual power decks even if all three players put themselves together. so the solution would be to just play high power decks yourself. same goes for slivers, enchatress, landfall, artifacts, aristocrats and a lot more decks that in one or another way bend the rule 0 in to a grey area. just that some of them actually can be tuned down and also play in casual tables but that also means strong restrictions (that are for some hard to hold onto them)

Definitely not oppressive, watch most gameplays it probably struggles the most to get going.

I think people hate them because everyone thinks they’re going to hit the board extremely early (CEDh style) and utterly dominate. As someone who’s played both The 5 colour and Colourless Eldrazi decks, this is total bogus. Unless you’re going full CEDH, You are unlikely to dominate every single game.

As an eldrazi player, I hate the pushed new stuff.

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Late comment but Eldrazi are in the same boat as slivers- too competitive for casual decks and far too weak in cedh.