How To Play The Ulamog, The Ceaseless Hunger Commander Deck In Magic: The Gathering

Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger is one of the three Eldrazi titans in Magic: The Gathering. The titans are the leaders of the Eldrazi, with Ulamog doing hefty damage on the plane of Zendikar. Fittingly, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger is a great commander choice to lead an Eldrazi deck.

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While Ulamog itself doesn’t do a whole lot for Eldrazi, the support cards for the creature type make it both easy to cast and allow you to play a ton of other powerful Eldrazi cards. There is a hefty limitation with it, however, as you can only play colorless cards in your deck.

Decklist

The decklist contains three planeswalkers, 33 creatures, three sorceries, four instants, 18 artifacts, three enchantments, and 35 lands. Eldrazi decks are creature-heavy, especially since there aren’t a ton of great colorless instants, sorceries, or enchantments.

Key Cards

Ulamog, The Ceaseless Hunger

The commander of the deck, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger is a massive threat as soon as it hits the battlefield. No matter what, you get to exile two permanents when you cast it, letting you take care of any problem permanents, even if it gets countered.

Once Ulamog is attacking, your opponents will start losing their libraries. Generally, just four attacks are enough to mill someone out of cards in their library. Since the cards are exiled, it doesn’t help graveyard strategies and makes the cards much harder for your opponent to get back.

Forsaken Monument

Forsaken Monument is the most important artifact in the deck. It massively supports colorless creatures and spells, along with doubling up on all mana your mana rocks will make. The stat boost is minor for your large creatures, but your weaker ones will appreciate the extra pump.

The main attraction is adding an additional colorless mana whenever you tap a permanent to make a colorless mana. This leads to a combo where you can generate infinite mana with Basalt Monolith. This is vital as Eldrazi spells cost a ton of mana to cast. Here is how the combo works.

Zhulodok, Void Gorger

A great commander in its own right, Zhulodok, Void Gorger is a phenomenal card you want on the battlefield as quickly as possible. Most of your Eldrazi spells have a high mana value, and Zhulodok will let you cascade twice when you cast them.

This essentially gives you three different spells for the price of one card. Since Eldrazi creatures require such high mana investment, this lets you amass a battlefield much quicker to become a massive threat quickly rather than only casting one spell a turn.

Echoes Of Eternity

Echoes of Eternity is one of the few enchantments in the deck and is by far one of the best cards in the deck. It doubles all of your triggered abilities, as well as copies any colorless spell you cast. A spell includes your colorless creature spells, so as long as they aren’t legendary, you’ll get two copies of them.

Nearly every card in the deck has some kind of triggered ability. Even if they don’t, they have a powerful effect to support the strategy that having two copies of them is amazing. You want to get Echoes of Eternity on the battlefield as quickly as possible, and keep it as safe as you can.

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How To Play The Deck

An Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger deck is all about getting mana rocks down to start casting a ton of Eldrazi spells and flooding the battlefield with powerful creatures. Once you have a lot of mana available, you can start running out your hand. Many creatures in the deck can force your opponents to sacrifice permanents, helping to clear the way for attackers.

You want to get all your mana rocks down as quickly as you can. Eldrazi need a lot of mana to be cast, even the weaker ones still need a fair bit. The deck can’t naturally ramp lands, so they need to rely on artifacts to accelerate their mana acceleration. There are a few mana dorks like Palladium Myr and Kozilek’s Channeler that help, but artifacts are your main mana source.

The primary win condition is winning through combat. With how many cards have annihilator and how powerful the stats on Eldrazi are, you can deal a ton of damage while getting rid of any problems creatures your opponents have. All is Dust can force all colored permanents to be exiled, which in many cases is a one-sided board wipe.

The biggest weakness of the deck is its speed. Once you have a ton of mana, you can start snowballing, but it takes a while to get to that point. Eldrazi have a reputation for being hard to deal with in the late game, so you’ll likely be targeted from the get-go as soon as you reveal Ulamog as your commander. So, expect to be fighting an uphill battle if your opponents decide to take you out before you can stabilize. As soon as you are stable though, you’ll often win the game from there.

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