EMN Standard Deck Tech: Eldrazi Black

Distended Mindbender

Eldrazi Red was one of my first Standard decks after the rotation. While it is not that good with regards to speed and performance as compared to its Modern version before the Eye was banned, I still enjoyed its early aggression and late-game smashing with Chandra’s Elementals.

With the coming of Eldritch Moon where the predicted return of Emrakul and her Eldrazi minions became a reality, I came up with a rare Eldrazi card previewed that I think will solidify Black as the color of choice for the archetype. Here is the card:

Presenting my first version of Eldrazi Black in EMN Standard:

Eldrazi Black by Mark Ian Alloso
Standard

Creatures
4 Bearer of Silence
4 Distended Mindbender
4 Hedron Crawler
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Reality Smasher
4 Thought-Knot Seer
2 Wasteland Strangler

Spells
1 Collective Brutality
1 Grasp of Darkness
4 Spatial Contortion
1 Ruinous Path
2 Warping Wail

Lands
4 Caves of Koilos
4 Foundry of the Consuls
1 Mirrorpool
1 Ruins of Oran-Rief
3 Westvale Abbey
1 Nephalia Academy
9 Swamp
1 Sea Gate Wreckage
1 Spawning Bed