1. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
There’s no better card than the most enormous, flashiest, most undisputed Eldrazi card to start this list.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, costs fifteen mana, enters as a 15/15, and can’t be countered either. It also got annihilator six – yes, really – and protection from colored spells.
But that all pales in comparison to Emrakul’s signature ability. When you cast the card, you take an extra turn – one of the best abilities in Magic, no question about it. But during Emrakul’s second turn, its summoning sickness also wears off, so you can attack with your 15 power behemoth and end the game there and then.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn doesn’t even have a track record of Commander use. It is so good that it’s banned in the format!
However, the ban doesn’t apply for Legacy, where this version of Emrakul remains a beloved finisher and staple of the format’s hardest-hitting decks.
2. All Is Dust
For seven mana, each player sacrifices all colored permanents they control.
All Is Dust is a simple but incredible Eldrazi card. This sweeper, a Tribal Sorcery, can be searched alongside Eldrazi creatures and benefit from any cost reductions.
Another reason All Is Dust is one of the best Eldrazi cards is because it forces players to sacrifice their permanents. While other wraths destroy, All Is Dust instead gets around protection abilities entirely. It even keeps your other colorless Eldrazi in play too.
All Is Dust is a powerful card, so it’s no surprise it has had an equally powerful competitive impact.
This Eldrazi wrath has picked up a total of four Top 8 finishes across various Pro Tours and Mythic Championships.
3. Endless One
Endless One is a genuinely unique Eldrazi. Unlike its high-power siblings, this creature has 0/0 power and toughness, for starters.
It also has a casting cost of X. However, it isn’t useless, far from it.
Honestly, Endless One is one of the best Eldrazi cards in Magic since it scales so well. Whatever you paid for X, it enters the battlefield with that many +1/+1 counters on it. This ability means you could cast an infinitely powerful Endless One if you wanted.
Alongside cost-reducing cards like Eye of Ugin, a player could end their first turn with two 2/2 Endless Ones in play.
No wonder it did so well, picking up a total of seven Pro Tour Top 8 finishes, including one first-place. And that’s not even counting its Vintage successes.
4. Eldrazi Conscription
Eldrazi Conscription is the most powerful Aura in Magic’s history, and it has the track record to back it up.
As well as being a favorite of Commander players – especially in Voltron or Enchantress decks – Eldrazi Conscription has earned an impressive six Top 8 finishes across Pro Tours and the Grand Prix.
The reason for its success is its unmatched power. Eldrazi Conscription gives a creature +10/+10, trample, and annihilator 2. For good measure, it even turns the enchanted creature into an Eldrazi. Yes, you read that right. The enchanted creature gets +10/+10!
This Tribal Eldrazi Aura turns even the weakest creature into a game-ending threat. It is potent enough to let stronger creatures outright one-shot your opponents.
This Eldrazi card makes for a nearly guaranteed victory if you can cheat it out soon.
5. Thought-Knot Seer
Thought-Knot Seer is the Eldrazi version of a hand attack, and it’s one of the best in the game.
Although more expensive than most hand attacks at four mana value, it more than makes up for it with its 4/4 body and exciting abilities.
When Thought-Knot Seer enters the battlefield, you can look at your opponent’s hand and exile a nonland card from it. Not only does this ability synergize with other Eldrazi exile cards, but the chosen card is gone forever. When Thought-Knot Seer dies, that player only draws a new card.
Ever since its release in Oath of the Gatewatch, Thought-Knot Seer has remained a dominant Eldrazi card in everything from Modern to Vintage to 2016 Standard.
Thought-Knot Seer has seen play in over ten Top 8 decks across Pro Tours, Worlds, and Mythic Championships.
6. Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
An archetypal Eldrazi Titan, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, is a card that demands an immediate answer.
If your opponent can’t kill this creature, it’ll kill them in two attacks with its mill ability alone. See, whenever Ulamog attacks, you exile the top twenty cards of the defending player’s library!
And that’s not all either. When you cast Ulamog, you can exile two target permanents. This way, you can easily remove all opposition to Ulamog’s devastating 10-power attacks.
A card as epic as Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger must have a matching competitive record. And it does, with a remarkable eleven Top 8 finishes in Pro Tours and Mythic Championships.
I don’t think it’ll stop either, because this version of Ulamog is indestructible too.
7. Kozilek, the Great Distortion
The undisputed Eldrazi of the hundred-card format, Kozilek, the Great Distortion, is EDHREC’s 65th most popular Commander.
Over 2500 decks have this Kozilek leading them, and that’s for a good reason. Kozilek is everything you want in a vast Eldrazi bomb.
First, when you cast Kozilek, you immediately draw back up to seven cards. This ability alone is incredible and excellent for long Commander games – particularly for colorless, which lack many other excellent sources of card advantage.
However, even after it enters, Kozilek is an extreme power on the battlefield. Apart from being a 12/12 with menace, it also has one of the most potent activated abilities in all of Magic.
You can discard a card to counter any spell with the same mana value. And yeah, Kozilek drew you back up to seven.
Enjoy countering everything your opponents cast.
8. Artisan of Kozilek
The reanimator Eldrazi card, Artisan of Kozilek, has seen a remarkable amount of play. And that’s not just in Eldrazi Tribal decks, either.
Artisan of Kozilek saw use in the Green/Black deck that won Pro Tour San Juan 2010, and it is used in over 17000 EDHREC Commander decks.
Here’s why – when Artisan of Kozilek enters the battlefield, you may return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. And while that’s the standard for reanimator cards, Artisan of Kozilek’s stats are not.
Artisan of Kozilek comes in as a 10/9 with annihilator 2 for nine mana. Those stats and abilities alone would make it a worthwhile Eldrazi card. The added-on reanimator ability pushes it over for the edge.
It’s the perfect card to get back the rest of your Eldrazi giants.
9. Endbringer
The appropriately named Endbringer is my penultimate pick for Magic’s best Eldrazi cards, and that’s for a good reason.
Endbringer is one of the most adaptive and useful Eldrazi creatures. It’s comparatively cheap, too, at only five mana.
Endbringer’s versatile suite of abilities has earned it a total of three Top 8s in Pro Tours and Mythic Championships, plus use in two first-place Grand Prix decks.
Specifically, Endbringer has three abilities. In addition to untapping itself during each player’s untap step, it can also ping creatures or players for one damage. Suppose you’re willing to spend colorless mana on it.
In that case, Endbringer can also draw you cards or prevent target creatures from attacking or blocking for a turn.
10. Emrakul, the Promised End
The Promised End of this list, Emrakul’s Eldritch Moon incarnation might be less overpowered than the original, but that’s not saying much.
Emrakul, the Promised End, gives you one of the rarest and most destructive advantages in all Magic.
Emrakul lets you control another player’s turn. With that, you can essentially ruin their entire game and, in multiplayer, even defeat multiple players at once. And, unlike the original, the second Emrakul also has a cost reduction. It costs one mana less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard!
Those abilities alone would make this Emrakul a fantastic Eldrazi card, but that isn’t all.
This Emrakul is also a 13/13 with flying, trample, and even protection from instants. No wonder players used it in seven Top 8 Pro Tour and Mythic Championship decks!
