The Commander
Colorless spells you cast from your hand with mana value 7 or greater have "Cascade, cascade." (When you cast one, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)
Guide
Gameplan
Ramp hard into a colorless mana base, then cast huge Eldrazi (MV 7+) from hand to trigger double cascade, chaining free spells and value off every big drop. You snowball board presence and card advantage until you overwhelm the table with Annihilator beaters or a single backbreaking turn.
Strengths
- Double cascade off every 7+ MV colorless cast generates explosive value and free spells
- Naturally resilient gameplan—colorless Eldrazi are huge threats with built-in card advantage
- Eldrazi cast triggers (Emrakul, Kozilek, Ulamog) pull ahead even when answered
- Strong recursion via Eldrazi titans shuffling graveyard back and being uncounterable
Weaknesses
- Color identity is colorless, so no access to powerful colored interaction, tutors, or counterspells
- Slow and mana-hungry; clunky draws stall hard before you hit 7+ MV plays
- Cascade is variable and can whiff or hit irrelevant cheap spells
- Vulnerable to commander removal—Zhulodok must be on board for cascade to matter
- Board wipes and stax pieces hit hard since you lean on a few big bodies
Key Cards
- Kozilek, the Great Distortion — MV 10 colorless threat that refills your hand and gives a counterspell engine, perfect cascade fuel.
- Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger — Exiles two permanents on cast and threatens to mill out the table, all while triggering double cascade.
- Eldrazi Temple — Doubles down on ramp specifically for your Eldrazi, accelerating into 7+ MV casts.
- Eye of Ugin — Reduces Eldrazi colorless costs and tutors them, key engine for assembling threats.
- Ugin, the Ineffable — Cheap colorless planeswalker that ramps, draws, and removes while you build to bombs.
- Sol Ring — Essential fast mana to bridge into your expensive cast-from-hand payoffs.
- It That Betrays — Annihilator plus stealing every sacrificed permanent makes any cascade hit devastating.
- All Is Dust — Colorless board wipe that spares your Eldrazi-heavy colorless board while clearing opponents.
Upgrade Path
Prioritize fast colorless ramp—Sol Ring, Mana Crypt, Mana Vault, Grim Monolith, and the Eldrazi-specific lands (Eye of Ugin, Eldrazi Temple)—to deploy threats turns ahead of curve. Pack your deck densely with MV 7+ colorless bombs so cascade can never whiff into nothing, and add cost reducers like Ugin's Labyrinth and Kozilek's Channeler. Top-end the curve with multiple Eldrazi titans plus colorless interaction (Karn, the Great Creator; All Is Dust; Spine of Ish Sah) to protect your engine and close games.
Core Cards
- Suspicious Bookcase
- Calamity of the Titans
- Perilous Vault
- Fireshrieker
- Urza's Power Plant
- Ruins of Oran-Rief
- Mirage Mirror
- Kozilek, the Great Distortion
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Forsaken Monument
- Thran Dynamo
- Endless Atlas
Seeded from a single deck — rates appear once more public decks exist.
Win Conditions
- ▸Beat down with Annihilator-laden Eldrazi titans that strip lands and permanents
- ▸Mill the table out with Ulamog or Kozilek graveyard interaction
- ▸Snowball overwhelming card and board advantage from chained cascades into an alpha strike
Archetypes
- Eldrazi Big Mana / Ramp — Zhulodok rewards casting expensive colorless spells, so you build a ramp shell into giant Eldrazi.
- Cascade Value — Every 7+ MV colorless cast cascades twice, turning each big spell into a chain of free value.
- Stax / Taxing — Colorless prison pieces like Trinisphere and Thorn of Amethyst slow opponents while you out-resource them.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.