The Year of Brew

Week 17 and 18: New Arc, New Extremes

09 May 2021 - 5 min read

Yayyyyyyy!! It’s a new Arc y’all and it’s time to get crazy! We’ve done a lot of things, hit a lot of different points so far in the Year of Brew. But, now we need to turn it up to 11 and go to the extreme: its the Arc of All or Nothing!

Deck 17: Colorless

For our first deck in this special Two-for-One Special, I’ve called upon my co-founder Chev. Chev is a expert in many things, including the most noodley of boys, the Eldrazi. Which is perfect, because our first All or Nothing is… No Colors!

This is Chev’s personal Kozilek, the Great Distortion deck that has been wrecking havoc on our playgroup for many moons (lol @ emrakul), and that I’ve helped him revise more times than I care to count. He only just took out Ice Cauldron , that was like pulling teeth. The deck can be found on Moxfield here.

King of the Jungle

Commander

Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Artifacts

Basalt Monolith
Chromatic Orrery
Cloud Key
Commander's Plate
Erratic Portal
Everflowing Chalice
Expedition Map
Forsaken Monument
Fractured Powerstone
Hedron Archive
Helm of Awakening
Lightning Greaves
Mana Vault
Manascape Refractor
Manifold Key
Mind Stone
Mind's Eye
Mystic Forge
Rings of Brighthearth
Sculpting Steel
Sensei's Divining Top
Skyclave Relic
Sol Ring
Staff of Domination
Strionic Resonator
Swiftfoot Boots
Thought Vessel
Thran Dynamo
Urza's Incubator
Wayfarer's Bauble
Worn Powerstone

Creatures

Artisan of Kozilek
Bane of Bala Ged
Burnished Hart
Conduit of Ruin
Desolation Twin
Duplicant
Emrakul, the Promised End
Endbringer
It That Betrays
Jhoira's Familiar
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
Metalworker
Oblivion Sower
Pathrazer of Ulamog
Reality Smasher
Solemn Simulacrum
Thought-Knot Seer
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Void Winnower
Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands

Instants

Not of This World
Scour from Existence
Titan's Presence
Warping Wail

Planeswalkers

Karn Liberated
Ugin, the Ineffable
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Sorceries

All Is Dust
Environmental Sciences
Introduction to Annihilation

Lands

Ancient Tomb
Bonder's Enclave
Buried Ruin
Command Beacon
Cryptic Caves
Eldrazi Temple
Encroaching Wastes
Eye of Ugin
Ghost Quarter
Haven of the Spirit Dragon
Homeward Path
Inventor's Fair
Mage-Ring Network
Mirrorpool
Myriad Landscape
Reliquary Tower
Rogue's Passage
Sanctum of Eternity
Sanctum of Ugin
Scavenger Grounds
Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
Tectonic Edge
Temple of the False God
Thespian's Stage
Urza's Mine
Urza's Power Plant
Urza's Tower
Vesuva
War Room
Wastes x5
Winding Canyons
Witch's Clinic
Zhalfirin Void

Deck 17: Five-Color (WUBRG)

Well now that we’ve explored the spooky void that is a colorless commander deck, let’s return to the realm of the sane and living. In fact, let’s rejuvenate ourselves to the max with the second part of our all or nothing… All Five Colors!

Now, as much as I love to give Chev shit about his interdimensional monstrosities, there are some cool and powerful Eldrazi to play with. In fact, there happen to be plenty that Chev can’t play because they have color. So I figured I’d give the Eldrazi a fresh coat of paint with a WUBRG list.

We chose Morophon, the Boundless as a generic five-color catch-all. He reduces all our ‘drazis by at least one, if not more, and he buff them all. Which is sick because we’re focusing on making a LOT of ‘drazis by creating tokens: Eldrazi Spawns and Scions (and yes we’re including Parallel Lives and Anointed Procession cause we can).

All these will help us be aggressive, turbo out a bigger creature, and forego the high power and monetarily expensive suite of artifact mana Chev is rocking (lol). We do retain classics like Urza’s Incubator and Mystic Forge , but Cryptolith Fragment and Chromatic Orrery provide nice inclusions to accomodate our color needs.

Rounding out our sweet of spawners are must-haves such as Awakening Zone , From Beyond , Brood Monitor , and Emrakul’s Hatcher . Perfect to pump up and swing out with a Broodwarden or Decimator of the Provinces .

A few more all-stars we get by adding colors are Elder Deep-Fiend , Herald of Kozilek , and Drowner of Hope , all classics from Eldritch Moon Standard.

Now this deck isn’t nearly as focused, tuned, or powerful as Chev’s… but it is a refreshing take on a tribe classicly devoid (again, lol) of color and thus limited in its scope and playstyle. If you want a nice casual deck to noodle around with (okay I’m done with the puns), this is a great bet!