@@AngelRMota unfortunately the Modern Horizon series is considered to be "alternate timeline" content so I don't believe the new material is canon - however if I end finding some new stuff i will probably make a short with that info :)
A friend of mine and I share a theory: Based on Emrakul’s statements about how the realm wasn’t ready for her and it wasn’t her time, the Eldrazi might serve an unknown purpose. Considering what they all do, it’s entirely possible they reshape realms and the realms begin anew. If that is actually true, then destroying Kozilek and Ulamog was a terrible mistake.
Yup, I thought the same. After all, they were reshaping the plane, not just doing a planar cleansing. Maybe they were some agents of creation. After all, you need chaos to have order.
Going by the "plunging a hand into the pond" analogy, it's possible that what the Gatewatch did was the equivalent of dragging their arm into the pond, rather than the entire being, because even now I refuse to believe Ulamog and Kozilek are fully dead (because they deus ex machina'd that shit in a fucking artbook)
So they’re kind of like scavengers recycling planes? My only problem is that the Eldrazi search ripe planes full of mana, not dying worlds. Also there’s the possibility there are other Eldrazi out there because the multiverse is enormous and it’s possible others are siphoning unknown planes.
Yeooooo same here, i remember when i was a younger teen my brother had gotten me into the game and i was sorting through his cards n playing around with decks and i was always fixated on It that betrays specifically. No other card has ever seemed so dreadful.
I got into magic because I found out I could make a deck of nothing but dogs. Then I I found out I could make one of Bears and I was hooked. The Eldrazi are cool, too, though.
same, i started playing in magic duels and fell in love with the art of the eldrazi. sads me that each titan had a not so creative end.... Ulamog ans Kozilek died by the power of friendship.... and Emrakul imprisoned herself on the moon because the writer want so...
in regards to ulamog and kozilek's fate, it's my understanding that what they did with the leylines was essentially grab onto the hand and yank the entire being onto the plane, pulling the person into the pond, now this was killing zendikar, so the last ditch idea was to ignite the leyline pulling them in, which, when a fire spell is fueled by an entire planes worth of mana, was enough to kill the true bodies of ulamog and kozilek, I could be wrong, but that's how I understood that event. also, mostly a neat fact, but avacyn was not only going mad due to the redirected leylines, she was single handedly keeping emrakul from manifesting on innistrad, even if subconsciously, that probably had some effect, it was only as sorin unmade her that emrakul manifested and began it's thing.
No, that's pretty much what happened. It's why Ugin was mad at the gatewatch. It's not that Ugin, Sorin, and Nahiri couldn't kill the eldrazi. They just didn't know enough about them to know what effect killing them might have. "Yes, yes," said Ugin. "It all follows. You could hold them using the glyph, but without the hedrons to bleed off energy and hold the leylines in place, your only options were to let the titans go or pull them fully into physical space and destroy them." Jace blinked. "You said that wasn't possible." "I said it wasn't possible for you," said Ugin. "And you led me to believe you weren't going to try, so spare me your sanctimony." "Wait," said Nissa. "You knew the titans could be killed? Did you know that when you trapped them here?" Ugin rose up on two legs, towering above them like a schoolmaster. "You've killed two living creatures that were older than worlds," said Ugin. "Without knowing their purpose, their role, the impact of their lives or their deaths-you risked this entire plane and unknown consequences beyond it to kill them. Because you could."
If I'm not mistaken the helvault was designed to protect innistrad from things like the eldrazi, in addition to being a sort of prison. So avacyn was taking on an additional job/role she was not designed for, and not designed for doing alone. This all could've been avoided if sorin had made a way to let things out of the helvault. That way avacyn couldn've been released from the helvault when she got trapped in there, and maybe wouldn't have destroyed it just to get at griselbrand.
@@juliandacosta6841 I think the Helvault was more primarily designed to counter Demons and other "outsiders", I don't think the Eldrazi were in mind when the original lore was written, but it's something that could of been retconned and make sense. I guess it depends on how far in advanced MTG's writters were planning when they made the Inastrad block based around the Helvault.
U neglected the 3rd requirement to open the Eye of Ugin, 1 of the planeswalkers had to be a dragon, hence y Nicol Bolas convinced Sarkhan to go as he could transform into a dragon n thus Bolas would not need to go in person
Emrakul can produce her own brood. While we don’t see them on Inistrad, there are a few eldrazi from Zendikar that are hers, like the card vestige of Emrakul. I think the lack of direct spawns from Emrakul on Inistrad is linked with her being dragged there against her will and didn’t really want to devour the plane, so she didn’t spawn other eldrazi.
I love eldrazi but one thing i have always found weird is how all the ugin cards help eldrazi. Like how the eye of ugin, where the titans were sealed away, makes them cheaper
by the way she says it, emrakul is a force for good that cant help but corrupt everything, like that mutant in marvel that released that releases a deadly gas that kills everyone hes ever known
Eldritch moon was my first set. I pulled a Fevered Visions from my first pack and the art had me hooked. I love all the new (pushed) Eldrazi support to make them feel as threatening as the lore makes them out to be.
Colourless Eldrazi has always been something I wanted to do when I first got into MTG, and the Zhulodok commander deck was such a boon to me, I preordered it as soon as it was open.
Honestly Ulalek seems to simply be a combination of Kozilek and Ulamog and really that in itself is bloody terrifying. They barely managed a win against them as they were but both beings combined and in perfect sync...bad news right there.
The only thing that makes me mad about my beloved Eldrazi is that they are expensive to build but so fun to play. They are the very thing that got me into Magic so I'll gladly pay what's needed to embrace Emrakul's blessing
@@juliandacosta6841 I built a modern colorless deck but I know just what it's missing to achieve the power my beloved Eldrazi deserve, and what I need isn't exactly cheap unfortunately
got into magic during the height of eldrazi. made a rakdos haste deck, it was bad but I learned a lot of stuff. I did quit since I didn't have anyone to play with after we moved, but that was really fun, I'm looking forward to playing again when I got the time, friends and money for it
I have two types of eldrazi decks I like to build. Swarm and Dominance. With swarm I like to summon as many little scions and spawn as possible, buff them and just beat people with them until I get a titan out for the win. With dominance I just go full mana ramp and lots of protections to get as many big bois as I can.
Great Video, Love the lore but I have a big question: Why do you say that Emrakul cannot create spawn? There are a few cards that show Emrakul's spawn. "Emrakul's Hatcher" and "Hand of Emrakul" Definintely seem to suggest she has spawn. Not to mention there is a print of the token with art of one of her spawn.
Ingest/process is my favorite Eldrazi mechanic that never got it's feet off the ground. Maybe some day in the future we'll see it expanded upon. In my true colorless deck, it is barren lands ramping into rocks ramping into Eldrazi and cards cheating out Eldrazi. It's fitting because dead planes are what Eldrazi are drawn towards. The last bastions of civilizations (artifacts) are used by the Eldrazi to bring in their titans. In my sion deck, it's the opposite. It uses all 5 colors to summon and create as many sions as possible to over run the existing life. This 5 color deck does not have the titans in any way.
Awesome content! Can’t wait to see what’s next. Would love to see you really tie the cards and lore together more and maybe reference some flavor text so I can feel the impact of these cards instead of them being separate.
I like how Emerakul talks of herself being "incomplete" as she didn't have Ulamog or Kozilek. Her and the titans look for stagnant planes filled with excess mana. After all, life spends mana through spells, farming, and death. A stagnant plane would be land with no life. Perfect for the Eldrazi to rewrite into a new beggining. Emerakul would normally build off of Ulamog and Kozilek's spawn, this is why she corrupts.
I kind of don't like how we don't have any info on the new eldrazi legends, I hope they give us some lore snippets like they do for nearly every other set of legends. I'd so love to know what the hell is happening with ulalek's name, and if azlask really is a scion of ulamog's or that's just the visual design playing tricks on me.
I heard about the Eldrazi when the mh3 precon deck was announced and they are so interesting. I ended up getting the deck because I ended up enjoying them.
I got into magic for the phyrexians and for skeletons, but I stayed for Eldrazi. The Eldrazi being an absolute at a great cost is fitting. They have the strongest of everything, but are the least mana efficient. This reflects their voracious hunger perfectly. Now, I have a true colorless Eldrazi deck, a "Eldrazi" scion deck,an infect/toxic phyrexian deck, and a Sliver deck. Yes, I am that guy.
I've always thought that the Eldrazi are not evil or good in any sense of the world, they are custodians of the blind eternities, their purpose is to clean worlds of both physical (Ulamog) and magical ( Kozliek) and make it anew (Emrakul) for one reason or another. I don't know too much about their lore, but going off of what the various titan's broods are seen doing in their cards and implied from flavor text that is what I gathered. I think that is why Emrakul allowed itself to be imprisoned in the moon, as it saw Innistrad as a world that was not prepared for rebirth.
Ehh, nahiri vividly remembers fighting side by side with many people, over a presumably long campaign, ending with the last of them being snuffed out as their plane is completely destroyed. I'm starting to think that Ulamog might just be the troublemaker of the group, as the other two seem to have more going on under the hood. I still like to think of them as having some purpose, but also beings who enjoy eating people and planets for the fun of it. And that the only people who were alive at the time of their deaths who will live to suffer the consequences are beings like ugin.
My original Eldrazi deck had a simple strategy. Get enough mana to unleash one of many of the colorless monstrosities you have and equip that thing with a big stick. So Timmy/Voltron
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Thanks for this, man. subbed and liked. It seems like I didn't miss much in not reading the lore cause the writing seems horrible. Better to consume them in small chunks like this video.
I like how, while despite being sealed in the moon, we can still see Emrakul's influence on Inastrad. I also love how each Eldrazi seemed to have an effect that fundementally changed the game in the sets which they were introduced. A subtle way to show their power as cosmic horrors with their meer presence twisting reality. Ulamog's brood I think being one of the first to really interact the exile mechanics outside of just a way to get rid of cards. Kozilek being the one to introduce the colorless symbol. Emrakul introducing the whole Meld mechanic to the game. All 3 mechanics which we have seen continued to have exist in some way in the game today.
You said that emrakul uses living things for her lineage, but what about the original non-legendary emrakul eldrazi from Rise of the Eldrazi? There's only 3 plus the creature tokens, but it seems to suggest that she creates her brood the same way the other titans do. Also, at 11:20 you say that kozilek's brood are thinking beings, but on kozilek's predator, it says "it's difficult to outwit something that doesn't speak, strategize, or even think." Maybe just kozilek's drones, scions, and spawn are incapable of thought? I can't imagine the last two having any use for it.
I used to play MtG casually so many years ago but I don't really have other people to play with nowadays. The first deck I got was Champions of Kamigawa which I played with my older cousins. When I went to college I found that my classmates also played so I decided to get a more up-to-date deck and bought Eldrazi Assault since it was new at the time. The set also had a booster pack that came with it and I managed to get Ulamog, I was so hyped. I really like the aesthetic of the Eldrazi since they're so otherworldly. I also started Bloodborne as my first Soulsborne game shortly after and it was a perfect back-to-back experience of Lovecraftian/Eldritch horror goodness.
2:41 No clue about the channel or anything as its the first time being here, but the word is "El-d-ritch" "El-d-lich" is a yugioh card. In other news, thanks for putting out the video! It's really good timing with all the Eldrazi hype due to Modern Horizons 3.
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It's extreeeemely tedious to find the material unfortunately. There used to be a book for most expansions, but a vast majority of it is from articles on the WOTC website which were taken down that I needed to use the Way Back Machine to bring up. It's a very slow process, and that's after actually finding those links
@@thelonlydarkness i think you can find a few of the comics online. Unfortunately everything is just difficult to find and takes some time to search for
Love the eldrazi, they’re the only reason I play mtg these days. But I would like to point out you missed a connection between the three broods that would explain quite a few things about the lore. Ulamog is hunger and devours mana and a plane leaving wastes and ash in they’re wake. They break down the world. Kozilek shifts and alters the world and transforms it into something new but only basic. Emrakul (which I always pronounce em-RA-kul, feel like the chants from innistrad make more sense when it’s pronounced like that) turns life and creates living things. When you look at it like this, you can see that the three act like a sort of decomposition, the final step in the food chain before starting over. I feel as if amhonket is a wonderful example of a plane that has expired and needs to be cleaned out. How many planes have life cycles and run out of their mana and simply need to be restored or reborn. Which is why emrakul states the land is not ready for her, because the other two have not done their duty yet. We’ve only seen the eldrazi forced or placed into areas that they are not supposed to be. I think ugin’s line about not knowing what they are or their role is also important to keep in mind. Even someone as old and wise as the old planes walkers mean nothing to the cosmic beings that were the eldrazi
