The Casual Planeswalker » Eldrazi

Killer Combo–“Fresh Eldrazi”

DJ — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:00:00 +0000

Eldrazi decks are always fun to play. It’s great to have one of the greatest threats to the multiverse under your control, allowing you to annihilate your opponents field merely by attacking. The Eldrazi are expensive but handy little Eldrazi Spawn tokens can make themselves useful by sacrificing themselves to give you some extra mana. These little guys are only 0/1s, but with so many cards that create them it’s very easy to end up with five or six of them within a couple turns. You can get out your big Eldrazi with these spawn, but some may have gotten wind of your plans and have a simple Doom Blade
Doom Blade or Go for the Throat
Go for the Throat to cut down your 8/8 annihilator 2 as soon as you spend your 8 mana to play him. An Eldrazi deck needs options and a solution comes from another scourge of the Multiverse: The Phyrexians.

Fresh Meat is a great card that can replace your lost army with some beasts after your opponent wipes the board with Day of Judgement
Day of Judgement or any of the many other mass removal spells in Magic. Really though, it doesn’t need to be your opponent that sent your creatures to the graveyard. You can sacrifice all your creatures if you feel that some 3/3 beasts would serve you better. This works great with the Eldrazi Spawn that usually aren’t doing anything but waiting for you to sacrifice them.

Eldrazi Spawn, like any creature in Magic, will go to the graveyard when they die. The rule that is different for tokens is that once they hit the graveyard they cease to exist. They still count for a creature being put into the graveyard for fresh meat though. Any Eldrazi Spawn you sacrifice that turn will get you a 3/3 beast if you use Fresh Meat.

Combined with even a few Eldrazi Spawn this can be devastating. An army of hungry beasts is pretty good. An army of hungry beasts with a huge Eldrazi to back them up is great.

We’re Baaaaaaaaack – Episode 7

Brad — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:01:41 +0000

We’re bringing the casual Magic hotness once again, in the form of The Casual Planeswalker Podcast!

Episode 7 kicks off with talking more about entering the plane of Mirrodin; namely, Mirrodin Besieged. We talk about our favorite fatty from the set (Blightsteel Colossus), a very intriguing new card (Knowledge Pool).

We also have a HUGE announcement regarding the Grand Prix in Denver and lots more, so kick back and enjoy!

The Misadventures of TCP at the Eldrazi Prerelease

Oz — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:31:28 +0000

We came, we saw, we…got shafted?

Find out why we were disappointed, but still managed to have a blast and win some packs at the Rise of the Eldrazi Prerelease events!

Eldrazi Pre-Release Anticipation

Oz — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:51:39 +0000

We’re stoked about the Rise of the Eldrazi Prerelease event. Listen up as we tell you why!

Our Salute to Fatties!

Oz — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:51:50 +0000

This week we’re going to talk about how Fatties – our favorite huge creatures are going to be influencing the game over the next cycle and some of our favorite old school fatties as well.

Like these guys:

So crank up your flux capacitor, get up to 88mph, and join us for the ride!

Podcast – Leveling Up, The Maddest Planeswalker in Town, and The Absurdity of Eldrazi

Oz — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:38:01 +0000

This week we’re looking at more of the flavor of the upcoming “Rise of the Eldrazi” set.

We’ve got new mechanics, new creatures and *gasp* a new Planeswalker!

At a glance,

Just heaps of awesome in store, so hold on to your hats!

Here it is: