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Going Huge On Turn Two In Modern With Storm Herald Combo!

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Eldrazi Conscription is a very silly Magic card.

Eldrazi Conscription

Some random dude is just walking around on Zendikar minding his own business, when suddenly Emrakul pops out from behind a tree and demands that he touch the blind eternities and grow ten times the size as an honorary spaghetti monster? And that's just from a flavor standpoint!

From a mechanical standpoint it's just as silly, as nobody is spending 8 mana on Eldrazi Conscription basically ever. The card exists to fulfill the job of Biggest Creature Enchantment Ever and be cheated into play when appropriate. In Standard formats long past this job was done by Sovereigns of Lost Alara, but in Modern there's a much more efficient route:

Storm Herald

Can I interest you in turn two annihilation?

Time Stamps:

00:04:41 - Match 1

00:23:16 - Match 2

00:33:04 - Match 3

00:53:29 - Match 4

01:23:10 - Match 5


I can take zero credit for this deck, as it is Zach Allen's baby that he's been working on between working on tournament decks, but once I saw it I knew I had to give it a try.

Unearth
Prodigious Growth
Unmarked Grave

The premise is simple enough; get some combination of Eldrazi Conscription, Battle Mastery, and Prodigious Growth into your graveyard. Then put a Storm Herald onto the battlefield, whether with Unearth or by just casting it. Then attack with your 20ish power creature, annihilate two permanents, and kill your opponent.

To this end there's a ton of draw, discard, and self-mill, and with a perfect draw/mills the deck can kill as early as turn two! Also nice is the utility that cards like Izzet Charm and Prismari Command bring to the table, offering interaction that can deal with hate cards as well as looting effects to find the combo.

As we saw in the league, the deck may not be the best deck in the format, but it's an extremely fun and explosive brew that is very capable of doing serious damage!

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