Emrakul Turn Control by Frostlord
Format: Commander
Commander: Emrakul, the Promised End
Bracket: 4
DeckCheck Threat Index: 21
Deck overview
This deck is a colorless control build centered on Emrakul, the Promised End. It spends the early turns ramping with mana rocks, cost reducers, and utility lands to cast high-cost Eldrazi threats ahead of curve. On Turn 6, the deck casts Emrakul to hijack an opponent's turn, using their own spells and permanents against them to dismantle opposing boards. The deck uses repeatable bounce engines like Sanctum of Eternity and Erratic Portal to recast Emrakul, locking opponents out of the game while swinging for lethal commander damage. Asymmetric sweepers such as All Is Dust and Selective Obliteration clear opposing colored permanents while preserving your own board. Although the deck boasts high individual card quality, strong late-game inevitability, and built-in protection on its titans, it is vulnerable to early artifact wipes and takes multiple combat turns to eliminate the entire table.
Decklist (100 cards)
- 1 All Is Dust
- 1 Amonkhet Raceway
- 1 Ancestral Statue
- 1 Avishkar Raceway
- 1 Blast Zone
- 1 Blasted Landscape
- 1 Blood Clock
- 1 Buried Ruin
- 1 Burnished Hart
- 1 Buster Sword
- 1 Cactus Preserve
- 1 Calamity of the Titans
- 1 Capital City
- 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
- 1 Command Beacon
- 1 Conduit Pylons
- 1 Conduit of Ruin
- 1 Darksteel Monolith
- 1 Desecrate Reality
- 1 Dreamstone Hedron
- 1 Echoes of Eternity
- 1 Echoing Deeps
- 1 Eldrazi Confluence
- 1 Eldrazi Conscription
- 1 Eldrazi Temple
- 1 Emergence Zone
- 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
- 1 Erratic Portal
- 1 Everflowing Chalice
- 1 Expedition Map
- 1 Eye of Ugin
- 1 Gallifrey Council Chamber
- 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
- 1 Geode Golem
- 1 Gerrard's Hourglass Pendant
- 1 Glaring Fleshraker
- 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
- 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
- 1 Hedron Archive
- 1 Helm of Awakening
- 1 Hidden Grotto
- 1 Inventors' Fair
- 1 Jhoira's Familiar
- 1 Karn, the Great Creator
- 1 Kozilek's Command
- 1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
- 1 Lavaspur Boots
- 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
- 1 Lightning Greaves
- 1 Mariposa Military Base
- 1 Mask of Memory
- 1 Mind Stone
- 1 Mind's Eye
- 1 Mirrorpool
- 1 Muraganda Raceway
- 1 Not of This World
- 1 Null Elemental Blast
- 1 Oblivion Sower
- 1 Palladium Myr
- 1 Petrified Field
- 1 Racers' Scoreboard
- 1 Rise of the Eldrazi
- 1 Sanctum of Eternity
- 1 Selective Obliteration
- 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
- 6 Snow-Covered Wastes
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Solemn Simulacrum
- 1 Starting Column
- 1 Stone Calendar
- 1 Storm Cauldron
- 1 Sunscorched Desert
- 1 Super State
- 1 Swiftfoot Boots
- 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
- 1 The Dominion Bracelet
- 1 The Eternity Elevator
- 1 Thought Vessel
- 1 Thran Dynamo
- 1 Troop of Ponies
- 1 Ugin's Mastery
- 1 Ugin's Nexus
- 1 Ugin, Eye of the Storms
- 1 Ugin, the Ineffable
- 1 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
- 1 Umbilicus
- 1 Urza's Cave
- 1 Urza's Incubator
- 1 Vedalken Orrery
- 1 Victory Chimes
- 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
- 1 War Room
- 1 Warping Wail
- 1 Witch's Clinic
- 1 Zhalfirin Void