Art by Viktor TitovIn this cooperative game mode the players take on the role of the allies of Zendikar, working together to defeat the otherworldly menace of the Eldrazi.
THE PLAYERSThe players work together as a team and take their turns at the same time, like Two-Headed Giant. They attack and block together and have a shared starting life total of 30.
The players start the game by taking 3 turns in a row to set up their defenses. Play then alternates between the Eldrazi and the players.
The players win if there are no cards left in the Eldrazi deck and no creatures in play under the Eldrazi’s control. The players lose if their life total is 0 or if any player has to draw a card from an empty library.
THE ELDRAZIThe Eldrazi has no controller; its deck runs itself.
The Eldrazi has no life total and cannot gain life. Any time the Eldrazi would lose life, put that many cards from its library into its graveyard.
The Eldrazi has no hand and cannot draw cards. If a spell or ability would put a card into the Eldrazi’s hand it is put into its graveyard instead. Effects that would put a card from its library into its hand are ignored instead.
*Deathless Behemoth is a special exception to this rule. See below.
At the beginning of the Eldrazi’s precombat main phase it reveals the top 2 cards of its library per player and casts them without paying their mana costs. Reveal and resolve these cards one at a time.
*The Eldrazi will also reveal an extra card for each Retreat it exiled (see below).
The Eldrazi has infinite mana and will never activate the mana abilities of permanents it controls. At the end of each of its precombat main phases, the Eldrazi will activate each of its non-mana abilities once if able.
Choosing TargetsThe players choose all targets for the Eldrazi’s spells and abilities, but the Eldrazi will never target itself or its creatures with harmful effects.
*Spells and abilities that change the target of a spell or ability can Redirect an effect to an Eldrazi, but when choosing the initial targets the players must choose from among their own permanents.
If an Eldrazi spell does not have enough legal targets for a spell, it will try to target as much as it can.
*For example, the only creature on the battlefield is controlled by the Eldrazi, and it reveals Grip of Desolation. The Eldrazi will exile one of the players’ lands, but it will not exile its own creature.
If there are no legal enemy targets for any part of the spell, the spell is not cast and is put into the graveyard instead.
*For example, the Eldrazi has a Thought Harvester in play when it reveals an Oblivion Strike. The players have no creatures in play, so the spell is discarded without being cast. Because no spell was cast, Thought Harvester’s ability will not trigger.
Creatures the Eldrazi control have Haste and attack each turn if able.
Creatures the Eldrazi control with base power or toughness 5 or greater that enter the battlefield tapped.
*They are “on the horizon” and will attack next turn!
The Eldrazi will always try to destroy the blocking creature with the greatest power. In the event of two or more creatures with the same power, the players may choose their blocking order.
If the Eldrazi have an untapped creature available to block it will always block the attacking creature with the highest power it can, regardless of other abilities like Trample.
THE RETREATSThe 5 Retreat cards are shuffled into the Eldrazi deck at the start of the game.
If the Eldrazi reveals a Retreat during its main phase, it exiles it instead of casting it. On subsequent turns the Eldrazi will reveal 1 additional card for each exiled Retreat during their precombat main phase.
If a Retreat is put into the Eldrazi’s graveyard any player may immediately cast it without paying its mana cost.
THE EXPEDITIONSDuring setup the players put 5 expeditions into their Command Zone face up.
These Expeditions cannot be cast.
Whenever a land enters the battlefield under a player’s control, that player may put a Quest counter on ONE of the face up Expeditions.
Once an Expedition has 3 Quest counters on it, any player may activate its ability by removing the counters and turning the card face down (instead of sacrificing it).
Special Exception: The lands from the Khalni Heart Expedition will NOT put counters on other Expeditions. They will still trigger other Landfall abilities as normal.
SPECIAL RULESPlaneswalkers: If a player controls a Planeswalker, the Eldrazi will attack the Planeswalker instead of the player. However, any damage dealt above the Planeswalker’s loyalty is dealt to another Planeswalker in play, or its controller if no other Planeswalkers are on the battlefield. Players may choose in what order their Planeswalkers take damage.
Ingest: The players decide who is being attacked each turn. This means that the players decide whose library will lose a card when a creature with Ingest deals combat damage to them.
Processors: Whenever a Processor enters the battlefield, if there are enough cards in exile to pay for its ability, and its ability has a legal target, it will put the necessary cards into their owners’ graveyards. The players decide which cards to move from exile.
*For example, the Eldrazi reveals a Wasteland Strangler and the players have 2 cards in exile. If the players have at least 1 creature in play, they will put a card of their choice from exile into their graveyard and one of their creatures will get -3/-3. If they have no creatures in play then no card will be moved from exile.
Deathless Behemoth: If Deathless Behemoth is in the Eldrazi’s graveyard at the end of its precombat main phase, it will sacrifice 2 Scion tokens if able and will immediately cast the Behemoth.
*Normally effects that put cards into the Eldrazi’s hand put them into the graveyard instead. This is an exception to that rule.
Molten Nursery: The Eldrazi only targets players with Molten Nursery, never creatures.
Eldrazi Horde Optional Rules for harder games- Overwheming Numbers: Reveal 3 cards per player each Eldrazi turn instead of 2.
- Impossible Speed: Eldrazi with base power or toughness 5 or higher can attack right away (they don’t enter tapped).
- Crippling Touch: All Eldrazi have Wither (they deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters).
- Unnatural Resistance: All Eldrazi get +0/+1.
- Total Ruin: When the Eldrazi reveals a Retreat, in addition to exiling it, it reveals 2 extra cards immediately.
- Unending Tide: When the Eldrazi deck runs out for the first time, shuffle its graveyard into its library.
- The Final Showdown: When the Eldrazi deck runs out for the final time, return all Eldrazi with base power or toughness 5 or higher from the graveyard to the battlefield.
- Benthic Infiltrator
- Blight Herder
- Blisterpod
- Blisterpod
- Brood Monitor
- Culling Drone
- Culling Drone
- Culling Drone
- Culling Drone
- Deathless Behemoth
- Dominator Drone
- Dominator Drone
- Dominator Drone
- Eldrazi Aggressor
- Eldrazi Aggressor
- Eyeless Watcher
- Eyeless Watcher
- Incubator Drone
- Mind Raker
- Mind Raker
- Mist Intruder
- Mist Intruder
- Mist Intruder
- Mist Intruder
- Murk Strider
- Murk Strider
- Ruination Guide
- Ruination Guide
- Scion Summoner
- Scion Summoner
- Scion Summoner
- Thought Harvester
- Thought Harvester
- Tide Drifter
- Vestige of Emrakul
- Vestige of Emrakul
- Vile Aggregate
- Wasteland Strangler
- Call the Scions
- Call the Scions
- Flaying Tendrils
- Oblivion Strike
- Swarm Surge
- Swarm Surge
- Touch of the Void
- Touch of the Void
- Witness the End
- Witness the End
- Adverse Conditions
- Grip of Desolation
- Scour from Existence
- Molten Nursery
- Retreat to Coralhelm
- Retreat to Emeria
- Retreat to Hagra
- Retreat to Kazandu
- Retreat to Valakut
- Ior Ruin Expedition
- Khalni Heart Expedition
- Soul Stair Expedition
- Sunspring Expedition
- Zektar Shrine Expedition
- Ulamog's Despoiler
- Ulamog's Despoiler
- Ulamog's Despoiler
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