Card
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Mana cost {11}
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi 10/10
When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent. Indestructible Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 15 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · ROE · #12
- Cheapest printing
- €26.57
- EDHREC salt
- 1.69
- Keywords
- Indestructible, Annihilator
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
15 known combos.
- Atla Palani, Nest Tender + Mirror Entity + Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Produces: Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
View on Commander Spellbook - Syr Konrad, the Grim + Morality Shift + Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Produces: Near-infinite damage
View on Commander Spellbook - Inverter of Truth + Thassa's Oracle + Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Produces: Exile your library and graveyard, Win the game
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2018-12-07 · Wizards of the Coast
Ulamog's ability triggers as you cast it, and that ability resolves before the spell itself. It resolves even if that spell is countered. - 2013-07-01 · Wizards of the Coast
Lethal damage and effects that say "destroy" won't cause a creature with indestructible to be put into the graveyard. However, a creature with indestructible can be put into the graveyard for a number of reasons. The most likely reasons are if it's sacrificed, if it's legendary and another legendary creature with the same name is controlled by the same player, or if its toughness is 0 or less. - 2010-06-15 · Wizards of the Coast
Annihilator abilities trigger and resolve during the declare attackers step. The defending player chooses and sacrifices the required number of permanents before they declare blockers. Any creatures sacrificed this way won't be able to block. - 2010-06-15 · Wizards of the Coast
If a creature with annihilator is attacking a planeswalker, and the defending player chooses to sacrifice that planeswalker, the attacking creature continues to attack. It may be blocked. If it isn't blocked, it simply won't deal combat damage to anything.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast