What are the Eldrazi?

I’ve just been thinking about this since new phyrexia: How will the Eldrazi react to the Sylex detonating in the blind eternities?

I was running a DND campaign set on theros and one of my players was trying to convince me their character could raise their intelligence level to be able to understand eldrazi..... I immediately shot them down by going Jace and ugin couldn't understand them.... Ain't no way a random raven man born on shandalar and yeeted to theros by way of convergence (kind of like the omen paths but more like the convergence from Thor the dark world) can understand the spegeti monsters

Amazing to get Eldrazi content from you! I find them fascinating and definitely my favorite monsters in MTG. I'm currently running a D&D campaign where we are at the final chapter trying to make sure Ulamog doesn't make contact with the world and start annihilating it!

This was actually insightful. The fish bowl analogy really works. Perhaps what we know of the separate entities of Kozilek and Ulamog are actually the combined Ulalek.

Your analogy is surprisingly accurate. Hats off to you loremaster!!

I only just watched a video on the Eldrazi from The Lorebrarians but I love how Ryan presents content that I had to watch this too <3

Honestly, weird connection, but the idea of the Eldrzi being attracted to "advanced" planes made me think of Kamigawa - which, essentially in the past few millennia while the Titans were sealed away, became the first plane we know about to advance technologically past, like... medieval-era fantasy stuff. Pure headcanon but it would kind of explain why the Magic multiverse was trapped in that "fantasy stasis" - planes that got too juicy and too advanced with mana-harnessing technology inadvertently attracted some big multiversal dudes to eat them.

I'm in the reset camp for what purpose the eldrzi serve, as you alluded to Ugin states that the multiverse is infinite but is finite. The eldrazi could serve as a way to take planes that are about to reach a critical point that could cause it to explode and release unwanted energy into the multiverse, this way the eldrazi drain planes and allow them to be reborn thus the eldrazi are a cycle of death and rebirth

Cosmic Horror has a fundamental conflict at its very heart. For a story to work, we need to understand it, the characters, the stakes, the rules of the world... But cosmic horror is born out of ignorance, from trying to understand something and failing miserably, from the knowledge, It's the complete powerlessness of not even being able to grasp just how screwed you are. The eldrazi, and any comic horror, need to strike a balance between being understood and being incomprehensible. I'm not saying that we shouldn't learn more about them, but whatever we learn should be vague, maybe even confusing, and raise even more questions. We should learn more about the eldrazi, but never understand them. The moment we don't have to speculate too much about them, the horror is just gone. That's why I love the last sentence Emrakul tells Jace. It makes enough sense to hint at a motive or purpose, yet it only makes things more confusing. This is why I also think printing Ulalek is genius. Just dropping the fused titans and refusing to elaborate.

I managed to build my eldrazi commander deck! I’m so happy!!!

As far as I can tell, there is no reason to believe that Emrakul, Ulamog, and Kozilek are the only three "Eldrazi Titans" out there. Sure, we have had other legendary Eldrazi, but I'm not sure they are "titan" status. The resulting question is: Would you as a player rather see those three Eldrazi Titans return in future sets, or would you rather WotC introduces us to other titanic spaghetti monsters?

Very good video, thanks! Love the Eldrazi, such a cool idea to have these otherworldly creatures running around.

Even with no advancing plot, Ulalek is such a fascinating addition

My theory is that Eldrazi are native to (or maybe were created by) the plane of Equilor, the oldest known plane in Magic. Urza visited the place to get some help against the Phyrexians and while the elders of the plane did impart Urza with great knowledge of the Multiverse (implying that they know more about the Blind Eternities than an actual planeswalker) they also shrugged off the Phyrexians as inconsequential. Two reasons why I think this is the case: First, Bloodhill Bastion confirms that there is something weird-fleshy-tentacly going on there. Second, Jace wants to reset the Multiverse which is something very Eldrazi-like but needs a map to do it... maybe it's just for Vraska's convenience, but Equilor is explicitly described as "distant", so maybe another explanation is that trying to reach it without both directions and a vehicle (thus Death Race!) would be impossible.

Just started binging your series on the omenpath arc, I don't think I've ever properly read the story, but I think I'll start with the next arc

As a new player I'm still playing catch up with all the magic the gathering lore and these videos are great. Had no idea how much mystery was behind the eldrazi

Secret Lair X Mass Effect, can’t wait to put Krogans in my Time Lord Sauron decks.

Holy crap I never noticed that the art for Bonds of Mortality and Fall of the Titans is depicting the same moment. That's really cool.

To explain this killing of Ulamog and Kozileg using the fish bowl analogy, imagine being able to move the person's heart to their hand in the fish bowl, and then stabbing said heart. That will kill someone outside the fish bowl with just their hand in it.

Love the videos! Commenting so I see y’all across my feed again soon