Eldrazi Linebreaker
Most Eldrazi ask you to slow down: pay a ramp tax, sink turns into colorless mana, wait for inevitability to arrive. This one runs the other direction, converting a developed board into a single decisive swing rather than a long grind. The combat-step trigger is the mechanism worth studying: it fires before attacks are declared, so the granted haste is live that same turn, and the +X/+0 counts every Eldrazi you control, not the size of the creature receiving it. That decoupling is the whole trick. The pump can land on a freshly cast body, a token, or one evasive attacker, so a clogged ground stall breaks open by funneling all the damage through a single creature while the rest of the crowd stays home. Trample on the body keeps it relevant even when the buff goes elsewhere. It reads as an Eldrazi on its own type line, which makes it both a contributor to X and a legal target for its own pump. Devoid does separate work, keeping the card colorless so it slots into colorless-matters shells without disturbing their identity. The design tension is real and deliberate: the payoff wants a wide board, but the trigger touches exactly one creature, so it rewards go-wide Eldrazi that can also concentrate damage on a single threat. It is not the finisher; it is the accelerant that lets the board finish a turn early, a red-aligned tempo piece cut against the tribe's reputation for winning slow.
