[ROE] UB - spawning grounds (casual)

There’s one other way I’ve found to cast huge Eldrazi spells, but it also involves cheating one particular one into play. It utilizes the funky infinite mana combo Training Grounds, Filigree Sages, and Khalni Gem, along with a few other synergies:


Spawning Grounds
Suggested by Bennie Smith on 2010-05-02 as a potential deck for Standard
As written about in http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/standard/19244_You_Lika_The_Juice_Throwing_Flying_Spaghetti_Monsters_Against_The_Wall.html
Print this deck!
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Maindeck:

Artifacts
4 Khalni Gem

Artifact Creatures
4 Filigree Sages

Creatures
4 Calcite Snapper
4 Enclave Cryptologist
4 Merfolk Looter
4 Spawnsire Of Ulamog
4 Sphinx Of Lost Truths


Enchantments
4 Training Grounds

Sorceries
4 Rise From The Grave

Basic Lands
12 Island
4 Swamp

Lands
4 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Drowned Catacomb

The lynchpin card is Spawnsire of Ulamog - once you get infinite mana, you can easily cast him and then use his 20-mana ability to start casting Eldrazi spells from your sideboard. Plan B is Looting Spawnsire into the graveyard and then reanimating him with Rise from the Grave with two Training Grounds in play, which lets you use his other ability to make infinite mana and then use the 20 mana ability.

The kill cards reside in the Sideboard: 2 All Is Dust, 1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, 1 Not of this World, 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, and 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth. I figure you lead with All Is Dust, and a second one if that gets countered, and then start dropping Emrakul, Ulamog, and Kozilek. Not of this World is your 20-mana counterspell to make sure one of your Eldrazi gets to live long enough to swing in for the win.

I probably need to work some number of Deprives or Negates into the maindeck to protect myself and the combo. Another option is to work Deathgreeters into the deck to turn the infinite mana via Spawn tokens into the actual kill method. I have to admit the deck feels like it should have no shot at being competitive, but I’m very intrigued to try it out anyway.