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{{Infobox character
|image=Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre.jpg
|image=Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger.jpg
|name=Ulamog
|name=Ulamog
|birthplace=[[Blind Eternities]]
|birthplace=[[Blind Eternities]]
|lifetime=unknown
|lifetime=Unknown
|race=[[Eldrazi]]
|race=[[Eldrazi]]
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'''Ulamog''', the "Infinite Gyre" is one of the three [[Eldrazi]] titans and the monstrosity whose half-forgotten name came to be known as the [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikari]] [[merfolk]] sea god [[Ula]].
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'''Ulamog''', the "Infinite Gyre" is one of the three [[Eldrazi]] titans and the monstrosity whose half-forgotten name came to be known as the [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikari]] [[merfolk]] sea [[god]] [[Ula]].


==Description==
==Description==
Ulamog is the Titan of Consumption. He and his brood consume living and unliving matter alike, and drain mana and vital energy from everything in the vicinity like a maelstrom. His [[processor]]s transform the consumed energy into [[spell]]-like effects that defy the understanding of Zendikari mages. They leave the white chalky latticelike structures in their wake. Everything including water is transformed into the white manaless husk of what it once was. Ulamog is emblematic of plague, the blind bonds between parasite and host, and overabundance. Ulamog is creation and destruction wrapped together in unholy harmony.
Ulamog is the smallest and weakest of the three Eldrazi titans.<ref>{{WikiRef|author=[[James Wyatt]]|date=2016|title=The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Zendikar|page=20}}</ref><ref name="Visual">[[Jay Annelli]]. (2022.) ''[[Magic: The Gathering - The Visual Guide]]'', [[Wizards of the Coast]]. ISBN-13 978-0744061055.</ref> His head resembles a bony helmet but lacks eyes or expression. Most of his body has the color of exposed muscle and is covered with bony plates. He moves via a writhing mass of tentacles studded with bony spikes below the torso. His two arms split at the elbow and lead to four hands. A stench of rotting meat, decay, and sulfur surrounds him constantly, earning him the name "The Reeking Titan".


The Ulamog brood lineage is characterized by dense masses of suckerless tentacles, multiple withered arms bifurcated at the elbow, and most unsettling, eyeless bony plates in inhuman but vaguely facial forms. The ravenous and brutish Eldrazi of the Ulamog lineage lurch and shudder over the ground, adept at spreading disease and draining from the psyches as well as the life energy of their victims.
Ulamog is the Titan of Consumption, as he and his brood consume living and unliving matter alike. In doing so, they drain mana and vital energy from everything in the vicinity. His [[processor]]s transform the consumed energy into [[spell]]-like effects that defy the understanding of Zendikari [[wizard|mages]], creating plagues, deadly parasites, and endless teeming spawn. The processors leave distinctive white, chalky lattice-like structures in their wake. Everything, including water, is transformed into a white manaless husk of what it once was. Ulamog is emblematic of plague, the blind bonds between parasite and host, and overabundance; he is creation and destruction wrapped together in unholy harmony.
 
==Brood lineage==
{{Main|Eldrazi/Lineages#Ulamog's Lineage}}
The Ulamog brood lineage is mostly characterized by dense masses of fleshy tentacles, multiple withered arms split at the elbow, and eyeless, bony plates in inhuman yet vaguely facial forms.<ref name="Lineages">{{DailyRef|savor-flavor/three-brood-lineages-2010-04-28|The Three Brood Lineages|[[Doug Beyer]]|April 28, 2010}}</ref>
 
===Spawn===
Ulamog's [[spawn]] grow quickly from tiny larvae to about the size of a wolf. Some have spiderlike legs and some have tentacles.
 
===Drones===
Ulamog's [[drone]]s can grow up to ten feet long. They fill specialized roles like Broodkeeper (birthing and tending spawn) and Hunger (draining the land).
 
===Eldrazi===
The ravenous and brutish Eldrazi of the Ulamog lineage lurch and shudder over the ground, adept at spreading disease and draining from the psyches as well as the life energy of their victims.
 
====Named====
[[Zhulodok]], ''Void Gorger'' is the only known Ulamog Brood Eldrazi to receive a proper name.<ref>{{EzTumblr|https://vorthosjay.tumblr.com/post/716509422423293952|title=There's more Eldrazi titans?|May 5, 2023}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
After their imprisonment by [[Ugin]], [[Sorin Markov]] and [[Nahiri]], Ulamog and the other two titans ([[Kozilek]] and [[Emrakul]]) were locked away from the planes. Millenia later, that was changed by the subsequential actions of [[Jace]], [[Chandra]], [[Sarkhan Vol]] and [[Nissa Revane]]. After their release, Ulamog was the most prominent titan on the surface of Zendikar. Its brood caused the Slaughter at [[Sea Gate]].
[[File:Ulamog Power.jpg|left|thumb|Ulamog's Destructive Abilities|220x220px]]
After their imprisonment by [[Ugin]], [[Sorin Markov]], and [[Nahiri]], Ulamog and the other two titans ([[Kozilek]] and [[Emrakul]]) were locked away from the planes.  
 
===First awakening===
[[File:Ulamog's destruction.jpg|thumb|267x267px|Destruction caused by Ulamog on the continent of Bala Ged]]
A few thousand years after the imprisonment of the Eldrazi by [[The Three]], the noxious creative force of Ulamog became an infection that took hold of the people who dared to live in [[Akoum]]'s mountains despite the tectonic instability of the region.<ref name="Art of Magic">{{WikiRef|author=[[James Wyatt]]|date=2016|title=The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Zendikar|page=48}}</ref> They became a sort of cult devoted to an imagined deity of the mountains, established a temple near the site of the prison, and began performing rituals inspired by their growing madness. The cultists avoided the notice of the increasingly reclusive [[Nahiri]] and over time and multiple generations, their rituals proved effective in loosening the bonds of the Eldrazi prison. Though the titans themselves still couldn't escape, teeming hordes of their broods sprang into existence. This swarming host devastated Zendikar.
 
During the rampage, the cultists transformed. Only twelve of them survived the initial wave of spawn emerging from the prison, but those twelve became the first [[vampire]] bloodchiefs, the progenitors of the vampire race.<ref name="Art of Magic"/> Whether they were originally [[human]], [[kor]], or a race of their own, they became something entirely new - and utterly enslaved to the will of Ulamog. The Eldrazi took the plane's vampires as a race of servants, adapting their very anatomy for servitude. Hooklike horns grew from the vampires' shoulders, convenient handles for the Eldrazi to dominate their slave race, and for millennia afterward, carnal symbols of the vampires' heritage of persecution. The vampires, forced to conspire in the campaign of destruction against their homeworld, had their identity and tribal memory erased forever.<ref>{{DailyRef|feature/eldrazi-arisen-2010-03-29-0|The Eldrazi Arisen|[[Doug Beyer]]|March 29, 2010}}</ref>
 
After Nahiri enforced the Eldrazi prison all on her own, no more broods came to life. She trusted the people of Zendikar to deal with them and left the plane. The vampires remained, now free of Ulamog's yoke.
 
===Release===
Millennia later, the subsequential actions of [[Jace Beleren]], [[Chandra Nalaar]], [[Sarkhan Vol]], and [[Nissa Revane]] freed the Eldrazi titans. After their release, Ulamog was the most prominent titan on the surface of Zendikar. Its brood caused the Slaughter at [[Sea Gate]].
 
===Battle for Zendikar===
[[File:Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre.jpg|left|thumb|377x377px|The Infinite Gyre]]
Six months after they had been released, both [[Emrakul]] and [[Kozilek]] vanished, only leaving a few [[spawn]] behind. Ulamog continued to blight and ravage Zendikar for two years, despite the efforts of [[Gideon Jura]], Nissa Revane, and the Zendikari. Jace and [[Jori En]] encountered Ulamog during their journey to the [[Eye of Ugin]]. They attempted to hide with some survivors who were later discovered to be cultists who still worshiped the titan through his fake "god" form of [[Ula]]. Escaping from their would-be captors, the two discovered that Ulamog was on a direct course for Sea Gate, and the remaining survivors hiding with Gideon. Jace dominated Jori En's mind to force her to leave him and return to warn the survivors of Ulamog's coming.
 
The Zendikar resistance army led by Gideon, Nissa, and [[Kiora]] assaulted and retook Sea Gate from Ulamog's brood. However, before they could celebrate, Jori En was seen running towards the planeswalkers, warning them. Ulamog was coming.
 
===Aligned hedron network===
[[File:Ulamog's Power.jpg|thumb|237x237px|Ulamog's Power]]
In a combined assault, Gideon and Kiora's armies attacked the Titan. Gideon then single-handedly wrestled with Ulamog, buying time for Nissa to unearth a massive number of [[hedron]]s buried around Sea Gate.<ref>{{DailyRef|magic-story/hedron-alignment-2015-11-18|Hedron Alignment|[[Kimberly J. Kreines]]|November 18, 2015}}</ref> Maneuvering the hedrons around the titan, Jace then triggered them, activating their latent magic and knocking the titan off balance while trapping him. Everything looked to be smooth sailing until [[Ob Nixilis]] arrived, knocked the hedrons out of alignment, and positioned himself between them. The demon planeswalker absorbed a massive amount of the hedron's magic which reignited his [[planeswalker's spark]] and allowed him to escape. Meanwhile, Ulamog was confused, battered, and weakened by the network's activation, still rather immobilized, still in reach of Gideon's armies, and appeared on the edge of defeat. Gideon ordered the joint army to attack and he leaped forward to attack the titan, but they were rebuffed by the arrival of a second titan: [[Kozilek]].
 
===The death of Ulamog===
After heavy initial losses, the [[Gatewatch]] performed an orchestrated attack on both titans, binding them again in a web of [[leyline]]s and burning them. This was the end of the material manifestation of Ulamog on Zendikar.<ref>{{DailyRef|magic-story/zendikars-last-stand-2016-02-17|Zendikar's Last Stand|[[Doug Beyer]]|February 17, 2016}}</ref>
 
==Trivia==
*Ulamog appears in mascot form in the trailers for [[Secret Lair Drop Series: December Superdrop 2022|Secret Lair: Just Add Milk]] and [[Secret Lair Drop Series: Winter Superdrop 2024|Secret Lair: Just Add Milk: Second Helpings]].<ref>{{YouTubeRef|ac3bGQZg6S8|Secret Lair: Just Add Milk!|channel=Magic: The Gathering|date=December 1, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{YouTubeRef|2NLjL6IQ9Bs|Just Add Milk: Second Helpings|channel=Magic: The Gathering|date=January 25, 2024}}</ref>
 
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:EldraziConcept4.jpg|Early concepts of the three Eldrazi titans by [[Aleksi Briclot]].
File:UlamogMascot.png|Ulamog as a cereal mascot for [[Secret Lair Drop Series: December Superdrop 2022|Secret Lair: Just Add Milk]].
File:UlamogCereal.png|Ulamog brand cereal in [[Secret Lair Drop Series: December Superdrop 2022|Secret Lair: Just Add Milk]].
File:Ulamog MTGA avatar MH3.png|Ulamog ''[[Magic: The Gathering Arena]]'' avatar released for ''[[Modern Horizons 3]]''.
</gallery>
 
==Story appearances==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Author !! Publishing date !! Set !! Setting (plane) !! Featuring
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/nissa-worldwaker-2014-06-25|Nissa, Worldwaker}} || [[Kelly Digges]] || 2014-06-25 || ''[[Magic 2015]]'' / Prologue to ''[[Battle for Zendikar]]'' || [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Nissa Revane]], Ulamog, Hamadi, Bahkut, Alira, [[Khali]], Sha'heel
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/the-lithomancer|The Lithomancer}} || [[Kelly Digges]] || 2014-10-29 || ''[[Commander 2014]]'' / Prologue to ''[[Battle for Zendikar]]''  || Unknown destroyed plane, [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Nahiri]], [[Sorin Markov]], Lian, [[Ugin]], [[Emrakul]], [[Kozilek]], Ulamog
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/believers-pilgrimage-2015-09-02|The Believers' Pilgrimage}} || [[Doug Beyer]] || 2015-09-02 ||''[[Battle for Zendikar]]'' || [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Jace Beleren]], [[Jori En]], Kendrin, [[Gideon Jura]], [[Nissa Revane]], [[Ayli]], Ulamog
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/hedron-alignment-2015-11-18|Hedron Alignment}} || [[Kimberly J. Kreines]] || 2015-11-18 || ''[[Battle for Zendikar]]'' || [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Kiora]], [[Gideon Jura]], [[Drana]], [[Tazri]], [[Nissa Revane]], [[Munda]], [[Jori En]], [[Ebi]], [[Jace Beleren]], [[Ashaya]], [[Seble]], Ulamog, [[Ob Nixilis]]
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/any-cost-2015-11-25|At Any Cost}} || [[Nik Davidson]] || 2015-11-25 || ''[[Battle for Zendikar]]'' || [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Ob Nixilis]], Ulamog, [[Ebi]]
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/promises-keep-2015-12-02|Promises to Keep}} || [[Doug Beyer]] || 2015-12-02 || ''[[Battle for Zendikar]]'' || [[Regatha]], [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Chandra Nalaar]], [[Gideon Jura]], [[Seble]], Ulamog, [[Jaya Ballard|Mother Luti]], [[Ob Nixilis]], [[Kozilek]]
|-
|{{ArticleArchive|magic-story/flames-2016-01-20|Up in Flames}} || [[Doug Beyer]] || 2016-01-20 || ''[[Battle for Zendikar]]'' || [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Chandra Nalaar]], [[Kozilek]], Ulamog, [[Tazri]], [[Gideon Jura]], [[Jace Beleren]], [[Nissa Revane]], [[Ob Nixilis]]
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/rise-kozilek-2015-12-09|The Rise of Kozilek}} || [[Kelly Digges]] || 2015-12-09 || ''[[Oath of the Gatewatch]]'' || [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Kiora]], Shen, Yesha, Tola, Inash, Runari, [[Lorthos]], Ulamog, [[Kozilek]]
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/retaliation-ob-nixilis-2015-12-30|Retaliation of Ob Nixilis}} || [[Kimberly J. Kreines]] & [[Nik Davidson]] || 2015-12-30 ||''[[Oath of the Gatewatch]]'' || [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Gideon Jura]], [[Nissa Revane]], Ulamog, [[Jace Beleren]], [[Ashaya]], [[Ob Nixilis]], [[Kozilek]]
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/blight-we-were-born-2016-01-13|The Blight We Were Born For}} || [[Ken Troop]] || 2016-01-13 ||''[[Oath of the Gatewatch]]'' || [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Tazri]], [[Gideon Jura]], Ulamog, [[Kozilek]], Mahir, Golamin, Rillem, Romoe, [[Vorik]], [[Munda]], [[Noyan Dar]], [[Drana]]
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/flames-2016-01-20|Up in Flames}} || [[Doug Beyer]] || 2016-01-20 ||''[[Oath of the Gatewatch]]'' || [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Chandra Nalaar]], [[Kozilek]], Ulamog, [[Tazri]], [[Ob Nixilis]], [[Jace Beleren]], [[Gideon Jura]], [[Nissa Revane]]
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/beneath-surface-2016-01-27|Beneath the Surface}} || [[Ari Levitch]] || 2016-01-27 ||''[[Oath of the Gatewatch]]'' || [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Jori En]], [[Lorthos]], [[Kozilek]], Ulamog, [[Kiora]]
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/oath-gatewatch-2016-02-03|Oath of the Gatewatch}} || [[James Wyatt]] || 2016-02-03 ||''[[Oath of the Gatewatch]]'' || [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[Kozilek]], Ulamog, [[the Gatewatch]] ([[Gideon Jura]], [[Jace Beleren]], [[Chandra Nalaar]] and [[Nissa Revane]])
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/zendikars-last-stand-2016-02-17|Zendikar's Last Stand}} || [[Doug Beyer]] || 2016-02-17 ||''[[Oath of the Gatewatch]]'' || [[Zendikar (plane)|Zendikar]] || [[The Gatewatch]], [[Kiora]], Ulamog, [[Kozilek]], [[Tazri]], [[Noyan Dar]], [[Drana]], [[Jori En]]
|-
| {{ArticleArchive|magic-story/stone-and-blood-2016-06-15|Stone and Blood}} || [[Kelly Digges]] || 2016-06-15 || ''[[Eldritch Moon]]'' || [[Innistrad (plane)|Innistrad]] || [[Nahiri]], [[Sorin Markov]], [[Avacyn]], [[Tenri]], Erem, Ulamog
|}


==In-game references==
==In-game references==
'''Represented in:'''
{{in-game
|cards=
*<c>Ulamog, the Defiler</c>
*<c>Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre</c>
*<c>Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre</c>
*<c>Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger</c>
*<c>Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger</c>
 
|associated=
'''Depicted in:'''
*<c>Pathrazer of Ulamog</c>
*<c>Pawn of Ulamog</c>
*<c>Spawnsire of Ulamog</c>
*<c>Ulamog's Crusher</c>
*<c>Ulamog's Despoiler</c>
*<c>Ulamog's Dreadsire</c>
*<c>Ulamog's Nullifier</c>
*<c>Ulamog's Reclaimer</c>
|art=
*<c>Aligned Hedron Network</c>
*<c>Aligned Hedron Network</c>
*<c>All is Dust</c>
*<c>All is Dust</c>
*<c>Bonds of Mortality</c>
*<c>Calamity of the Titans</c>
*<c>Call the Gatewatch</c>
*<c>Disaster Radius</c>
*<c>Disaster Radius</c>
*<c>Drowner of Truth</c>
*<c>Fall of the Titans</c>
*<c>Forsaken Monument</c>
*{{card|Mountain|Modern Horizons 3|#=307}}
*{{card|Plains|Modern Horizons 3|#=304}}
*<c>Rise of the Eldrazi</c>
*<c>Ruin in Their Wake</c>
*{{card|Ruin in Their Wake|Jumpstart 2022}}
*<c>Shrine of the Forsaken Gods</c>
*<c>Shrine of the Forsaken Gods</c>
*<c>Suffer the Past</c>
*<c>Suffer the Past</c>
*<c>Titan's Presence</c>
*<c>Titan's Presence</c>
 
*<c>Utter Insignificance</c>
'''Referenced in:'''
*<c>Witness the End</c>
|flavor=
*{{card|Amateur Auteur|Unstable|#=3d}}
*<c>Call the Scions</c>
*<c>Call the Scions</c>
*<c>Corpse Churn</c>
*<c>Idol of Oblivion</c>
*<c>Processor Assault</c>
*<c>Processor Assault</c>
*<c>Reaver Drone</c>
*<c>Tunneling Geopede</c>
*<c>Tunneling Geopede</c>
 
|title1=Ulamog's Brood
'''Spawn:'''
|custom1=
*<c>Awakening Zone</c>
*<c>Bane of Bala Ged</c>
*<c>Bane of Bala Ged</c>
*<c>Broodbirthing</c>
*<c>Barrage Tyrant</c>
*<c>Dreamstone Hedron</c>
*<c>Benthic Infiltrator</c>
*<c>Blight Herder</c>
*<c>Blisterpod</c>
*<c>Breaker of Armies</c>
*<c>Brood Butcher</c>
*<c>Brood Monitor</c>
*<c>Catacomb Sifter</c>
*<c>Conduit of Ruin</c>
*<c>Corrupted Shapeshifter</c>
*<c>Cryptic Cruiser</c>
*<c>Culling Drone</c>
*<c>Deathless Behemoth</c>
*<c>Desolation Twin</c>
*<c>Dominator Drone</c>
*<c>Drowner of Hope</c>
*<c>Dust Stalker</c>
*{{card|Eldrazi||TBFZ|#=1}} (Ulamog)
*<c>Eldrazi Devastator</c>
*{{card|Eldrazi Scion||TOGW|#=4}} (Ulamog)
*{{card|Eldrazi Scion||TOGW|#=5}} (Ulamog)
*{{card|Eldrazi Scion||TOGW|#=6}} (Ulamog)
*<c>Eldrazi Skyspawner</c>
*{{card|Eldrazi Spawn||TROE|#=1a}} (Ulamog)
*{{card|Eldrazi Spawn||TPCA|#=1}} (Ulamog)
*<c>Endless One</c>
*<c>Eyeless Watcher</c>
*<c>Eyeless Watcher</c>
*<c>Explosive Revelation</c>
*<c>Fathom Feeder</c>
*<c>Pathrazer of Ulamog</c>
*<c>Flayer Drone</c>
*<c>Pawn of Ulamog</c>
*<c>Forerunner of Slaughter</c>
*<c>Perish the Thought</c>
*<c>Incubator Drone</c>
*<c>Surreal Memoir</c>
*<c>Mind Raker</c>
*<c>Spawnsire of Ulamog</c>
*<c>Mist Intruder</c>
*<c title="Traitorous Instinct">Traitorous Instinct|Rise of the Eldrazi</c>
*<c>Murk Strider</c>
*<c>Ulamog's Crusher</c>
*<c>Nettle Drone</c>
*<c>Ulamog's Despoiler</c>
*<c>Oblivion Sower</c>
*<c>Ulamog's Nullifier</c>
*<c>Oracle of Dust</c>
*<c>Ulamog's Reclaimer</c>
*<c>Reaver Drone</c>
*<c>Virulent Swipe</c>
*<c>Ruination Guide</c>
 
*<c>Ruin Processor</c>
== Note on Eldrazi gender ==
*<c>Salvage Drone</c>
While the Eldrazi are genderless, lack apparent biological sex, and evidence no awareness of the concept of gender, the question of their gender, or at least proper pronouns, is a recurring topic among players.<ref>{{TumblrRef|author=[[Doug Beyer]]|URL=http://dougbeyermtg.tumblr.com/post/92479160904/|title=Actually, I have a question about Emrakul...|tumblr-title=A Voice for Vorthos|date=July 21 2014}}</ref><ref>{{TumblrRef|author=[[Mark Rosewater]]|URL=http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/129759225168/|title=Do Eldrazi have genders???|tumblr-title=Blogatog|date=September 24 2015}}</ref> Arguments for gendered pronouns rest largely on comparisons to the [[Zendikar|Zendikari]] deities they inspired, and on dimorphism between the broods.<ref>{{TumblrRef|author=[[Charlotte Sable]]|URL=http://magicjudge.tumblr.com/post/46314417301/|title=Gender of the Eldrazi|tumblr-title=Ask a Magic Judge|date=March 26 2013}}</ref><ref>{{TumblrRef|author=[[Mark Rosewater]]|URL=http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/92169514563/|title=FYI I believe most vorthoses...|tumblr-title=Blogatog|date=July 18 2014}}</ref> The issue has been further muddied by inconsistent pronoun use in official sources. In particular, Emrakul has been referenced by male, female, and neuter pronouns.<ref>{{DailyRef|mtg/daily/eventcoverage/ptphi11/featureSpectacular|Feature: Spectacular Tentacular|[[David Sutcliffe]]|September 2 2011}}</ref><ref>{{DailyRef|mtg/tcg/riseoftheeldrazi/flavor3|Eaters of Worlds|[[Wizards of the Coast]]}}</ref><ref>{{NewRef|reconstructed/modernchantress-2015-05-19|Modernchantress|[[Gavin Verhey]]|May 19 2015}}</ref> The most recent official sources on the matter are cards from ''[[Battle for Zendikar]]'' and a blog post by [[creative]] director [[Doug Beyer]], which agree on the use of male pronouns for Ulamog and [[Kozilek]] and female pronouns for [[Emrakul]].<ref><c>Processor Assault</c>. ''"Ulamog's processors trail behind him, converting ruined matter into furious energy."''</ref><ref><c>Vestige of Emrakul</c>. ''"Emrakul has not been seen in months. Though her brood's numbers have dwindled in her absence, each drone is still a deadly threat."''</ref><ref>{{TumblrRef|author=[[Doug Beyer]]|URL=http://dougbeyermtg.tumblr.com/post/129767401309/|title=So whats the deal the Eldrazi titans having genders now?|tumblr-title=A Voice for Vorthos|date=September 24 2015}}</ref>
*<c>Sifter of Skulls</c>
*<c>Silent Skimmer</c>
*<c>Sire of Stagnation</c>
*<c>Sky Scourer</c>
*<c>Sludge Crawler</c>
*<c>Smothering Abomination</c>
*<c>Thought Harvester</c>
*<c>Tide Drifter</c>
*<c>Ulalek, Fused Atrocity</c>
*<c>Vile Aggregate</c>
*<c>Void Attendant</c>
*<c>Void Winnower</c>
*<c>Wasteland Strangler</c>
*<c>Zhulodok, Void Gorger</c>
}}


==External links==
==External links==
*{{DailyRef|mtg/daily/stf/82|Gods and Monsters|[[Doug Beyer]]|Wednesday, March 17, 2010}}
*{{DailyRef|savor-flavor/gods-and-monsters-2010-03-17|Gods and Monsters|[[Doug Beyer]]|March 17, 2010}}
*{{DailyRef|mtg/daily/feature/84|The Eldrazi Arisen|[[Doug Beyer]]|Monday, March 29, 2010}}
*{{DailyRef|feature/eldrazi-arisen-2010-03-29-0|The Eldrazi Arisen|[[Doug Beyer]]|Monday, March 29, 2010}}
*{{DailyRef|mtg/daily/arcana/472|Know Your Spawn!|[[Kelly Digges]]|Know Your Spawn!}}
*{{DailyRef|feature/know-your-spawn-2010-06-15|Know Your Spawn!|[[Kelly Digges]]|Know Your Spawn!}}
* {{NewRef|uncharted-realms/nissa-worldwaker-2014-06-25|Nissa, Worldwaker|[[Adam Lee]]|June 25, 2014 }}
* {{DailyRef|uncharted-realms/nissa-worldwaker-2014-06-25|Nissa, Worldwaker|[[Adam Lee]]|June 25, 2014 }}


== References ==
== References ==
<references/>
{{reflist}}


[[Category:Zendikar]]
{{Zendikar|characters}}
[[Category:Characters]]
[[Category:Eldrazi]]
[[Category:Eldrazi]]
[[Category:Deceased]]

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Ulamog
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Race Eldrazi
Birthplace Blind Eternities
Lifetime Unknown
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Ulamog, the "Infinite Gyre" is one of the three Eldrazi titans and the monstrosity whose half-forgotten name came to be known as the Zendikari merfolk sea god Ula.

Description

Ulamog is the smallest and weakest of the three Eldrazi titans.[1][2] His head resembles a bony helmet but lacks eyes or expression. Most of his body has the color of exposed muscle and is covered with bony plates. He moves via a writhing mass of tentacles studded with bony spikes below the torso. His two arms split at the elbow and lead to four hands. A stench of rotting meat, decay, and sulfur surrounds him constantly, earning him the name "The Reeking Titan".

Ulamog is the Titan of Consumption, as he and his brood consume living and unliving matter alike. In doing so, they drain mana and vital energy from everything in the vicinity. His processors transform the consumed energy into spell-like effects that defy the understanding of Zendikari mages, creating plagues, deadly parasites, and endless teeming spawn. The processors leave distinctive white, chalky lattice-like structures in their wake. Everything, including water, is transformed into a white manaless husk of what it once was. Ulamog is emblematic of plague, the blind bonds between parasite and host, and overabundance; he is creation and destruction wrapped together in unholy harmony.

Brood lineage

Main article: Eldrazi/Lineages#Ulamog's Lineage

The Ulamog brood lineage is mostly characterized by dense masses of fleshy tentacles, multiple withered arms split at the elbow, and eyeless, bony plates in inhuman yet vaguely facial forms.[3]

Spawn

Ulamog's spawn grow quickly from tiny larvae to about the size of a wolf. Some have spiderlike legs and some have tentacles.

Drones

Ulamog's drones can grow up to ten feet long. They fill specialized roles like Broodkeeper (birthing and tending spawn) and Hunger (draining the land).

Eldrazi

The ravenous and brutish Eldrazi of the Ulamog lineage lurch and shudder over the ground, adept at spreading disease and draining from the psyches as well as the life energy of their victims.

Named

Zhulodok, Void Gorger is the only known Ulamog Brood Eldrazi to receive a proper name.[4]

History

Ulamog's Destructive Abilities

After their imprisonment by Ugin, Sorin Markov, and Nahiri, Ulamog and the other two titans (Kozilek and Emrakul) were locked away from the planes.

First awakening

Destruction caused by Ulamog on the continent of Bala Ged

A few thousand years after the imprisonment of the Eldrazi by The Three, the noxious creative force of Ulamog became an infection that took hold of the people who dared to live in Akoum's mountains despite the tectonic instability of the region.[5] They became a sort of cult devoted to an imagined deity of the mountains, established a temple near the site of the prison, and began performing rituals inspired by their growing madness. The cultists avoided the notice of the increasingly reclusive Nahiri and over time and multiple generations, their rituals proved effective in loosening the bonds of the Eldrazi prison. Though the titans themselves still couldn't escape, teeming hordes of their broods sprang into existence. This swarming host devastated Zendikar.

During the rampage, the cultists transformed. Only twelve of them survived the initial wave of spawn emerging from the prison, but those twelve became the first vampire bloodchiefs, the progenitors of the vampire race.[5] Whether they were originally human, kor, or a race of their own, they became something entirely new - and utterly enslaved to the will of Ulamog. The Eldrazi took the plane's vampires as a race of servants, adapting their very anatomy for servitude. Hooklike horns grew from the vampires' shoulders, convenient handles for the Eldrazi to dominate their slave race, and for millennia afterward, carnal symbols of the vampires' heritage of persecution. The vampires, forced to conspire in the campaign of destruction against their homeworld, had their identity and tribal memory erased forever.[6]

After Nahiri enforced the Eldrazi prison all on her own, no more broods came to life. She trusted the people of Zendikar to deal with them and left the plane. The vampires remained, now free of Ulamog's yoke.

Release

Millennia later, the subsequential actions of Jace Beleren, Chandra Nalaar, Sarkhan Vol, and Nissa Revane freed the Eldrazi titans. After their release, Ulamog was the most prominent titan on the surface of Zendikar. Its brood caused the Slaughter at Sea Gate.

Battle for Zendikar

The Infinite Gyre

Six months after they had been released, both Emrakul and Kozilek vanished, only leaving a few spawn behind. Ulamog continued to blight and ravage Zendikar for two years, despite the efforts of Gideon Jura, Nissa Revane, and the Zendikari. Jace and Jori En encountered Ulamog during their journey to the Eye of Ugin. They attempted to hide with some survivors who were later discovered to be cultists who still worshiped the titan through his fake "god" form of Ula. Escaping from their would-be captors, the two discovered that Ulamog was on a direct course for Sea Gate, and the remaining survivors hiding with Gideon. Jace dominated Jori En's mind to force her to leave him and return to warn the survivors of Ulamog's coming.

The Zendikar resistance army led by Gideon, Nissa, and Kiora assaulted and retook Sea Gate from Ulamog's brood. However, before they could celebrate, Jori En was seen running towards the planeswalkers, warning them. Ulamog was coming.

Aligned hedron network

Ulamog's Power

In a combined assault, Gideon and Kiora's armies attacked the Titan. Gideon then single-handedly wrestled with Ulamog, buying time for Nissa to unearth a massive number of hedrons buried around Sea Gate.[7] Maneuvering the hedrons around the titan, Jace then triggered them, activating their latent magic and knocking the titan off balance while trapping him. Everything looked to be smooth sailing until Ob Nixilis arrived, knocked the hedrons out of alignment, and positioned himself between them. The demon planeswalker absorbed a massive amount of the hedron's magic which reignited his planeswalker's spark and allowed him to escape. Meanwhile, Ulamog was confused, battered, and weakened by the network's activation, still rather immobilized, still in reach of Gideon's armies, and appeared on the edge of defeat. Gideon ordered the joint army to attack and he leaped forward to attack the titan, but they were rebuffed by the arrival of a second titan: Kozilek.

The death of Ulamog

After heavy initial losses, the Gatewatch performed an orchestrated attack on both titans, binding them again in a web of leylines and burning them. This was the end of the material manifestation of Ulamog on Zendikar.[8]

Trivia

Gallery

Story appearances

Title Author Publishing date Set Setting (plane) Featuring
Nissa, Worldwaker Kelly Digges 2014-06-25 Magic 2015 / Prologue to Battle for Zendikar Zendikar Nissa Revane, Ulamog, Hamadi, Bahkut, Alira, Khali, Sha'heel
The Lithomancer Kelly Digges 2014-10-29 Commander 2014 / Prologue to Battle for Zendikar Unknown destroyed plane, Zendikar Nahiri, Sorin Markov, Lian, Ugin, Emrakul, Kozilek, Ulamog
The Believers' Pilgrimage Doug Beyer 2015-09-02 Battle for Zendikar Zendikar Jace Beleren, Jori En, Kendrin, Gideon Jura, Nissa Revane, Ayli, Ulamog
Hedron Alignment Kimberly J. Kreines 2015-11-18 Battle for Zendikar Zendikar Kiora, Gideon Jura, Drana, Tazri, Nissa Revane, Munda, Jori En, Ebi, Jace Beleren, Ashaya, Seble, Ulamog, Ob Nixilis
At Any Cost Nik Davidson 2015-11-25 Battle for Zendikar Zendikar Ob Nixilis, Ulamog, Ebi
Promises to Keep Doug Beyer 2015-12-02 Battle for Zendikar Regatha, Zendikar Chandra Nalaar, Gideon Jura, Seble, Ulamog, Mother Luti, Ob Nixilis, Kozilek
Up in Flames Doug Beyer 2016-01-20 Battle for Zendikar Zendikar Chandra Nalaar, Kozilek, Ulamog, Tazri, Gideon Jura, Jace Beleren, Nissa Revane, Ob Nixilis
The Rise of Kozilek Kelly Digges 2015-12-09 Oath of the Gatewatch Zendikar Kiora, Shen, Yesha, Tola, Inash, Runari, Lorthos, Ulamog, Kozilek
Retaliation of Ob Nixilis Kimberly J. Kreines & Nik Davidson 2015-12-30 Oath of the Gatewatch Zendikar Gideon Jura, Nissa Revane, Ulamog, Jace Beleren, Ashaya, Ob Nixilis, Kozilek
The Blight We Were Born For Ken Troop 2016-01-13 Oath of the Gatewatch Zendikar Tazri, Gideon Jura, Ulamog, Kozilek, Mahir, Golamin, Rillem, Romoe, Vorik, Munda, Noyan Dar, Drana
Up in Flames Doug Beyer 2016-01-20 Oath of the Gatewatch Zendikar Chandra Nalaar, Kozilek, Ulamog, Tazri, Ob Nixilis, Jace Beleren, Gideon Jura, Nissa Revane
Beneath the Surface Ari Levitch 2016-01-27 Oath of the Gatewatch Zendikar Jori En, Lorthos, Kozilek, Ulamog, Kiora
Oath of the Gatewatch James Wyatt 2016-02-03 Oath of the Gatewatch Zendikar Kozilek, Ulamog, the Gatewatch (Gideon Jura, Jace Beleren, Chandra Nalaar and Nissa Revane)
Zendikar's Last Stand Doug Beyer 2016-02-17 Oath of the Gatewatch Zendikar The Gatewatch, Kiora, Ulamog, Kozilek, Tazri, Noyan Dar, Drana, Jori En
Stone and Blood Kelly Digges 2016-06-15 Eldritch Moon Innistrad Nahiri, Sorin Markov, Avacyn, Tenri, Erem, Ulamog

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External links

References

  1. ↑ James Wyatt (2016). "The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Zendikar, p. 20"
  2. ↑ Jay Annelli. (2022.) Magic: The Gathering - The Visual Guide, Wizards of the Coast. ISBN-13 978-0744061055.
  3. ↑ Doug Beyer (April 28, 2010). "The Three Brood Lineages". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  4. ↑ Jay Annelli (May 5, 2023). "There's more Eldrazi titans?". Ask Jay. Tumblr.
  5. ↑ a b James Wyatt (2016). "The Art of Magic: The Gathering - Zendikar, p. 48"
  6. ↑ Doug Beyer (March 29, 2010). "The Eldrazi Arisen". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  7. ↑ Kimberly J. Kreines (November 18, 2015). "Hedron Alignment". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  8. ↑ Doug Beyer (February 17, 2016). "Zendikar's Last Stand". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  9. ↑ Secret Lair: Just Add Milk! (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (December 1, 2022).
  10. ↑ Just Add Milk: Second Helpings (Video). Magic: The Gathering. YouTube (January 25, 2024).
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