Ur Daddy by Sythas

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Dragon

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color Dragon tribal midrange strategy commanded by The Ur-Dragon. It leverages the commander's eminence ability to reduce the casting cost of all Dragon spells by one generic mana starting on turn one. The early game focuses on green land ramp and artifact acceleration to establish all five colors. By turn four, the deck deploys high-impact enablers such as Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm, Hellkite Courser, or Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient. In the mid-game, the deck creates overwhelming airborne boards that generate immense card advantage and mana through combat triggers. Payoffs like Atarka, World Render, Old Gnawbone, and Coat of Arms rapidly scale damage output to eliminate opponents across turns five through seven. Protection pieces like Heroic Intervention, Rhythm of the Wild, and Dragonlord Dromoka shield the board from countermagic and removal. While vulnerable to early aggro and exile sweepers, its dense redundancy and mass recursion allow it to dominate longer games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amareth, the Lustrous
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Bronze Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Gold Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ascend from Avernus
  • 1 Atarka, World Render
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Breaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Call the Spirit Dragons
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crucible of Fire
  • 1 Crucible of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Encroaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
  • 1 Korlessa, Scale Singer
  • 1 Lozhan, Dragons' Legacy
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
  • 1 Ojutai, Soul of Winter
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Ramos, Dragon Engine
  • 1 Renari, Merchant of Marvels
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rith, Liberated Primeval
  • 1 Roiling Dragonstorm
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sarkhan, Dragonsoul
  • 1 Scion of Draco
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sivitri, Dragon Master
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 The Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Thundermane Dragon
  • 1 Tiamat
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Two-Headed Hellkite
  • 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Ureni of the Unwritten
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wrathful Red Dragon