2- The Progenitor by Dalmera

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Dragon

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a classic five-color Dragon Tribal battlecruiser strategy piloted by The Ur-Dragon. The primary game plan focuses on utilizing early land ramp and cost reducers to deploy high-power Dragons ahead of curve, taking advantage of the commander's Eminence ability to discount every Dragon spell. Once established around Turn 4, the deck deploys massive threats like Utvara Hellkite, Lathliss, Dragon Queen, and Dragon Broodmother alongside power-based card advantage engines such as Elemental Bond and Garruk's Uprising. Combat pressure escalates rapidly on Turn 5, leveraging haste enablers like Dragon Tempest and Rhythm of the Wild or cheating The Ur-Dragon into play with Hellkite Courser to draw cards and overwhelm opponents in the air. While the deck boasts high redundancy and potent asymmetric sweepers like Crux of Fate, its reliance on combat damage over multiple turn cycles and light countermagic leaves it vulnerable to opposing board wipes and fast combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Artifact Mutation
  • 1 Atarka, World Render
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Broodmate Dragon
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromium, the Mutable
  • 1 Colossal Majesty
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crosis, the Purger
  • 1 Crucible of Fire
  • 1 Crucible of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Destructive Revelry
  • 1 Draconic Roar
  • 1 Dragon Broodmother
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Fire
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Earthquake
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fault Line
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Lurking Predators
  • 1 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Palladia-Mors, the Ruiner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Piru, the Volatile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Sarkhan, Fireblood
  • 1 Savage Twister
  • 1 Savage Ventmaw
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scion of the Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Scourge of Valkas
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul's Majesty
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tiamat
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Utvara Hellkite
  • 1 Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills