The Ur-Cheap by user9706461

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Dragon

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color Dragon tribal deck commanded by The Ur-Dragon. It leverages the commander's passive Eminence ability to reduce the cost of all Dragon spells from turn zero. The primary game plan focuses on deploying early ramp and cost reducers on Turns 1 through 3, establishing haste and card-draw engines like Temur Ascendancy and Dragon Tempest on Turn 4, and casting massive airborne threats on Turn 5. Cards such as Atarka, World Render, Thrakkus the Butcher, and Hellkite Courser rapidly multiply the board's offensive power, converting flying bodies into lethal combat steps and high-damage direct burn triggers from Scourge of Valkas. The deck maintains steady card flow by drawing cards whenever large creatures enter or attack. It recovers well from disruption due to deep mana resources and independent bomb creatures, aiming to close the game across two combat rotations around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Atarka, World Render
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Broodcaller Scourge
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dracogenesis
  • 1 Dragon Arch
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Fire
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Dragonlord Ojutai
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonmaster Outcast
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Frontier Siege
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Iymrith, Desert Doom
  • 1 Jade Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Korlessa, Scale Singer
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Lozhan, Dragons' Legacy
  • 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
  • 1 Morophon, the Boundless
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sarkhan's Triumph
  • 1 Sarkhan, Soul Aflame
  • 1 Scion of Draco
  • 1 Scourge of Valkas
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silumgar's Scorn
  • 1 Silumgar, the Drifting Death
  • 1 Sivitri, Dragon Master
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunscorch Regent
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temple of the Dragon Queen
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Thrakkus the Butcher
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Ureni of the Unwritten
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zurgo and Ojutai