Draconic Destruction (Starter Commander Decks) by cvest100

Format: Commander

Creator: cvest100

Commander: Atarka, World Render

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 19

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul Dragon tribal midrange stompy strategy piloted by Atarka, World Render. Its primary game plan is to accelerate mana during the opening turns, establish mid-sized flying Dragons, and cast Atarka to grant double strike across the entire flight. Flying threats hitting for doubled damage quickly decimate opposing life totals in combat. The list runs a high land count of 40 lands and about a dozen ramp pieces to support its steep mana curve. While its offensive ceiling in combat is punishing, the deck operates at traditional battlecruiser velocity. It features no infinite combos, fast mana, or nonland tutors, meaning it relies heavily on natural draws to access card advantage engines and haste enablers. Its heavy reliance on untapping with multiple expensive creatures leaves it vulnerable to well-timed board wipes and spot removal, but its sheer threat density ensures persistent pressure if opponents falter.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akoum Hellkite
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atarka Monument
  • 1 Atarka, World Render
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clan Defiance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crucible of Fire
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Demanding Dragon
  • 1 Draconic Disciple
  • 1 Dragon Mage
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonkin Berserker
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonmaster Outcast
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Dream Pillager
  • 1 Drumhunter
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Fires of Yavimaya
  • 1 Flameblast Dragon
  • 1 Foe-Razer Regent
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Siege
  • 1 Furnace Whelp
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Harbinger of the Hunt
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hoard-Smelter Dragon
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Hunter's Prowess
  • 1 Kazandu Refuge
  • 1 Loaming Shaman
  • 1 Magmaquake
  • 1 Mordant Dragon
  • 18 Mountain
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Primal Might
  • 1 Provoke the Trolls
  • 1 Rapacious Dragon
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Runehorn Hellkite
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker
  • 1 Savage Ventmaw
  • 1 Scourge of Valkas
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Shivan Oasis
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spit Flame
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Sweltering Suns
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Thunderbreak Regent
  • 1 Thundermaw Hellkite
  • 1 Timber Gorge
  • 1 Tyrant's Familiar
  • 1 Unleash Fury
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Verix Bladewing