Ur dragon by user8675909

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Dragon

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color Dragon Tribal Stompy archetype led by The Ur-Dragon. The game plan leverages the commander's Eminence ability to reduce the cost of all Dragon spells by one generic mana from the command zone. During the early turns, the deck fixes colors and accelerates mana using land-ramp sorceries, mana rocks, and cost reducers like Dragonspeaker Shaman. By Turns 4 and 5, it transitions into deploying massive flying threats that generate value through enters-the-battlefield triggers, combat bonuses, and draw engines like Temur Ascendancy and Elemental Bond. Payoffs such as Utvara Hellkite, Atarka, World Render, Terror of the Peaks, and Hellkite Courser rapidly compound damage across the table. While the deck invests heavily in tap-out sequencing, its high threat density, evasive combat multipliers, and mass graveyard recursion ensure strong and resilient pressure throughout the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amareth, the Lustrous
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atarka, World Render
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bladewing the Risen
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crucible of Fire
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathbringer Regent
  • 1 Dragon Broodmother
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonmaster Outcast
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dromoka, the Eternal
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lurking Predators
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami
  • 1 Ojutai, Soul of Winter
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Ramos, Dragon Engine
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sarkhan the Masterless
  • 1 Sarkhan's Triumph
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Scalelord Reckoner
  • 1 Scion of Draco
  • 1 Scion of the Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Scourge of Valkas
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Silumgar, the Drifting Death
  • 1 Skyline Despot
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvia Brightspear
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Utvara Hellkite
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Wasitora, Nekoru Queen
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Zendikar Resurgent