Tiamat and the Elders by Volen

Format: Commander

Commander: Tiamat

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Tiamat leads a five-color dragon toolbox. The primary plan is to ramp into Tiamat, then use her enter trigger to fetch the five Strixhaven elder dragons-Lorehold, Prismari, Quandrix, Silverquill, and Witherbloom-which alter every instant and sorcery: miracle, storm, cascade, casualty, and affinity. This enables explosive spell chains, often closing with Grapeshot or a swarm of dragon-triggered damage. Secondary paths are classic dragon beatdown via Klauth, Old Gnawbone, and Terror of the Peaks, plus Finale of Glory as a token finisher. The Ur-Dragon sits in the 99 as a hidden value engine, though the deck is built squarely around Tiamat's tutoring ability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Badlands Revival
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Estinien Varlineau
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finale of Glory
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hoarder's Greed
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kindred Boon
  • 1 Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lorehold, the Historian
  • 1 Majestic Genesis
  • 1 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prismari, the Inspiration
  • 1 Prismatic Omen
  • 1 Quandrix, the Proof
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reinterpret
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Return to Dust
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sarkhan Unbroken
  • 1 Sarkhan's Triumph
  • 1 Sarkhan, Fireblood
  • 1 Scaled Nurturer
  • 1 Scalelord Reckoner
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Selesnya Signet
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talent of the Telepath
  • 1 Terminus
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Tiamat
  • 1 Two-Headed Hellkite
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unite the Coalition
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vivi's Persistence
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Zagoth Triome