The Scion of the Ur-Dragon by Benito9891

Format: Commander

Commander: Scion of the Ur-Dragon

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Commander deck is an evasive Dragon tribal and reanimator strategy piloted by Scion of the Ur-Dragon. The deck leverages Scion's activated ability as a versatile toolbox and entomb engine, searching specific Dragons directly into the graveyard to adapt Scion into situational answers or lethal combat threats at instant speed. The primary game plan focuses on ramping through the early turns with land-search spells and mana rocks, establishing all five colors by Turn 5 to cast Scion with activation mana held open. From Turn 6 onward, the deck presents must-answer board states either by copying devastating threats such as Silumgar, the Drifting Death and Crosis, the Purger, or by executing mass reanimation via Patriarch's Bidding and Bloodline Bidding. An army of large flying Dragons, accelerated by haste enablers like Dragonlord Kolaghan and Temur Ascendancy, overwhelms opposing life totals in short order, supported by secondary engines like Sneak Attack and Rivaz of the Claw.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ao, the Dawn Sky
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Bloomvine Regent // Claim Territory
  • 1 Breaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Broodmate Tyrant
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corroding Dragonstorm
  • 1 Crib Swap
  • 1 Crosis, the Purger
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Destructor Dragon
  • 1 Dirgur Island Dragon // Skimming Strike
  • 1 Disruptive Stormbrood // Petty Revenge
  • 1 Dragon Mage
  • 1 Dragon's Fire
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonlord Kolaghan
  • 1 Dragonmaster Outcast
  • 1 Dragonologist
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dromoka, the Eternal
  • 1 Encroaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explosive Getaway
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feral Deathgorger // Dusk Sight
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Guardian Scalelord
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Karakyk Guardian
  • 1 Kyodai, Soul of Kamigawa
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Parapet Thrasher
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Purging Stormbrood // Absorb Essence
  • 1 Radiant Summit
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Roiling Dragonstorm
  • 1 Ryusei, the Falling Star
  • 1 Sagu Wildling // Roost Seek
  • 1 Scavenger Regent // Exude Toxin
  • 1 Scion of the Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Silumgar, the Drifting Death
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spit Flame
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of the Dragon Queen
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 Teneb, the Harvester
  • 1 Twinmaw Stormbrood // Charring Bite
  • 1 Twisted Landscape
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wardscale Dragon
  • 1 Whirlwing Stormbrood // Dynamic Soar
  • 1 Yosei, the Morning Star
  • 1 Ziatora, the Incinerator