The Ur-Dragon by user2768059

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Dragon

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a classic five-color Dragon tribal stompy deck commanded by The Ur-Dragon. It leverages Eminence to discount all Dragon spells by {1} from the command zone, allowing it to curve into massive flying threats ahead of schedule. The early game focuses on establishing five-color fixing and acceleration through mana dorks, rocks, and cost reducers like Dragonspeaker Shaman and Sarkhan, Soul Aflame. In the mid-game (Turns 4-5), it deploys explosive value engines such as Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm, Temur Ascendancy, or Tiamat to fill the hand and double board presence. By Turn 6, it converts overwhelming aerial power into a lethal clock with Atarka, World Render, Terror of the Peaks, and Utvara Hellkite, closing the game in a single subsequent attack cycle. Asymmetric board wipes like Crux of Fate and protective spells like Heroic Intervention and Teferi's Protection safeguard its massive board state.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atarka, World Render
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bladewing the Risen
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desolation of Smaug
  • 1 Dragon Arch
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Dragonlord Silumgar
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dragonstorm Globe
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Farseek
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hellkite Charger
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Ojutai, Soul of Winter
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Ramos, Dragon Engine
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sarkhan, Soul Aflame
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Savage Ventmaw
  • 1 Scalelord Reckoner
  • 1 Scion of the Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Scourge of Valkas
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silumgar, the Drifting Death
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunscorch Regent
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Tiamat
  • 1 Utvara Hellkite