Dragon Queen by MaddAlfie

Format: Commander

Commander: Tiamat

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a classic five-color Dragon tribal midrange strategy commanded by Tiamat. The game plan revolves around spending early turns developing a five-color mana base using 3-CMC mana rocks, cost reducers, and land search spells. On Turn 5, the deck casts Tiamat to search up to five premier Dragon cards directly from the library into hand. On Turn 6, the deck deploys compounding threats such as Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm, Terror of the Peaks, and Old Gnawbone, turning entering Dragons into lethal direct-damage triggers and massive Treasure generation. By Turn 7, the combination of token copies, damage doublers like Twinflame Tyrant, and combat finishers like Akroma's Will overwhelms all three opponents simultaneously. The deck boasts exceptional hand refill and recovery resilience thanks to Tiamat's five-card tutor trigger and mass recursion from Eerie Ultimatum, though it relies primarily on sorcery-speed execution and high-impact asymmetric sweepers for defense.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bloomvine Regent // Claim Territory
  • 1 Call the Spirit Dragons
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Dracogenesis
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonmaster Outcast
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dragonstorm Globe
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jade Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Korlessa, Scale Singer
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Lie in Wait
  • 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Magmaquake
  • 1 Map the Frontier
  • 1 Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
  • 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Jasper
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Omen
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rith, Liberated Primeval
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sarkhan, Soul Aflame
  • 1 Scalelord Reckoner
  • 1 Show and Tell
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stormscale Scion
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Temple of the Dragon Queen
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Ur-Dragon
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Tiamat
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Ureni of the Unwritten
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wrathful Red Dragon