Ur-Dragon V3.0 by ubercaffeinated

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Dragon

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power 5-color Dragon tribal deck helmed by The Ur-Dragon. It leverages the commander's eminence ability to reduce the cost of all Dragon spells from the start of the game, combining this discount with fast artifact mana, efficient mana dorks, and land ramp. The deck aims to establish rapid mana acceleration by Turn 3, deploying massive Dragon threats or cheat enablers like Hellkite Courser, Sneak Attack, and Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm on Turn 4. The primary win condition is an infinite combat loop powered by Savage Ventmaw and Aggravated Assault, generating unbounded mana and attacks to eliminate all three opponents on Turn 5. Backed by potent draw engines like Rhystic Study and The One Ring, flexible creature recursion, and protection spells like Silence and Veil of Summer, the deck consistently threatens game-ending combat steps and direct damage while easily pivoting to value-based Dragon beatdown if interrupted.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bladewing the Risen
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Deceptive Frostkite
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Savage Ventmaw
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shiko, Paragon of the Way
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tiamat
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Two-Headed Hellkite
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Ureni of the Unwritten
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills