Atarka dragon deck by SapphireDragon

Format: Commander

Commander: Atarka, World Render

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 14

Deck overview

This is a Atarka, World Render Dragon tribal deck that converts large flying creatures into double-strike combat pressure. Its best supported plan is to ramp through Sol Ring, Cultivate, Harrow, Skyshroud Claim, or Dragon cost reducers, then deploy Dragon Tempest and Atarka, World Render. Dragon Tempest gives Atarka, World Render haste, allowing an immediate attack, while later Dragons add enter-the-battlefield damage, card draw, removal, or additional combat power. The deck has strong creature-based damage and reasonable permanent-based card advantage, but its curve is high and its access is mostly natural draw. It lacks tutors, countermagic, reliable protection from sweepers, and a compact deterministic finisher. Its credible pressure begins around turn 8 and normally needs several more combat steps to defeat the table. Removal and board wipes are useful, but they do not create a sustained lock or prevent opponents from rebuilding.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atarka, World Render
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Bogardan Hellkite
  • 1 Bower Passage
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clan Defiance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crucible of Fire
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Demanding Dragon
  • 1 Desert Were-Worm
  • 1 Draconic Disciple
  • 1 Dragon Mage
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Fire
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonmaster Outcast
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dragonstorm
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Fires of Yavimaya
  • 1 Flameblast Dragon
  • 1 Foe-Razer Regent
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ground Assault
  • 1 Harbinger of the Hunt
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hoard-Smelter Dragon
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Hunter's Prowess
  • 1 Jade Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Kazandu Refuge
  • 1 Magmaquake
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Molten Exhale
  • 1 Mordant Dragon
  • 17 Mountain
  • 1 Opportunistic Dragon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Primal Might
  • 1 Rapacious Dragon
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Root Snare
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Runehorn Hellkite
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savage Ventmaw
  • 1 Scourge of Valkas
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spit Flame
  • 1 Sweltering Suns
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Thrakkus the Butcher
  • 1 Thunderbreak Regent
  • 1 Thundermaw Hellkite
  • 1 Timber Gorge
  • 1 Tyrant's Familiar
  • 1 Unleash Fury
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Verix Bladewing