The Dragon's Rage by Brettlpb

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Dragon

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated five-color Dragon tribal build commanded by The Ur-Dragon. The primary strategy leverages passive Eminence cost reduction alongside dense mana dorks, land ramp, and artifacts to deploy expensive, game-ending Dragons multiple turns ahead of curve. The deck establishes an operational engine around Turn 4 using enablers like Temur Ascendancy, Dragon Tempest, or Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm, followed by a critical onset on Turn 5 with explosive threats such as Atarka, World Render, Old Gnawbone, or Terror of the Peaks. Damage scales rapidly through doubled combat power, extra combats, and direct damage triggers, closing out the table by Turn 7. While the deck boasts immense late-game inevitability, card advantage, and asymmetric board wipes in Crux of Fate, it commits heavily to the battlefield and lacks stack-based countermagic, making it reliant on aggressive tempo and haste to outrace sweepers and fast combo decks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Atarka, World Render
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Become the Avalanche
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Call the Spirit Dragons
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Deceptive Frostkite
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Desolation of Smaug
  • 1 Dracogenesis
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonstorm Globe
  • 1 Encroaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Firdoch Core
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Goldlust Triad
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kaalia of the Vast
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Korlessa, Scale Singer
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Marang River Regent // Coil and Catch
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Monstrous Vortex
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nogi, Draco-Zealot
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sarkhan, Soul Aflame
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Selvala's Stampede
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Thunderbreak Regent
  • 1 Thundermane Dragon
  • 1 Tiamat
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Ureni of the Unwritten
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whirlwing Stormbrood // Dynamic Soar
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wrathful Red Dragon