ur dragon

Format: Commander

Commander: The Ur-Dragon

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is a classic five-color Dragon tribal battlecruiser strategy built around The Ur-Dragon. It leverages the commander's Eminence ability to reduce the casting cost of all Dragon spells from the command zone, smoothing out the deployment of expensive, high-impact flying threats. Early turns focus on establishing five colors of mana through basic land ramp spells, artifacts, and cost reducers. By Turn 5 and 6, the deck transitions into the midgame by resolving massive airborne payoffs such as Utvara Hellkite, Lathliss, Dragon Queen, and Savage Ventmaw. The deck overwhelms opponents through compounded combat damage and asymmetric sweepers like Crux of Fate. While highly resilient to single-target removal due to redundant threats, the deck is vulnerable to fast combo strategies and mass sweepers due to its heavy tap-land mana base and lack of instant-speed stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Armillary Sphere
  • 1 Bladewing the Risen
  • 1 Bone Dragon
  • 1 Boneyard Scourge
  • 1 Broodmate Dragon
  • 1 Chromium, the Mutable
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crosis, the Purger
  • 1 Crucible of Fire
  • 1 Crucible of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curse of Bounty
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Curse of Verbosity
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Deathbringer Regent
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dromoka, the Eternal
  • 1 Earthquake
  • 1 Eternal Dragon
  • 1 Fist of Suns
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Frontier Siege
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hellkite Charger
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Intet, the Dreamer
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
  • 1 Last One Standing
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Mirror of the Forebears
  • 1 Monastery Siege
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Monastery
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami
  • 1 Ojutai, Soul of Winter
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Palace Siege
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patient Rebuilding
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Ramos, Dragon Engine
  • 1 Recollect
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sarkhan, Dragonsoul
  • 1 Savage Lands
  • 1 Savage Ventmaw
  • 1 Scalelord Reckoner
  • 1 Scion of the Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Silumgar, the Drifting Death
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellbound Dragon
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Sunscorch Regent
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Taigam, Ojutai Master
  • 1 Teneb, the Harvester
  • 1 Territorial Hellkite
  • 1 The Ur-Dragon
  • 1 Thran Temporal Gateway
  • 1 Utvara Hellkite
  • 1 Vivid Crag
  • 1 Vivid Creek
  • 1 Vivid Grove
  • 1 Vivid Marsh
  • 1 Vivid Meadow
  • 1 Wasitora, Nekoru Queen
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble