the iron dragon by kitsunefox

Format: Commander

Commander: Ramos, Dragon Engine

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck leverages Ramos, Dragon Engine as both a scaling aerial threat and a massive mana battery to power out high-cost multicolor spells and Dragons. Early turns focus on developing a stable 5-color mana base through land fixing and artifacts like Chromatic Lantern. Once Ramos hits the battlefield, multicolored spells and counter enhancers like Branching Evolution rapidly load Ramos with +1/+1 counters. Removing five counters unleashes a burst of 10 mana ({W}{W}{U}{U}{B}{B}{R}{R}{G}{G}), which fuels overwhelming finishers such as Finale of Devastation, Terror of the Peaks, Progenitus, or Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm. While the deck features powerful individual cards and resilient backup lines through raw dragon beatdown, its high average mana curve and reliance on untapping with Ramos make it susceptible to early spot removal and aggressive tempos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aegis Turtle
  • 1 Ancient Gold Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bant Charm
  • 1 Bladewing the Risen
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Broodcaller Scourge
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Chromanticore
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Coalition Victory
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Corpsejack Menace
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crystalline Crawler
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Dragonstorm Globe
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fallaji Wayfarer
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 General Ferrous Rokiric
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jared Carthalion
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Maelstrom Archangel
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Naya Charm
  • 1 Nethroi, Apex of Death
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Progenitus
  • 1 Quandrix, the Proof
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Ramos, Dragon Engine
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Scion of Draco
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solar Array
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Tome of the Guildpact
  • 1 Two-Headed Hellkite
  • 1 Unite the Coalition
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza, Prince of Kroog
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xyris, the Writhing Storm
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth