Overview:

This Temur Dragons deck leverages Eshki's scaling triggers to generate card advantage and burn damage while deploying high-power Dragons. While lacking infinite combos, it focuses on synergistic creature casting with moderate ramp and protection. Key strengths include tribal synergy and Eshki's snowball potential, but it struggles against heavy interaction and lacks fast mana.

Primer:

Core Strategy: Cast Dragons (primarily 4+ power) to trigger Eshki's card draw and burn while building an evasive board. Key phases:

1. Ramp Setup: Use land-fetch spells (Farseek, Migration Path) and artifact ramp to reach 5+ mana by T4-5.
2. Dragon Deployment: Cast cost-reduced Dragons (via Dragonlord's Servant, Sarkhan, Soul Aflame) to trigger Eshki's counters/draw and enable tribal payoffs like Dragon Tempest.
3. Closing: Overwhelm with flying threats enhanced by Atarka, World Render's double strike or burn via Eshki's 6+ power triggers.

Mulligan Priorities:

• Keep hands with 3 lands + 1-2 ramp pieces.
• Prioritize early cost reducers over high-CMC Dragons.
• Avoid hands without green mana sources.

Key Tips:

• Sequence Dragons to maximize Eshki's triggers: Cast 4-power creatures first for card draw before deploying 6+ power finishers.
• Use Hellkite Courser to cheat Eshki back post-removal while triggering ETB effects.
• Preserve interaction (Beast Within, Reality Shift) for critical stax pieces or combo enablers.

Avoid Traps:

• Overextending into board wipes without Thunderbreak Regent protection.
• Holding Dragons for "perfect" turns - leverage Eshki's scaling even with partial triggers.
• Using Blasphemous Act prematurely before establishing Dragon token generators.

Weaknesses:

Critical:

• Heavy reliance on 4+ CMC creatures makes it vulnerable to early stax (Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, Frozen Aether).
• Limited protection for Eshki beyond Dragon's Hoard recursion.

Moderate:

• Slow recovery from board wipes despite Leyline Tyrant mana banking.
• No combo finishers to bypass stalled boards.

Minor:

• Weak to land destruction due to tapped duals, mitigated by basic land fetch.

Most Important Cards:

• Dragon Tempest
• Lathliss, Dragon Queen
• Temur Ascendancy
• Scourge of the Throne
• Atarka, World Render
• Stormbreath Dragon
• Sarkhan, Soul Aflame
• Blasphemous Act
• Thunderbreak Regent
• Sol Ring

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 5/10

• Goldfishes T6-8 wins through combat damage. Cost reducers enable T5 6-power Dragons, but lacks explosive mana (no Jeska's Will/Mana Crypt).

Resilience: 4/10

• Limited recursion (Haven of the Spirit Dragon only) and 3x targeted protection spells. Folds to 2+ early removals on Eshki/enablers.

Consistency: 6/10

• 10x card draw engines and 8x ramp pieces provide steady resources, but only 2x tutors (Selvala's Stampede, Will of the Temur).

Interaction: 5/10

• 6x targeted removal and 2x board wipes at sorcery speed. No counterspells beyond Rapid Hybridization pseudo-protection.

Rating Justification:

This deck sits between Focused Casual (4.5) and Optimized Casual (5.0). It exceeds precon-level synergy with tribal payoffs and coherent ramp but lacks:

• cEDH-speed mana (no Ancient Tomb/Jeweled Lotus)
• Combo finishers
• Interaction density

Compared to T8-10 optimized decks, it's 1-2 turns slower and less resilient to disruption. However, its Dragon density and Eshki scaling outperform typical upgraded precons.

Power level: 4.5 - 5.0