Overview:

This Ur-Dragon deck leverages cost-reduction synergies and explosive dragon tribal synergies to overwhelm opponents through combat damage and combo potential. The core strategy focuses on deploying high-impact Dragons early via eminence discounts, generating massive value from attack triggers, and finishing with infinite combat loops or overwhelming board presence.

Primer:

Core Strategy:
Deploy dragons rapidly using The Ur-Dragon's eminence cost reduction and mana accelerants like Sneak Attack/Rivaz of the Claw. Attack triggers from The Ur-Dragon and Temur Ascendancy fuel card advantage while Aggravated Assault + Savage Ventmaw enables infinite combat phases. Secondary lines include Hellkite Tyrant artifact theft and Scourge of Valkas burn.

Mulligan Priorities:

• 3+ lands with color fixing (prioritize untapped sources)
• At least 1 ramp piece (Ignoble Hierarch, Sol Ring)
• Early-game enabler (Rhystic Study, Urza's Incubator)
  Reject hands without early ramp or color fixing.

Key Tips:

• Use Sneak Attack/Hellkite Courser to bypass commander tax
• Activate Cavern of Souls as Dragon-tribal to avoid counters
• Teferi's Protection protects against board wipes during alpha strikes
• Tutor priority: Aggravated Assault > Smothering Tithe > protection

Avoid Traps:

• Overextending into board wipes without protection
• Wasting removal on non-critical threats
• Keeping slow hands without acceleration

Weaknesses:

Critical:

• Heavy reliance on combat damage (folds to Propaganda/Ghostly Prison)
• Limited graveyard recursion for key combo pieces

Moderate:

• Vulnerable to stax pieces like Drannith Magistrate
• 3+ commander removals cripple cost reduction

Minor:

• Blood Moon effects partially mitigated by basic land tutors

Most Important Cards:

• Smothering Tithe
• Aggravated Assault
• Ancient Tomb
• Urza's Incubator
• Cavern of Souls
• Sneak Attack
• Rhystic Study
• Demonic Tutor
• Vampiric Tutor
• Terror of the Peaks

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 8/10

• Turn 3-4 dragons via cost reducers, Turn 5-6 infinite combats
• Ancient Tomb/Mana Crypt-tier acceleration enables explosive starts

Resilience: 7/10

• 6+ protection spells (Heroic Intervention, Stubborn Denial)
• Multiple recursion engines (Rivaz, Volrath's Stronghold)
• Vulnerable to back-to-back wipes

Consistency: 8/10

• 7 tutors + 10+ card draw engines
• Redundant cost reducers (Ur-Dragon, Ruby Medallion, Sarkhan, Soul Aflame)

Interaction: 7/10

• S-Tier: Mana Drain, An Offer You Can't Refuse
• A-Tier: Assassin's Trophy, Cyclonic Rift
• Limited stack interaction for noncreatures

Rating Justification:

The deck operates at cEDH-adjacent speeds (T5-6 deterministic wins) with high resilience through tutors and protection, but lacks the T2-3 win consistency of true cEDH builds. It exceeds optimized casual decks through combo density and free interaction but doesn't achieve the redundancy of tiered cEDH lists. Comparable to high-powered battlecruiser decks with cEDH staples.

Power level: 7.0 - 7.5