Overview:

This Ur-Dragon deck focuses on leveraging cost reduction and tribal synergy to flood the board with high-impact dragons, using combat damage as its primary win condition. It combines efficient ramp, tutors, and protection to enable explosive turns, with secondary combo potential through Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient/Hellkite Charger loops and Terror of the Peaks damage triggers. While lacking infinite combos, it achieves overwhelming board states quickly in a focused midrange strategy.

Primer:

Core Strategy:
Deploy cost-reduced dragons (Morophon, the Boundless, Urza's Incubator) to establish aerial dominance. Key phases:

1. Ramp & Setup: Early-game focuses on land acceleration (fetch lands, Cultivate) and cost reducers to enable T4-5 dragon drops.
2. Value Engine Activation: Attack triggers from The Ur-Dragon and Garruk's Uprising generate card advantage to snowball threats.
3. Combat Overkill: Use Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient mana for extra combats (Hellkite Charger) or amplify damage via Terror of the Peaks/Utvara Hellkite token swarms.

Mulligan Priorities:

• 3+ lands with color fixing
• 1-2 ramp spells (Birds of Paradise, Fellwar Stone)
• At least 1 cost reducer or early dragon (Dragonmaster Outcast)
  Reject hands without early acceleration or color sources.

Key Tips:

• Sequence dragons to maximize Terror of the Peaks triggers (cast cheaper dragons first)
• Use Hellkite Courser to cheat Ur-Dragon into play for immediate value
• Protect critical pieces with Heroic Intervention before board wipes

Avoid Traps:

• Overextending into symmetrical wipes (Damnation)
• Keeping slow hands with multiple enters-tapped lands
• Casting Ur-Dragon without haste enablers unless protected

Weaknesses:

Critical:

• Minimal graveyard recursion for key dragons
• Relies on 3+ mana rocks that are vulnerable to artifact hate

Moderate:

• Slow recovery from board wipes
• Limited instant-speed interaction for resolved threats

Minor:

• Tapped dual lands slightly slow early turns

Most Important Cards:

• Morophon, the Boundless
• Urza's Incubator
• Terror of the Peaks
• Utvara Hellkite
• Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
• Hellkite Charger
• Demonic Tutor
• Worldly Tutor
• Smothering Tithe
• Rhystic Study

Attribute Ratings:

Speed: 7/10
Cost reduction enables T3-4 dragons (e.g., Savage Ventmaw on T3 with perfect ramp), with T6-7 kills via combat loops. Fetch lands and Sol Ring accelerate early plays, but tapped duals slightly delay consistency.

Resilience: 6/10
Protected by Teferi's Protection and counterspells, but overcommits to board states vulnerable to wipes. Limited recursion beyond Hoarding Broodlord keeps recovery inconsistent.

Consistency: 7/10
12 tutors/filtering effects (Demonic Tutor, Dragon's Hoard) and redundant cost reducers ensure dragon deployment. Draw engines like The Ur-Dragon attacks maintain momentum.

Interaction: 6/10
A-tier counters (Mana Drain, Swan Song) and targeted removal (Dragon's Fire), but lacks free interaction. Relies on Cyclonic Rift as primary reset button.

Rating Justification:

The deck sits between "Focused" (6.0) and "Optimized" (6.5) on the rubric. It achieves T7-8 wins reliably through combat and Klauth mana loops (6.0 benchmark) but lacks the fast mana and compact infinite combos of higher tiers. While interaction and protection are above precon levels, reliance on creature-based strategies keeps it below cEDH viability.

Power level: 6.0 - 6.5