
The Ur-Dragon
The Ur-Dragon Commander Deck
The Ur-Dragon five-color Dragon tribal deck built around repeated attacks: the commander discounts Dragon spells, and every Dragon attack draws cards and drops a permanent from hand straight onto the battlefield, so each combat refuels and expands the board. The deck ramps hard into big flying Dragons with cost reducers and treasure makers, then multiplies combat steps so attack triggers, treasure generation and card draw fire again and again within a single turn. How it wins: It swings with a flying Dragon army through extra combat phases, and the mana-generating Dragons let Aggravated Assault or Hellkite Charger loop into effectively unlimited combats and lethal damage. Key roles: - Dragon cost cheating: Reduces or skips Dragon costs and fixes all five colors so huge Dragons land early and in multiples, alongside The Ur-Dragon's eminence discount (Dragonspeaker Shaman, Urza's Incubator, Morophon, the Boundless) - Attack-trigger payoffs: Dragons that generate mana, treasure, tokens or cards whenever they attack or connect, so every combat produces more resources than it costs (Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient, Old Gnawbone, Utvara Hellkite) - Extra combat engine: Untaps the team and adds combat phases, and when paired with mana-producing attackers it loops into near-infinite combats (Aggravated Assault, Hellkite Charger, Ancient Copper Dragon) - Combat amplifiers: Haste, trample, double strike and doubled damage make each extra combat lethal immediately rather than over several turns (Atarka, World Render, Twinflame Tyrant, Temur Ascendancy) - Token multiplication and ETB burn: Copies and extra Dragon tokens, with enter-the-battlefield damage triggers that punish opponents as the board grows, including the Ancient Gold Dragon burn combo (Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm, Terror of the Peaks, Dragon Tempest) - Dragon tutoring and recursion: Finds or rebuys key Dragons to assemble the engine and recover from removal (Tiamat, Ureni of the Unwritten, Rivaz of the Claw)
The Ur-Dragon decklist
- Arcane Signet
- Fellwar Stone
- Lightning Greaves
- Mox Jasper
- Sol Ring
- The Great Henge
- The One Ring
- Urza's Incubator
- Ancient Tomb
- Arid Mesa
- Blood Crypt
- Bloodstained Mire
- Breeding Pool
- Cavern of Souls
- City of Brass
- Command Tower
- Exotic Orchard
- Flooded Strand
- Forest
- Godless Shrine
- Haven of the Spirit Dragon
- Island
- Ketria Triome
- Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
- Mana Confluence
- Marsh Flats
- Misty Rainforest
- 2× Mountain
- Overgrown Tomb
- Path of Ancestry
- Plains
- Polluted Delta
- Reflecting Pool
- Sacred Foundry
- Scalding Tarn
- Steam Vents
- Stomping Ground
- Swamp
- Temple Garden
- Verdant Catacombs
- Watery Grave
- Windswept Heath
- Wooded Foothills
- Ancient Copper Dragon
- Ancient Gold Dragon
- Ancient Silver Dragon
- Atarka, World Render
- Balefire Dragon
- Birds of Paradise
- Bloom Tender
- Dragonlord Dromoka
- Dragonspeaker Shaman
- Goldspan Dragon
- Hellkite Charger
- Hellkite Courser
- Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen
- Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
- Morophon, the Boundless
- Old Gnawbone
- Rivaz of the Claw
- Roaming Throne
- Sarkhan, Soul Aflame
- Savage Ventmaw
- Scourge of Valkas
- Smaug the Magnificent
- Smaug, Wicked Worm
- Terror of the Peaks
- Tiamat
- Twinflame Tyrant
- Ureni of the Unwritten
- Utvara Hellkite
- Zurgo and Ojutai
- Aggravated Assault
- Call the Spirit Dragons
- Dracogenesis
- Dragon Tempest
- Garruk's Uprising
- Rhystic Study
- Rhythm of the Wild
- Smothering Tithe
- Temur Ascendancy
- Assassin's Trophy
- Cyclonic Rift
- Enlightened Tutor
- Heroic Intervention
- Mana Drain
- Swords to Plowshares
- Teferi's Protection
- Vampiric Tutor
- Worldly Tutor
- Crux of Fate
- Demonic Tutor
- Farseek
- Jeska's Will
- Nature's Lore
- Skyshroud Claim
- Swamp