Stop for me, it's the Claw!

Commander / EDH* Dragons Mono-Red

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Mana (55)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Arena of Glory
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Dragon's Hoard
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Jeweled Amulet
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 34x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x The Irencrag
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Removal (5)

• 1x Blood Frenzy *list*
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Volcanic Spite
• 1x Warstorm Surge

Dragons (13)

• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Bogardan Hellkite
• 1x Changeling Berserker
• 1x Dragon Tyrant
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Moltensteel Dragon
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Shivan Hellkite
• 1x Spawn of Thraxes
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

Other (6)

• 1x Apocalypse
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Minion Reflector
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Tsabo's Web

Sac (6)

• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Erratic Portal
• 1x Fling
• 1x Rishadan Pawnshop
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x The Moment

Commander (1)

Control (10)

• 1x Act of Aggression
• 1x Besmirch
• 1x Frenzied Fugue
• 1x Grab the Reins
• 1x Harness by Force
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Mass Mutiny
• 1x Mob Rule
• 1x Opportunistic Dragon
• 1x Word of Seizing

Buff (4)

• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

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Other (1)

• 1x Endless Sands

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This deck can win consistently 2 turns after Zirilan is played, assuming he can stick. Obviously, this is a big "If". There are a few ways to speed it up, mainly haste enablers. Remember to claw during an opponent's end step to have 2 dragons out at once. Scourge of the Throne being one, generally, or Utvara Hellkite.

Occasionally the deck can combo out. Worldgorger Dragon is a prime example. Flameshadow Conjuring or Apocalypse are fun with him. I'm thinking of tuning the deck to be more dedicated combo, but I don't think I can get the speed necessary to force worldgorger through disruption, given the 5CMC commander (anyone know of a monored Silence?) so that will have to remain a sometimes-plan, useable only when people aren't holding up answers. This is also why I don't run more board wipes. If the deck can regularly do something, the meta will plan for it. Apocalypse always comes out of left field.

The standard gameplan remains dragon agro. Tutors are best but the mana accel allows some hardcasting if you need it. Past that, steal opposing beaters and answers, then sacrifice them. Threaten effects also untap Claw if you need more tutors.

Any dragon with an activated ability or ETB can be a wincon with worldgorger combo, as can Zirilan himself, but it requires some priority nonsense. Besides those, Dragon Tyrant, Scourge of the Throne, and Moltensteel Dragon are the best finishers. Hellkite Tyrant, Steel Hellkite and others are toolbox answers.

Cards on the chopping block for cuts:

• Utvara Hellkite. Assuming your game is 2-4 players, you rarely need to go long enough for this sort of value to matter. But it is quite useful in the 6mans.
• Shivan Hellkite is either redundant (I can kill any dozen ways when comboing) or a slow value piece (kill problems over a few turns). Kept in because sometimes you have a lot of mana and need to shoot things.
• Warstorm Surge. Slow value, 6CMC requiring hardcast. Do you see a pattern?

Date added	9 years
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.98
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon 6/6 R