One More Red Nightmare

Commander / EDH Aggro Combo Dragons Mono-Red Tribal

Ruffigan

Dragons (18)

• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Bogardan Hellkite
• 1x Changeling Berserker
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Dragon Tyrant
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Hoarding Dragon
• 1x Kilnmouth Dragon
• 1x Knollspine Dragon
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Spawn of Thraxes
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Thunder Dragon
• 1x Thundermaw Hellkite
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

Augmentations (12)

• 1x Fervor
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Puppet Strings
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Mana (17)

• 1x Braid of Fire
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gauntlet of Might
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Inspiring Statuary
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Land (38)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 28x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Commander (1)

Utility (13)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Culling Dais
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Voltaic Key
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Wipe (4)

• 1x Apocalypse
• 1x Decree of Annihilation
• 1x Jokulhaups
• 1x Vandalblast

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Sideboard

Other (5)

• 1x Blood Moon
• 1x Hoard-Smelter Dragon
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Ruination

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Maybeboard

Other (4)

• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Final Fortune

Augmentations (3)

• 1x Mark of Fury
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Racecourse Fury

Utility (4)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Inventors' Fair

Dragons (3)

• 1x Lathliss, Dragon Queen
• 1x Opportunistic Dragon
• 1x Terror of Mount Velus

Mana (4)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Mana Geyser
• 1x Thran Dynamo

Land (1)

• 1x Inventors' Fair

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Mono-red dragons with Zirilan of the Claw

Patient plays and big dragons are the name of the game here. The goal is pretty straight forward: create a battlestation for Zirilan of the Claw and power out dragons to deal massive damage or combo out. In practice, this means playing cautiously and biding your time until you can pull off a power play. This is possible partially due to erratum on Zirilan:

"Search your library for a Dragon permanent card and put that card onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library. That Dragon gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step."

This allows you to tutor for a dragon at the end of the player on your right's turn and again during your turn (and I'm sure you can imagine the hi-jinks if you had a Rings of Brighthearth or similar in play). Using this knowledge you can plan the ETB's of your dragons and respond to threats on your opponents' turns. The deck is not looking to play the long game so it is ok if the dragons are exiled but there is a small suite of recovery tools such as Sundial of the Infinite to remove the exile trigger, Culling Dais to set up for Feldon of the Third Path, or Changeling Berserker as a replacement.

Balefire Dragon: Its use is pretty obvious: if they don't have flying blockers it will boardwipe them.


Changeling Berserker: This creature has two purposes: it can be tutored to save Zirilan (or some other relevant dragon) once or can be used in conjunction with Worldgorger Dragon. Check the Combos and Synergy section for a list of combos.


Dragon Mage: When you're running low on cards or have a bad hand this gnarly guy can get you a new hand.


Dragon Tyrant: This dragon is a win condition. Combined with the mana doublers it can reliably deal lethal combat damage to a player and (hopefully) recycled at EoT.


Hellkite Charger: Its main use is to gain unlimited combat phases with Sword of Feast and Famine but it even granting one extra combat phase can be enough to turn the game sometimes.


Hellkite Tyrant: Can be used to pull the rug out from underneath greedy opponents or to steal mana rocks.


Hoarding Dragon: Can be tutored to grab Sword of Feast and Famine or other situational artifacts.


Kilnmouth Dragon: This dragon can be used to kill relevant creatures and gives you something to do if your hand is full of dragons.


Knollspine Dragon: When your hand is bad or running low this dragon will graciously fill it back up. It does require some planning, though. The most common times to tutor it would be when an opponent hits someone, after you've attacked, or after using Spawn of Thraxes or Kilnmouth Dragon.


Scourge of the Throne: Grants one extra combat step, allowing you to deal massive damage.


Scourge of Valkas: Used for comboing. Especially good with Utvara Hellkite.


Spawn of Thraxes: Has multiple uses. Its main use is killing relevant creatures but it can also be used to draw cards with Knollspine Dragon or comboing with Worldgorger Dragon.


Steel Hellkite: Our main way of dealing with non-creature, non-land permanents. It can also kill token armies.


Thunder Dragon: Used for carpet bombing small creatures.


Thundermaw Hellkite: Taps flying blockers so you can get damage through.


Utvara Hellkite: It can be used for comboing but mostly its used to beat face. If you have a haste enabler you can grab Scourge of the Throne or Scourge of Valkas for a lot of damage.


Worldgorger Dragon: The scariest dragon ever printed, Worldgorger Dragon strikes confusion in the heads of novices and dread in the hearts of veterans. It is the crux of this deck, enabling a majority of the combos, but requires extreme caution when playing; if you misplay, you could exile all of your permanents permanently. Refer to the Combos and Synergy section for more information

Infinite combat steps using Sword of Feast and Famine with Aggravated Assault or Hellkite Charger


End of opponent's turn put Scourge of Valkas into play (1 Damage). During your turn put Utvara Hellkite into play (2 Damage). Swing with both, putting two 6/6 dragon tokens into play (3 Damage and 4 Damage), and then combat damage (10 Damage). 20 damage total, assuming there are no untapping/copying shenanigans
Tutor for Worldgorger Dragon while Jokulhaups, Apocalypse, or Decree of Annihilation is on the stack


Using Illusionist's Bracers, Thousand-Year Elixir, Magewright's Stone, Puppet Strings, or Rings of Brighthearth tutor for Changeling Berserker and then Worldgorger Dragon and then tap out. Worldgorger resolves first, exiling all of your permanents, and then Changeling Berserker champions it, returning your permanents. You can use this to reuse your ETB effects or go infinite with Erratic Portal


With a passive haste enabler and Zirilan of the Claw in play put out Worldgorger Dragon. While its ability is on the stack make a copy of it with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker or Flameshadow Conjuring. The token resolves first, exiling all of your permanents, then Worldgorger Dragon resolves, exiling the token and returning your permanents. This creates a loop that ends with only Worldgorger Dragon in play, but before that happens you may trigger your ETB effects an arbitrary number of times or create any amount of mana. If you're unable to win the game for some reason you can use Changeling Berserker to end the loop (if it leaves play the Worldgorger Dragon will return)

There are a few cards that are not in the deck that I feel I should point out:

Conjurer's Closet: This card is too expensive for what it does and it is limited to my end step.


Crucible of Fire: I'm trying to win between turns 6 and 9 and the slot Crucible of Fire would take is better served as a mana rock to go off faster


Dragonspeaker Shaman: The deck is all in on tutoring and has Sneak Attack and Quicksilver Amulet to cheat dragons from my hand into play. It is also useful to have dragons in hand to utilize Kilnmouth Dragon so this ends up being a dead draw a majority of the time. Same goes for Dragonlord's Servant


Moltensteel Dragon: This dragon would be much better in a French build. As it is, it acts like a second Dragon Tyrant but in multiplayer it leaves you extremely vulnerable if you use it to its full potential.


Scourge of Kher Ridges: Effective, but mana intensive. It's really only useful if we've already used Thunder Dragon, and even then there is probably something else that is more practical to do with the mana. It will also kill Zirilan if I activate it twice.


Stormbreath Dragon: This lizard has a pretty scary ability but the cost of tutoring it out and using it (!), plus the fact that it won't be around at the end of the turn, makes it pretty underwhelming.

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The following list contains (what I perceive to be) the weakest cards in the deck. If you have any suggestions for replacements please let me know:

Flamekin Village: Comes in to play tapped and non-bos with Worldgorger Dragon.


Myriad Landscape: Comes in to play tapped and essentially steals three mana the next turn for a two mana return later. Also a target for LD.


Worn Powerstone: Comes in to play tapped and non-bos with Worldgorger Dragon.

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Have any questions, suggestions, or comments? I'm open to discuss any changes with the deck. What I am looking for most are ways to speed the deck up and make it more consistent.

Top Ranked	Achieved #15 position overall 8 years ago
Date added	9 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 3 Rares 17 - 1 Uncommons 2 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.00
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon 6/6 R, Enchantment Golem 3/3 C
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