The problems with Feast and Famine over the Umbra is that you have to hit with the Sword, rather then swing with the umbra.

The sword can have the same effect as the Umbra, but you have to have enough mana during the declare attackers step.

I'm really liking this deck. I never really saw much appeal to dragons before this, and now I'm just blowing through ideas about them!

So thanks for the inspiration.

Though if I may ask, why don't you run the cycle of Pain lands in your mana base? When I tried to make a 5 color mana base, first thing I went for were the Shock lands, Pain lands, and the lands like Sunpetal Grove .

Only problem with this was that I couldn't have that many "special" lands, so I went with the really good ones like Cavern of Souls , Command Tower , Strip Mine , and City of Brass

Thanks :)

I just have no reason to run them, really. With all my 5-color lands, Chromatic Lantern , Lotus Bloom , and Gilded Lotus and the insane amount of ramp I have, I don't need an overabundance of mana fixing because it's all already there.

Survival of the Fittest would provide a way to dump dragons into the graveyard and get another utility creature.

Survival is also pretty expensive... I'd need to test it out first to see how it performs in here before I commit to buying it. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

No Dragon Tyrant !?

My favorite win option with Scion is Utvara Hellkite + Scourge of Valkas ;)

If you have the money, Sword of Feast and Famine is another way to combo with Hellkite Charger , as well as just giving a boost to a creature, discard, and being able to cast twice as much stuff.

Oh, and Patriarch's Bidding would be insane. :)

Love this!

What about Phyrexian Arena ?

Nice. Looks really fun deck. :) +1 from me.

For some better ways to grab land, how about Kodama's Reach , which is better than Skyshroud Claim , and also Rampant Growth , which is just a generally good card.

How can you say that Kodama's Reach is better than Skyshroud Claim ?

Both sorcery.
Reach is 3 skyshroud is 4. Ok it costs one more, lets look at the effect.
Claim gets 2 Forests (read shocklands) UN-tapped into PLAY.
Reach gets 2 BASIC lands one comes into play tapped, the other doesn't come into play at all.

Da hell?

It's the same with Rampant growth, enters tapped and also only grabs basics.

Are you sure that the combo with Moltensteel Dragon and the Blight Dragon works? Does't activating it the second time eliminate any lingering affects?

Nope, it works. You add the buff effect to scion, remember, not Moltenteel. So it stays on Scion until end of turn, who just happens to (after you allow his ability to resolve a second time) be Skythirix, and it goes through with infect,

Manipulating the stack is a lot of fun haha.

You NEED Channel the Suns for the turn 2-3 kill also Scourge of Valkas +Rite of Replication = 216 dammage for 9 mana not bad in my book

I'm not sure what you mean by I need that card for the turn 2-3 kill?

Also, that's a great combo. And I have a rite of replication in my binder. I'll try and fit it in.

Turn 1 Sol Ring turn 2 Channel the Suns scion turn 3 dig up Moltensteel Dragon for the win. And if you had a mox (any mox Mox Diamond would work) or a Lotus Petal you could Channel the Suns turn 1 and then moltensteel turn 2 for the win

Unless you have a turn 2-3 kill in there im not seeing

Hellkite Charger + Sword of Feast and Famine = infinite combat phases.

Patriarch's Bidding is the high nut in any tribal reanimator build.

Fun Combo. Utvara Hellkite + Scourge of Valkas + Progenitor Mimic making copies of either of them. I run a very similar deck. It has had amazing success, http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/thar-be-dragons-here/

Do you have Dragonstorm ? I can't see the decklists for some reason.

Moltensteel dragon doesn't win the game itself you need to pay 42 life and still survive. Your opponent also has to not be able to block. Which would probably never happen, Kozelek. That's why you need skythirix and scion.

DirtyxDevil that's why bear umbra is in here. But the sword is probably going to be it's replacement if I find myself with one.

WreckedHim that's probably coming in, any idea what to take out?

thomaspryde It's possible, but I don't really like progenitor mimic

SwaggyMcSwagglepants That card is bad even in this deck :| and the list is showing up fine