Burning-Tree Shaman is nice for allowing to drop another spell along with it, but what it doesn't do for this deck is provide extra mana on Turns 3-5 when I want to be casting Garruk, Primal Hunter and more dragons.

I love this deck! I did my own modifications to it and it has worked phenomenally! I replaced the Brimstone Volley with Searing Spear and I took out an Elvish Visionary (I know it's somewhat lowers the mana base with the Elvish Archdruid and you lose a card draw) and added 3 Domri Rade , it works great to force the fight with your dragon against there bigger creatures and allows more elves and dragons into your hand. Also if you ever hit the -7 ability it's good game!

Those are actually 2 changes I've really been considering. I'll have to playtest it a bit and see how it works out. Thanks!

You should 100% run Bioshift

I like pretty much dragon decks, and this one is awesome, Gyre accelerate a lot your game. I have some playtests against my token deck, and it was pretty tight, with the score in your favor. +1

Thanks! It doesn't always run right, but can be scary when it does. Definitely having a bit of fun with it.

+1, Slumbering Dragon loves him some Increasing Savagery !

PS--whenever I saw the poster for that movie, I always read it as "How to Drain your Dragon". Just throwing that out there.

How to Drain Your Dragon sounds like an R. Kelly song waiting to happen.

I really like Moonveil Dragon -- really powerful and a great late-game mana sink.

+1 for dragons!

I think I'd consider Moonveil Dragon if I had a way to filter all the green mana I can produce into red mana. For now Soul of the Harvest at 6cmc has been an all star for me. The deck got its first live action against mono black control, going 2-1 against it. Both wins involved Soul of the Harvest coming out and staying out at least a turn, allowing me to draw and cast creatures faster than my opponent could deal with it.

You might want to try Stonewright for finishing up the game with out having to use Kessig Wolf Run

I don't think he's really got synergy with the rest of the deck. Besides, I've got 2 creatures that trample and 12 that fly running around here. Plus 4 are Thundermaw Hellkite , which to this deck says "Dragons you control are unblockable this turn."

Ha ha ha +1 for hilarious deck description and for being the first Standard deck that I actually like. Well done sir!

Thanks! I might tweak the SB a bit more once I've gone through all my options. Right now I'm trying to get in the habit of making something of lesser used cards. Plus nobody expects a deck with 12 dragons in it to actually run well, which makes it fun when it does. :)

That's what she said. ;)

Also, this deck's pretty awesome lol. +1

Love your name, your deck and you style. +1s all around. Also, like the format to explain your deck. don't think I could really improve anything on here.

Would love some comments on my STD deck. Place em, Pump em, Fling em.

Where Descendants' Path ?

Thanks Airwolf and _Grintex! Only thing I've been considering has been cutting back down to 60 cards again, but it runs pretty efficiently as is. I'm pretty happy with the 6-8cmc bombs so keeping 2 of each seemed to make more sense. It also gave me more reasons to up the land count to 24.

@alecc

On most occasions I would throw my hands up in support of Descendants' Path in a tribal deck, this being one of the exceptions. The issue is I only have 12 dragons and 8 elves out of a total 28 creatures. Those other 8 creatures being Renegade Krasis , Deadbridge Goliath , and Soul of the Harvest .

A Soul of the Harvest that lives long enough for me to cast another creature spell does more work in this deck than I could ask for out of Descendants' Path . The other two I'm perfectly happy top decking for the reasons listed above, so I wouldn't want to dump them to the bottom of my library for a land or a late game Arbor Elf . Also, Descendants' Path would warrant the use of cheaper dragons like Dragon Hatchling and Furnace Whelp which in my opinion don't have the staying power of Slumbering Dragon , and they just aren't that good.

Have you ever considered Ring of Valkas ? I have found it to be a good way to wake my Slumbering Dragon and beef up all my others just on case.

I've been sticking to the get all the counters at once method. The name gives the impression that the deck is built around Slumbering Dragon , but it's really about lots of dragons. Slumbering Dragon just happens to be one of them. :)

why do you have Ground Seal ?

Mostly to shut down Unburial Rites or Snapcaster Mage . It can also prevent someone from targeting Increasing Savagery to exile it before I can use its flashback.

love this deck but what is the point of Staff of Nin ?

I figured the extra card advantage may help if I'm facing heavy removal. Soul of the Harvest might not stick around too long.