Lathliss, Queen of Dragons (Red dragon tibal!)

Commander / EDH Budget Dragons Mono-Red

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Dragons (25)

• 1x Backdraft Hellkite
• 1x Blast-Furnace Hellkite
• 1x Flameblast Dragon
• 1x Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
• 1x Glorybringer
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Hoard-Smelter Dragon
• 1x Hunted Dragon
• 1x Leyline Tyrant
• 1x Moltensteel Dragon
• 1x Nesting Dragon
• 1x Obsidian Charmaw
• 1x Opportunistic Dragon
• 1x Rapacious Dragon
• 1x Ryusei, the Falling Star
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Shivan Devastator
• 1x Skyline Despot
• 1x Spawn of Thraxes
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Territorial Hellkite
• 1x Terror of the Peaks
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Verix Bladewing
• 1x Warmonger Hellkite

Land (36)

• 1x Arch of Orazca
• 1x Crucible of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• 31x Mountain
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Spinerock Knoll

Rocks & Ramp (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Dragonlord's Servant
• 1x Dragonspeaker Shaman
• 1x Hazoret's Monument
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Liquimetal Torque
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Orb of Dragonkind
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Urza's Incubator

Removal & Wipes (7)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Earthquake
• 1x Magmaquake
• 1x Mogg Salvage
• 1x Where Ancients Tread

Dragon Synergy & Anthems (6)

• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Dragon's Hoard
• 1x Minion of the Mighty
• 1x Sarkhan, Fireblood
• 1x Sarkhan the Masterless
• 1x Shared Animosity

Commander (1)

Flavour & Utility (7)

• 1x Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Magus of the Moon
• 1x Molten Echoes
• 1x Mudslide
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Card Draw (6)

• 1x Furious Rise
• 1x Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Rogue's Gloves
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner

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Other (6)

• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Spit Flame
• 1x Stormbreath Dragon
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Thunderbreak Regent
• 1x Thundermaw Hellkite

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Mono-red dragon tribal, led by Lathliss, Dragon Queen.

This is a pretty simple deck, which has been helped enormously by the recent releases and quite a lot of new dragons! There are some more optimisations to be made but this is a good first-draft of the deck.

The best opening hand here doesn't actually have any dragons in it - you want some of the rocks and ramp because dragons are EXPENSIVE. Then, once you are a little more established, start pumping out dragons and all their tribal synergy, hopefully generating a ton of dragon tokens with Lathliss, Dragon Queen, and then smash face.

Updates to come!

UPDATE: Just a quick update note to say that after early play testing this deck is really fun and works surprisingly well. There is quite a lot of ramp in the deck and a hell of a lot of tribal synergy, combined with all the 5/5 dragon tokens from Lathliss you can get a pretty impressive board state pretty quickly. More testing to come.....

Update 2018-10-31

A few changes based on comments here and my own play testing:

• Dream Pillager out for Flameblast Dragon in - The pillager was too situational and the Flameblast is solid damage.
• Door of Destinies out for Conjurer's Closet in - Door needs lots of cast dragons, which is tough given their cost, whereas the Closet lets us keep repeating those sweet ETB effects.

• Mirror of the Forebears out for Rogue's Gloves in - Not so sure about this one but I never seem to use the Mirror and the Gloves will help with the poor card draw without breaking too much theme.

Update 2019-01-25

A few dragon swaps based on comment suggestions and new purchases:

Freejam Regent out for Spawn of Thraxes in.

Furnace Whelp out for Moltensteel Dragon in.

Shockmaw Dragon out for Warmonger Hellkite in.

UPDATE 2019-02-26 THE REBREW UPDATE

I was previously using a "shared cards folder" to enable the use of medium and high cost cards in multiple decks. Having decided to stop using this folder I have had to make some modifications to all of my decks to fit the cards in. I also took this opportunity to make a few minor tweaks to my decks, which are also included in this update.

REMOVED:

• Thran Dynamo
• Vandalblast
• Hellkite Tyrant

ADDED:

• Worn Powerstone
• Mudslide
• Skarrgan Hellkite

UPDATE 2019-05-12

REMOVED:

• Reforge the Soul
• Where Ancients Tread
• Dragon Breath

ADDED:

• Skyline Despot
• Sarkhan the Masterless
• Sarkhan, Fireblood

UPDATE 2019-05-14

REMOVED:

• Lightning Shrieker
• Bathe in Dragonfire
• Dragon Hatchling
• 1x Mountain

ADDED:

• Ugin, the Ineffable
• Where Ancients Tread
• Outpost Siege
• Arch of Orazca

UPDATE 2020-03-22

REMOVED:

• Hellkite Igniter

ADDED:

• Backdraft Hellkite

UPDATE 2020-07-07

REMOVED:

• Cathartic Reunion
• Faithless Looting
• Outpost Siege
• Worn Powerstone
• Flameshadow Conjuring
• Skyship Stalker
• Bogardan Hellkite
• Shivan Dragon
• Crucible of Fir
• Sarkhan, Dragonsoul

ADDED:

• Thrill of Possibility
• Commune with Lava
• Furious Rise
• Arcane Signet
• Molten Echoes
• Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
• Opportunistic Dragon
• Terror of the Peaks
• Shared Animosity
• Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast

UPDATE 2020-08-16

REMOVED:

• Skarrgan Hellkite
• Conjurer's Closet

ADDED:

• Rapacious Dragon
• Rage Reflection

UPDATE 2021-06-28

REMOVED:

• Thrill of Possibility
• Insult / Injury
• Commune with Lava
• Draconic Roar
• 1xMountain

ADDED:

• Reforge the Soul
• Dragonmaster Outcast
• Obsidian Charmaw
• Mogg Salvage
• Liquimetal Torque

UPDATE 2023-01-16

REMOVED:

• Gilded Lotus
• Warsstorm Surge
• Rage Reflection
• Tyrant's Familiar

ADDED:

• Orb of Dragonkind
• Minion of the Mighty
• Blast-Furnace Hellkite
• Leyline Tyrant

UPDATE 2023-01-24

REMOVED:

• Demanding Dragon

ADDED:

• Shivan Devastator

Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Exclude colors	WUBG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 1 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.02
Tokens	City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Dragon 2/2 R, Dragon 4/4 R, Dragon 5/5 R, Dragon 6/6 R, Dragon Egg 0/2 R, Karox Bladewing 4/4 R, Knight 2/2 W w/ First Strike, Spirit 2/2 C, The Monarch, Treasure
Folders	My Built Decks, Interesting, Deck Inspiration, Lathliss, Inspiration