Papa Ur's Dragons

Commander / EDH Aggro Dragons Ramp

mr_Trickster

Land (34)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Azorius Chancery
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Orzhov Basilica
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (30)

• 1x Arboreal Grazer
• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bladewing the Risen
• 1x Dragon Broodmother
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund
• 1x Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
• 1x Lathliss, Dragon Queen
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Scalelord Reckoner
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Silumgar, the Drifting Death
• 1x Teneb, the Harvester
• 1x Terror of the Peaks
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth

Artifact (7)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Curse of Verbosity
• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC
• 1x Sylvan Library

Instant (8)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Explore
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Finale of Eternity
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Primevals' Glorious Rebirth
• 1x Summer Bloom

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A focused Ur-Dragon deck with the goal being to out attrition everyone at the table.

Game Plan:

The deck aims to ramp up and start developing a board full of dragons as quickly as possible and then refilling the hand so that it can do so again the following turn, or immediately begin recovering from any kind of nonsense that gets thrown at it such as board wipes and similar interaction (Commonly, it'll be getting papa The Ur-Dragon out and swinging in for card draw).

Acceleration:

Acceleration for the deck is very land-based, with the Bouncelands (such as Rakdos Carnarium) allowing the deck to benefit from having effects that play multiple lands without losing too much card advantage immediately.

Effects like Burgeoning, Exploration, and Azusa, Lost but Seeking fill this role, while basic land search such as Cultivate and Kodama's Reach allow for the searching of lands of specific colors to fill out missing ones for casting specific dragons. The deck runs thirty-six lands for this reason. Extra land play effects wouldn't be very useful if most of the opening turns weren't hands filled with lands.

Of course, that begs the question, how the deck is supposed to take advantage of all that early ramp when it's so slot-intensive?

Card Advantage:

The deck runs a multitude of constant card-draw effects. Besides The Ur-Dragon that draws a card whenever a dragon attacks (as well as put a permanent into play), cards like Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, and Verity Circle all allow the deck to take advantage of opponent's playing the game by drawing cards when spells are cast or mana-producing creatures are tapped for mana.

Additional cards like Greater Good and Kindred Discovery allow the getting additional card advantage from dragons that are played before they even attack. Greater Good can actually be used in response to a board-wipe effect. Damnation? Terminus? I'll sacrifice all of my dragons to draw a lot of cards!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.48
Tokens	City's Blessing, Dragon 1/1 RG, Dragon 5/5 R, Dragon 6/6 R, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	Casual EDH