Reduce, Reuse, Reanimate - The Dragon Cycle

Commander / EDH Dragons Five Color Living End

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Creature (46)

• 1x Arcades Sabboth
• 1x Architects of Will
• 1x Barkhide Mauler
• 1x Bloodbraid Elf
• 1x Bringer of the Black Dawn
• 1x Chartooth Cougar
• 1x Chromium
• 1x Deadshot Minotaur
• 1x Draco
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Drifting Djinn
• 1x Elvish Aberration
• 1x Enigma Sphinx
• 1x Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
• 1x Grixis Sojourners
• 1x Hellkite Igniter
• 1x Hellkite Overlord
• 1x Hypersonic Dragon
• 1x Igneous Pouncer
• 1x Jhessian Zombies
• 1x Jungle Weaver
• 1x Kathari Remnant
• 1x Krosan Tusker
• 1x Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1x Malfegor
• 1x Monstrous Carabid
• 1x Naya Sojourners
• 1x Nicol Bolas
• 1x Noble Templar
• 1x Numot, the Devastator
• 1x Pale Recluse
• 1x Palladia-Mors
• 1x Quicksilver Dragon
• 1x Ridge Rannet
• 1x Rorix Bladewing
• 1x Sanctum Plowbeast
• 1x Scion of Darkness
• 1x Shoreline Ranger
• 1x Spellbound Dragon
• 1x Twisted Abomination
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Vaevictis Asmadi
• 1x Valley Rannet
• 1x Wirewood Guardian
• 1x Yoked Plowbeast

Land (38)

• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Boros Guildgate
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 4x Forest
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 4x Island
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 4x Plains
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Rupture Spire
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Vivid Meadow

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Ardent Plea
• 1x Stormcaller's Boon
• 1x Training Grounds

Artifact (2)

• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Manalith

Instant (2)

• 1x Bituminous Blast
• 1x Violent Outburst

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Captured Sunlight
• 1x Demonic Dread
• 1x Deny Reality
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Living End
• 1x Morality Shift
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Traumatize

Commander (1)

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Creature (6)

• 1x Bant Sojourners
• 1x Esper Sojourners
• 1x Glassdust Hulk
• 1x Macetail Hystrodon
• 1x Primoc Escapee
• 1x Viscera Dragger

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I struggled for a while to find a commander and chose colors. When I realized Scion of the Ur-Dragon ability basically read "Dragon cycling" and let me play all the colors I was sold. All the random "cycling" cards are just filler to aid in moving through my deck to get to the cards I want and for cheap mana fix. they also act as great minions for the dragons. The goal is to almost never miss a land drop with seeing extra cards + the "land cycling". So basically I cycle until I can play Scion of the Ur-Dragon. After that I'm putting as many dragons in the graveyard as I can in a turn.

Once I have enough guys in the graveyard, I have the deck set to cascade until it hits Living End, wiping the board and bringing out a badass army full of Elder Dragons, lesser dragons and their cycling minions.

Other notes:

I am mainly looking to go off with Living End but I do have back ups in Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms and maybe in the future Liliana Vess

Morality Shift gives me one opportunity to reload if something goes wrong.

I don't have any counter magic which is a huge weakness but by picking the right time and having several ways to go off I should be ok. I can't wait for someone to target Scion of the Ur-Dragon and I turn him into a Quicksilver Dragon .

Things I need advice on:

Right now I have included Training Grounds because if I cascade into it pairing it with Scion of the Ur-Dragon I can dump ridiculous numbers of dragons into the grave yard. setting up the next cascade for an insane Living End. the problem is I'll only ever be 50% sure of what is going to happen if I have not seen either card.

Is Maelstrom Nexus worth it? it gives my cascade guys cascade, cascade which will let me cast a 4cmc or less cascade guy and guarantee hitting Living End secondly I can hit all my high cmc cards as 2 for 1 making them all crappy Armada Wurm s though a 2 for 1 elder dragon, dragon cascade would be great.

Any comments are much appreciated.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 38 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	5.98
Tokens	Dragon 6/6 R, Morph 2/2 C
Folders	Commander Ideas