The Ur-Dragon

Legendary Creature — Dragon Avatar

Eminince — As long as this is in the command zone or on the battlefield, other Dragon spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Flying

Whenever one or more Dragons you control attack, draw that many cards, then you may put a permanent card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (42)

MTGBurgeoning on Scion of the Ur-Dragon: Every. Dragon. Ever.

3 months ago

Thank you for the kind words! I appreciate them. I had to double-check the deck list to ensure that a copy of Reanimate was NOT in it. I had a copy of it in the deck for many, many moons ago and then replaced it a couple of years ago. With the recent additions of Colossal Grave-Reaver and Sarkhan, Soul Aflame, perhaps I should entertain Reanimate's return to the 99. I cannot include Show and Tell here because I do not want to assist my opponents in any way. I understand the benefit of dropping down Dracogenesis, but due to the threats of my opponents freely putting into play Eldrazi, Omniscience, or anything that helps to acclerate their own game plans, I will stand pat on that suggestion. I like the idea of including a copy of Frantic Search, particularly because it is an instant. Herd Heirloom is a definite future addition once a copy of it becomes available, most likely replacing Chromatic Lantern. Steely Resolve garners a little less consideration here, but is not completely ruled out. Its presence would allow Plaza of Heroes and Lightning Greaves to be replaced, although the loss of haste for the creature equipped by the Greaves may be missed. The neutering of Rite of Replication is one reason to push back against auto-including Steely Resolve. An unsuspected kicked RoR is a win condition here and has resulted in many victories in the past. Another reason is that Steely Resolve is symmetrical. If one of my opponents is also playing Dragons, I either have a dead card in hand, or a card that nullifies all of the spot interaction for my opponents' Dragons. In my play group, there are A LOT of Dragon decks (The Ur-Dragon, Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm, Morophon, the Boundless, Tiamat), so considering Steely Resolve from a distance is a necessary process here. As for Despark and/or Grasp of Fate, I can definitely reconcile the inculsion of these spot removal spells. Which cards would you recommend replacing? This is one of my oldest EDH decks, and I stuggle mightily at times deciding which cards to replace in the 99 because, at least through my eyes, the deck list has become very, very tight over the years (about ten years). Maybe Despark for Path to Exile? Grasp of Fate for Beast Within? Thank you for your comment! It's always great to communicate with fans of Scion of the Ur-Dragon, especially during the era of The Ur-Dragon. Thanks again!

DemonDragonJ on The Ur-Dragon has Surpassed Atraxa

5 months ago

For many years, Atraxa, Praetors' Voice was the top commander on EDHREC.com, but The Ur-Dragon has finally surpassed her, likely because of all the amazing dragons that were in Tarkir: Dragonstorm, so I would like to observe a moment of silence for our blessed lady of Phyrexia, and also offer my congratulations to the Ur-Dragon for claiming the title of top commander!

What does everyone else say, about this? How do you feel about The Ur-Dragon now being the top commander of all time on EDHREC, and do you predict that another legendary creature shall eventually claim that title? I certainly am very interested to receive your feedback, on this matter!

Andramalech on UR a Dragon, Harry

8 months ago

Jealous you pulled The Ur-Dragon! Enjoy the build. Maybe check out my build for ideas, Progenitor of Fire.

TypicalTimmy on Card creation challenge

8 months ago

The Last Sliver {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}

Legendary Creature - Sliver

At the beginning of your upkeep, you may exile target sliver card from your hand, graveyard or on the battlefield.

Slivers you control have abilities of Slivers you own in exile.

"Evolution, evolved."

6/6

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Make a new card for The Ur-Dragon

Flarhoon13 on Saskia keeps hitting

10 months ago

Fifth loss in a row with this deck was one where I could have won if I had seen the line. Instead, Saskia lost a very, very close one to Dave infecting me with a Phyrexian Swarmlord after a Putrefax put me to 5 poison counters. Saskia managed to kill The Ur-Dragon player, Harrison, who had won the previous game this evening with Kykar, Wind's Fury and an infinite Grapeshot. I put the wrong card under a Spinerock Knoll: Tymna the Weaver *f-etch* instead of an Utter End, which I could have used to remove a Phyrexian Swarmlord instead of dying to poison damage. Still, I could have won. I cast a Headliner Scarlett with two opponents. Either one had enough to kill me on the crack back. I cast a Tyranid Invasion pre-combat in order to get two 3/3 tokens, rather than one token post-combat. Either way, I didn't have enough blockers to survive. I drew with Tymna the Weaver *f-etch* and I'm not entirely sure what card it was but I died holding a game winning card in hand... Casting a Naya Charm to tap down David's board in his combat step instead of the Tyranid Invasion on my last turn would have let me survive and take out the remaining player. Taking out David instead of Jesse might have gotten me the win, too, since I had gained a ton of life via a turn 2 Serra Ascendant to possibly survive another massive Horde of Notions elemental army attack.

Stardragon on Bad 5 color commander

11 months ago

I'm making a 5 color bad legendary deck (as in bad not overpowered) and need a bad commander at helm. Any 5 color tribal commander like the slivers or The Ur-Dragon can work since there terrible commanders if not being used in a tribal deck but it doesn't feel right. There's of course Karona, False God but I already have her as a Bad gifts commander so I'd rather use a different one if possible. What are your thoughts

Flarhoon13 on Tazri, Blinkstorming the Undercity

11 months ago

Having completed my quest to play all 52 of my decks, I decided to try getting a win with all of my decks.

Aug 30

Tazri Blinkstorming the Undercity: Loss to Benjamin's The Ur-Dragon. Roaming Throne assisted Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire second attack. Aggravated Assault went infinite with Faeburrow Elder and Bloom Tender. My record with my losers' bracket decks goes to 0-3

Flarhoon13 on Narset, Enlightened Master, Creatureless Wins

11 months ago

May 3, 2024 I started a new quest. Having built 52 decks, I endeavoured to play them all, in roughly the same order as I created them.

July 19

Narset, Enlightened Master, Creatureless Wins loses, bringing my record to 14-18-1. Focus fired by Ben on The Ur-Dragon and Luke on Slivers, my turn 5 Narset was forced to chump block to keep me alive--thanks Luke--and the The Ur-Dragon had an insurmountable board to wipe us all out.