How to Train Ur-Dragon

Commander / EDH flawlesscowboy

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Don't Take My Word For It —Oct. 3, 2017

Because then a broadcast TV station in New York might try to sue me for stealing their precious slogan!

It appears there are over 12,000 unique Magic cards as of December of last year which is the most up to date information I can find. Of those 12,000 it appears almost 4,000,000 are beloved dragons! How is this possible?! I'm not sure and I got distracted while I was carrying ones, you should probably just ask a calculator. The long search through the greatest of all creatures is ongoing, but it has occurred to me based on some of the awesome comments left here that I might be better served first identifying a thing I want my majestic sky salamanders to encompass.

So... May I present: DRAGON TOKENS. (Ooooh, ahhhh!) Yes, please, maintain your composure if you can, and if not EMS are just outside. Tokens have long been a favorite thing for Magic players to produce in copious quantities and which have been represented by actual token cards and more commonly whatever bottle caps or dice are within arm's reach when you remember that your deck makes tokens at all. However, tokens are often... Tiny. 1/1 creatures, some occasionally 2/2, maybe they have flying, but not that often. Saprolings, Vampires, Spirits, Birds, Merfolk (do they make tokens?), and so on until you're kitchen table, carpet, most of your legs, any pets you might have, and any other surface you can find are covered with the facsimiles you have created.

You... You are making tons of them, right? That's what you're supposed to do. Make so many that you win because no one wants to count that high. Perhaps that's just me. Anyway...

In keeping with the spirit of our endeavor in this deck, I'd prefer if our tokens were five or six times as large as other player's tokens, but it appears those are few and far between. Already inside the deck was Dragonmaster Outcast who needs me to have six or more lands under my control to start popping off mighty dragon tokens on each of my turns. He now has a friend, and she is called Dragon Whisperer! She is twice as thicc both in her hustle game and in her pimp hand, and is positively laden with activated abilities. Her conditions for generating tokens are a mana cost and a threshold of toughness as we know that true dragon ninja master overlords of the ninth degree purge all weakness from their own forms and the spaces around them. Because this deck only has the hottest of the super hot fire, this will not be a problem.

Of course, these sky tyrants (or Awesome Aerial Autocrats, as they deign themselves) need a place to live! Where better then, than Dragon Roost? Yes, anywhere they damn well please is the correct answer, but sometimes a dragon needs some alone time where mortals aren't constantly offering themselves up as snacks. It's a hard life, but it can be made easier with seven mana which will cause this home away from home to produce a 5/5 flying token for our growing army!

Dragon Broodmother does only make 1/1 tokens, very unimpressive, but they come with the ability to grow just like Rita Repulsa's Putty Patrol and/or Goldar. Far be it for me, a soft and weak human, to pass judgement on these perfect examples of all that we could be, but are not. As such, I humbly welcome the contribution to Draconic greatness produced by the strongest and most independent of dragons, the single mother.

Along with tokens we can add Parallel Lives and I could grab Doubling Season or Primal Vigor from my Atraxa deck, but since I only care about tokens right now this should do us just fine. Other things are moving around, and I'm trying to drag myself to the task of reworking the mana base to more closely match the actual distribution of mana symbols on my cards, but that sounds like work and I must be seven, nine, or eleven because I cannot even.

Stay tuned for future greatness as we continue to chase those dragons, same dragon time, same dragon station!