Golos Dragon Stompy on a Good Budget

Commander / EDH

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Lands (38)

• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 4x Snow-Covered Forest
• 3x Snow-Covered Island
• 4x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 3x Snow-Covered Plains
• 3x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

GG (4)

• 1x Sarkhan the Mad
• 1x Scion of the Ur-Dragon
• 1x Dragonstorm
• 1x The Ur-Dragon

Recursion (2)

• 1x Bladewing the Risen
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms

Draw (1)

• 1x Lurking Predators

The Perfect Card (1)

• 1x Temur Ascendancy

Rocks (13)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dragon's Hoard
• 1x Fist of Suns
• 1x Firemind Vessel

Removal and Sweepers (9)

• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Dragonlord Silumgar
• 1x Malfegor
• 1x Silumgar, the Drifting Death

Combat Enhancers (6)

• 1x Sylvia Brightspear
• 1x Dromoka, the Eternal
• 1x Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
• 1x Aurelia, the Warleader
• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Gisela, Blade of Goldnight

Haste Enablers (3)

• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 1x Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund

Protect (1)

• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka

Commander (1)

Ramp (10)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Jodah, Archmage Eternal
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Morophon, the Boundless

Heavy Hitters (8)

• 1x Lathliss, Dragon Queen
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Chromium, the Mutable
• 1x Darigaaz Reincarnated
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Progenitus

Tutors (3)

• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor
• 1x Sarkhan's Triumph

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Welcome to Golos Dragon Stompy!

You may like this deck if: - You like cheating huge dragons into play and using them to overrun your foes.

• You like demolishing the blue players at the table before they can get their defences up.

• You would rather play a less traditional Golos deck.

• You like winning in different ways each game.

• You are looking for a fun, pretty much optimized EDH deck to play against friends or your playgroup.

You would not like this deck if:

• You want to play a long, drawn-out game in which you accrue incremental value over time.

• You like to combo off in the early game.

• You like to be the control player at the table.

• You hate creatures.

• Your playgroup meta consists of 10 bazillion dollar cEDH decks that can win in the early game consistently (Seriously those are not fun to play against with a stompy deck).

The average Competitive Golos EDH deck will probably contain some instant win combos and a ton of ways to tutor for them, as this is a five-colour deck, so you have access to pretty much every combo, tutor, and good card in the whole format. But do you ever get bored of combos? Do you get sick of winning the game in the same boring fashion every time? Enter Golos Dragon Stompy.

This deck takes dragon tribal to the next level, with a reliable way to cheat out huge dragons in your command zone, a commander whose colours allow you to play every good dragon in the game, which is really fun. Most beginning magic players have felt the urge to try to build a dragon deck, to fly over opponents on the wings of these mighty beasts and rain fire down upon them. However, dragon decks really aren't the most competitive, and the tribe has been largely pushed out of constructed play.

I first began playing Golos when a friend bought me a Dark Depths, Thespian's Stage, and a Golos as a gift. I used the Depths + Stage combo as my primary win-con, and Maze's End or beatdown as my secondary one. Although playing a big mana deck was fun, I often couldn't activate Golos's ability, as I was worried I would exile one or more of the key lands that I used to win. With this deck, I hope to maximize the use of Golos's ability, cheating huge dragons off of the top of my library.

Why Golos?

Golos's activated ability is incredible at cheating out massive threats, including dragons. Dragons are an underplayed tribe mainly because they cost so much mana, and your opponent will probably have the game in the bag before you manage to cast even a single one of your fire-breathing friends. Golos fixes this problem by allowing you to ramp when it ETBs, as well as being a source of repeatable card and mana advantage on a stick.

The Gameplan:

Ramp into Golos, Use its ability, cheat out big bois, smash face! This simple yet effective gameplan gets carried out differently every game, which makes the deck even more fun to play.

The Key Combo

This deck uses a very strange yet utterly disgusting interaction as its main combo. Casting Morophon, the Boundless with a Fist of Suns or Jodah, Archmage Eternal on the field allows you to play every dragon in your hand for free. This combo seems like it shouldn't work, but after a whole bunch of google searching, I determined that when fist/jodah asks you if you would like to pay an alternate cost to cast a spell in your hand, if that spell is of the type morophon named, morophon's cost reduction is applied to the alternate cost, making the spell free.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.35
Tokens	Dragon 5/5 R, Dragon 6/6 R
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