Double Dragon

Commander / EDH RG (Gruul)

HerbieHero

Dragons (24)

• 1x Avaricious Dragon
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Bogardan Hellkite
• 1x Destructor Dragon
• 1x Dragonlord Atarka
• 1x Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1x Foe-Razer Regent
• 1x Glorybringer
• 1x Harbinger of the Hunt
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Hoard-Smelter Dragon
• 1x Mordant Dragon
• 1x Ryusei, the Falling Star
• 1x Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker
• 1x Savage Ventmaw
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stormbreath Dragon
• 1x Territorial Hellkite
• 1x Thunderbreak Regent
• 1x Thundermaw Hellkite
• 1x Tyrant's Familiar
• 1x Utvara Hellkite

Draw (6)

• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Harmonize
• 1x Momentous Fall
• 1x Shamanic Revelation
• 1x Sylvan Library

Creature Search (3)

• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Sarkhan's Triumph
• 1x See the Unwritten

Lands - Fixing (15)

• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crucible of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Game Trail
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Kazandu Refuge
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Rugged Highlands
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Removal (9)

• 1x Decimate
• 1x Domri's Ambush
• 1x Hull Breach
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Molten Disaster
• 1x Rain of Thorns
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Lands - Utility (6)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Temple of the False God

Lands - Basic (17)

• 7x Forest
• 10x Mountain

Commander (1)

Ramp/Cost Reduction (14)

• 1x Atarka Monument
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Domri, Anarch of Bolas
• 1x Dragonlord's Servant
• 1x Dragonspeaker Shaman
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Greenweaver Druid
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Urza's Incubator

Utility (5)

• 1x Crucible of Fire
• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Frontier Siege
• 1x Lightning Greaves

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(And I Feel Fine...)

This deck came out of a very simple desire: to burninate the countryside with a ton of dragons. Originally, I had tried to just build a dragon subtheme into my Riku of Two Reflections deck (deck:reflection-ramp). This was insufficient, and so I decided to build a separate deck with permanent access to Atarka, World Render and her double-strike-granting greatness.

As one might expect of a fairly creature-heavy green/red deck, there's a decent amount of ramp here. In particular, I get to take advantage of creatures that ramp into more creatures (like Shaman of Forgotten Ways and Somberwald Sage ) or that take advantage of creatures already on the table (like Whisperer of the Wilds ). I considered dragon-cheapening creatures like Dragonlord's Servant and Dragonspeaker Shaman , but at the end of the day, I didn't want to go too heavily into creatures that do nothing but help me cast more creatures.

So this deck basically has three modes: Ramp into dragons, cast dragons, and reload hand when I run out of dragons. There are some exceptions to that structure in the form of support spells like Dragon Tempest and Crucible of Fire , but in general I want to just be crashing in with huge numbers of dragons. Stick Atarka as soon as possible for that all-important double strike support. Sarkhan's Triumph , See the Unwritten , and the draw suite help me find Utvara Hellkite , which is a powerful way to close out the game just by massing even more dragons.

I have a few pieces of spot removal (and Molten Disaster ), but not too many, since I'm counting on my dragons to outclass anything else they face. That's also why I'm not running board wipes; I'd have trouble rebuilding my own board after dropping one, so I'd have a good chance of hindering myself more than anyone else.

Running only two colors lets me fit in a few utility lands, though I didn't find too many that I particularly wanted. The big things here that I'm excited to get to use are Haven of the Spirit Dragon and Crucible of the Spirit Dragon .

There are a few cards that I'm thinking of throwing in as well. Descendants' Path might be a good way to carry some momentum forward, or filter out less-desirable cards, without going down on cards in hand. Greater Good would provide me with a great solution to the board wipe problem. Ugin, the Spirit Dragon would be a rather amenable form of board wipe that can get rid of smaller creatures while leaving my giant dragons untouched.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.19
Tokens	Dragon 5/5 R, Dragon 6/6 R, Emblem Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker