Scion of the Ur-Dragon

Commander / EDH Rhadamanthus

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New Dragon Friends —May 30, 2015

I decided to try something new and switched out all the Planar Chaos dragons for the Fate Reforged dragons. The deck plays very differently now.

ManikMedik says... #1

Not a dragon, but Sheoldred, Whispering One combos really well with Ur in my opinion.

October 22, 2012 8:21 p.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #2

She definitely does. If I can track down another copy, I might use her to replace card:Debtors' Knell.

October 22, 2012 8:56 p.m.

narrorater says... #3

I would also suggest the "star" dragons from kamigawa.

October 23, 2012 11:49 p.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #4

The #1 reason I'm not including any of them is that they don't work with the Commander's abilities, and I would rather all my dragons be able to synergize with him in some way. For example, this is also the reason I ended up removing Bogardan Hellkite in a previous update.

October 24, 2012 9:44 a.m.

narrorater says... #5

someone tries to kill Scion, well, now it's koshuko. also quicksilver dragon is great

October 27, 2012 12:43 a.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #6

If I choose to use the "go to Command zone'' replacement effect for Scion, the "dies" ability of any Star Dragon he changes into won't trigger, because he didn't actually go to the graveyard. I'd much rather put him in the Command zone and play him again rather than let him go to the graveyard.

October 27, 2012 10:08 a.m.

atrasicarius says... #7

October 28, 2012 6:38 a.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #8

Good call. My buddy just got a box of RtR, maybe he'll open one I can trade from him.

October 28, 2012 8:10 a.m.

JMANNO33O says... #9

What's wrong with Malfegor ????

December 31, 2012 8:14 p.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #10

He doesn't do anything when I make Scion of the Ur-Dragon shapeshift into him.

December 31, 2012 10:34 p.m.

JMANNO33O says... #11

ah thats an ETB trigger. Still would be good as a dragon alongside Scion.

January 1, 2013 3:19 a.m.

JMANNO33O says... #12

And considering I already have him, he'd be good for me.

January 1, 2013 3:19 a.m.

Shadoe531 says... #13

I also have a Scion deck and mine has more graveyard to battlefield abilities so you can Scion into Teneb, Reanimate Teneb and then return all the creatures from the graveyard you use Scion on back to the field using Teneb which will use ETB effects better.

January 23, 2013 5:35 p.m.

lethal-damage says... #14

I have a scion deck and I use Sarkhan Vol instead of Garruk Wildspeaker

April 4, 2013 10:48 p.m.

psyshock42 says... #15

i will point out the scion, of the ur-dragon's ability will NOT trigger ETB's because scion is already in play when he becomes a copy.

April 25, 2013 6:53 p.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #16

Yep, that's why I don't have any ETB dragons besides Bladewing the Risen and Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund (because they're just that great).

April 25, 2013 7:29 p.m.

psyshock42 says... #17

Just wanted to let chat know. :D

April 25, 2013 10:41 p.m.
June 29, 2013 9:40 p.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #19

The reason I don't use shuffle-in effects is because I'd rather use reanimation to get more uses out of the things I tutor into the graveyard.

I did think about the possibility of Conspiracy tricks when I was first building the deck, but then decided I didn't want to go in that direction.

Thanks for the comments though!

June 30, 2013 9:30 a.m.

Coconut42 says... #20

July 19, 2013 1:37 p.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #21

Ha! If you had come by a few weeks ago you would have seen her in here. I can't remember what I switched her out for but I should probably get her back in, for the tutoring at the very least. Thanks for the comment.

July 19, 2013 2:14 p.m.

Coconut42 says... #22

No problem

July 19, 2013 2:44 p.m.

well that and Vess can make you drop some dragons from your hand to the graveyard for reanimation...

July 19, 2013 9:05 p.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #24

Good point.

July 20, 2013 8:43 a.m.

Have Cavern of Souls , Scapeshift , and Chromatic Lantern ever hit your radar?

July 20, 2013 1:51 p.m.