The Smoldering Grave (Bladwing the Risen)

Commander / EDH

LylaRose

Creature (34)

• 1x Anathemancer
• 1x Avaricious Dragon
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Bladewing's Thrall
• 1x Bogardan Hellkite
• 1x Boltwing Marauder
• 1x Bone Shredder
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Dragonlord's Servant
• 1x Dragonspeaker Shaman
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Hoard-Smelter Dragon
• 1x Hoarding Dragon
• 1x Knollspine Dragon
• 1x Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
• 1x Liliana's Specter
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Manic Vandal
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Phyrexian Rager
• 1x Runehorn Hellkite
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stormbreath Dragon
• 1x Swift Warkite
• 1x Tyrant's Familiar
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Viashino Racketeer
• 1x Viscera Seer

Land (37)

• 1x Akoum Refuge
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodfell Caves
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Lavaclaw Reaches
• 10x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
• 1x Smoldering Crater
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of the False God

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Dreadbore
• 1x Incendiary Command
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Living End
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Erratic Portal
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Kolaghan Monument
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Instant (5)

• 1x Entomb
• 1x Murderous Cut
• 1x Rescue from the Underworld
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Terminate

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Spiteful Visions

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Sarkhan the Mad

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Creature (19)

• 1x Anarchist
• 1x Archwing Dragon
• 1x Blood Scrivener
• 1x Dragonlord's Servant
• 1x Dream Pillager
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Mindwrack Demon
• 1x Mogis's Marauder
• 1x Necromancer's Assistant
• 1x Phyrexian Rager
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Runehorn Hellkite
• 1x Scourge of Nel Toth
• 1x Skyline Despot
• 1x Stronghold Rats
• 1x Thundermaw Hellkite
• 1x Wailing Ghoul

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Living End
• 1x Morality Shift
• 1x Sins of the Past
• 1x Volcanic Vision
• 1x Wheel of Fate
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Artifact (2)

• 1x Grafted Skullcap
• 1x Immortal Coil

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Sarkhan the Mad

Instant (5)

• 1x Corpse Churn
• 1x Necrologia
• 1x Pack's Disdain
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Sarkhan's Triumph

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Fervor
• 1x Greed
• 1x Mass Hysteria
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

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A Bladewing the Risen deck I put together with stuff I had lying around! It actually turned into a cohesive deck, though the mana curve of it scares me just a tad.

I probably need a Dragonlord's Servant and/or Sarkhan's Triumph in here. But those were not at hand so I'll update this when I get them. I might also want to move this deck in a direction where it has more cards like Spiteful Visions that have the potential to kill you. Maybe a small Lich or lich-like card theme, with stuff that really has the potential to screw you over or requires you to take big risks for big reward. After all, the power of a Dracolich shouldn't come cheaply.

Some cards I wanna outline. There's also a small Wheel theme I might wanna increase at some point. These are all great with our Spiteful Visions and also part of the reason I included Stormbreath Dragon in here. Sire Of Insanity was a group slug card that's absolutely insane, since we probably don't care about dumping cards in our graveyard.

There are small Hoarding Dragon and Swift Warkite packages in the deck. Since I had a goal to keep the top end of the curve entirely dragons, I wanna expand the Warkite package into most other creatures in the deck if at all possible. One creature currently that's pretty scary with Warkite is Anathemancer .

Acid-Spewer Dragon , mostly made it in off deathtouch and the megamorph ability. It's mostly just a slot-filler though and will be removed as I tune up the deck a bit.

We mostly are just looking to close out games with our dragon army, but Utvara Hellkite + Scourge of Valkas or Dragon Tempest gives us tons of damage to someone's dome, and as I outlined before, Spiteful Visions is a potential endgame as well.

Strionic Resonator works with so much in the deck, including Bladewing! On a similar note is Conjurer's Closet and Erratic Portal. the Portal means you'll have to recast Bladewing, but it has the advantage of being instant speed, so it can protect your Commander or another creature you control from removal or wipes. Rescue from the Underworld is somewhat similar, and also can get you two creatures for the price of one if one of the targeted creatures is Bladewing.

As I upgrade this deck, I'll be looking at smoothing out the curve a little, increasing the wheel theme, as well as giving the deck more high risk, high reward cards, and streamlining out our dragon army, including adding in some redundancy with things like more tutors!

Chopping Block: Acid-Spewer Dragon , Boltwing Marauder , Decree of Pain, Dualcaster Mage, Hammer of Purphoros , Shivan Harvest (?), Syphon Mind, Thunderbreak Regent

Waiting in the Wings: Avaricious Dragon, Dragonlord's Servant, Magus of the Wheel , Runehorn Hellkite , Sarkhan the Mad, Sarkhan's Triumph , Wheel of Fate, Wheel of Fortune

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.20
Tokens	Dragon 5/5 R, Dragon 6/6 R, Enchantment Golem 3/3 C