Zirilan the Dragon Toolbox - 75%er EDH

Commander / EDH Dragons Mono-Red

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Ramp (20)

• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Dragon's Hoard
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Fire Diamond
• 1x Fractured Powerstone
• 1x Gauntlet of Might
• 1x Gauntlet of Power
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Irencrag Feat
• 1x Koth of the Hammer
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Endless Sands
• 1x Isolated Watchtower
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Scrying Sheets
• 30x Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Dragons (15)

• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Bogardan Hellkite
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Dragon Tyrant
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Lathliss, Dragon Queen
• 1x Moonveil Dragon
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Skyline Despot
• 1x Terror of Mount Velus
• 1x Thunder Dragon
• 1x Thundermaw Hellkite
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

Disruption (11)

• 1x Apocalypse
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Glacial Crevasses
• 1x Jokulhaups
• 1x Mana Web
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Shattering Spree
• 1x Skred
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1x Stranglehold

Commander (1)

Synergy (13)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Gratuitous Violence
• 1x Helm of Possession
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Molten Echoes
• 1x Safe Haven
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Synod Sanctum
• 1x Tawnos's Coffin

Draw (4)

• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Sarkhan, Fireblood
• 1x Scroll Rack

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Other (28)

• 1x AEther Flash
• 1x Aftershock
• 1x Backdraft Hellkite
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Changeling Berserker
• 1x Cold Storage
• 1x Crucible of Fire
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Erratic Portal
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Furnace of Rath
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Mirror of the Forebears
• 1x Mizzium Mortars
• 1x Mouth of Ronom
• 2x Mycosynth Lattice
• 1x Rapacious Dragon
• 1x Rishadan Pawnshop
• 1x Scour from Existence
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spawn of Thraxes
• 1x Spit Flame
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Tel-Jilad Stylus
• 1x Treasonous Ogre
• 1x Tyrant's Familiar

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Last updated for Commander 2020 and Ikoria.

Theme of the Deck: use Zirilan's ability to find silver-bullet dragons to interfere with other players gameplans, while using various synergy effects to build an overwhelming board presence.

How to play it: Ramp into Zirilan as fast as possible. The first dragon fetched up is often Thunder Dragon to clean up the board, or Dragon Mage for a fresh hand. There's a lot of ways to interact with the board using our "toolbox" of dragons.

Ideally, dragons can be saved at end of turn with Sundial of the Infinite or Conjurer's Closet. Slightly less ideally, save them up under Safe Haven, Endless Sands, Synod Sanctum or Cold Storage to be used later.

After stunting the growth of opposing board states, we eventually go for the kill with a big pump effect from Moonveil Dragon to buff the team, or Dragon Tyrant with a lot of mana to K.O. someone all at once.

Why Snow Mountains?

• Denies other red players access to Extraplanar Lens

• Allows use of Scrying Sheets for card advantage, Skred for removal, and Glacial Crevasses for fogs.

Combos:

Zirilan into Apocalypse + Worldgorger Dragon . Hold priority after casting Apocalypse, and tutor up Worldgorger to exile everyone elses stuff and keep your own. If you expect a Cyclonic Rift or other sweeper, tutoring up Worldgorger in response is a very neat answer.

Illusionist's Bracers + Zirilan of the Claw into Scourge of the Throne + Terror of Mount Velus is 40+ damage out of nowhere for an instant KO.

Notable Exclusions:

• Blood Moon and Ruination: add them to the deck if you feel like being mean.

• Mycosynth Lattice for combo with Hellkite Tyrant or Vandalblast (currently excluded from the build as it's too expensive/situational, and there's no reliable way to tutor for it.)

• A lot of effects such as Tel-Jilad Stylus which allow re-using dragons. My experience has been that you don't get to activate Zirilan enough times to make this worthwhile, and there's enough redundancy / copying of dragon effects to make this unnecessary. Including too many of these cards, such as Rishadan Pawnshop or Erratic Portal I think can easily turn into a trap making you far too reliant on the commander.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 year
Key combos	Apocalypse + Worldgorger Dragon Illusionist's Bracers + Zirilan of the Claw Scourge of the Throne + Terror of Mount Velus
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 8 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.73
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon 5/5 R, Dragon 6/6 R, The Monarch, Treasure