Anjes dragon bait

Commander / EDH* BR (Rakdos) Budget Casual Dragons Madness Multiplayer Reanimator

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Land (41)

• 1x Blightstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Malakir Mire  ^Flip
• 14x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Valakut Stoneforge  ^Flip

Damage dealers (5)

• 1x Thundermaw Hellkite
• 1x Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 1x Lathliss, Dragon Queen
• 1x Terror of Mount Velus
• 1x Utvara Hellkite

Recursion (10)

• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Wake the Dead
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Bladewing the Risen

Draw (6)

• 1x Sarkhan, Fireblood
• 1x Reforge the Soul
• 1x Runehorn Hellkite
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Knollspine Dragon
• 1x Skyline Despot

Direct damage (5)

• 1x Sarkhan the Mad
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Red Dragon
• 1x Bogardan Hellkite

Commander (1)

Engine (28)

• 1x Entomb
• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 23x Dragon's Approach
• 1x Greed
• 1x Molten Echoes
• 1x Skirge Familiar

Removal (2)

• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Tyrant's Familiar

Boardwipe (1)

• 1x Scourge of Kher Ridges

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Why Anje Falkenrath?

Anje Falkenrath provides the ability to discard cards in return for a new draw, this synergises with the new Dragon's Approach allowing us to fetch our first dragon from the library at turn 5 most games.

Her second ability, the ability to untap when you discard a madness card, allows us to filter our library very efficiently, this in turn allows us to play fewer lands and less dragon's approach than we otherwise would.

On top of this she enables us to discard the dragons we draw, lending herself well to a reanimation theme

In short, Anje makes the dragons approach much better than any other commander!

Anje Falkenrath is a commander for you if:

You are mad!

You like filtering your deck

You like playing around with your graveyard

You like diverting from your playbook, when your draws gives you better options

If you like these things you probably won't enjoy Anje:

Ramping mana

Knowing how your turns are going to play out before it starts

Primarily playing in your own turn

Since we aren't using infinite comboes, this list isn't gonna make it in a competetive environment, it will serve you well if you play in a slightly softer environment, maybe with a regular group.

This particular list is without Sol Ring Mana Crypt and the other high powered ramp artifacts, the list would naturally be more powerful with them.

Card choices

The madness suite has been chosen based on it's playability, we've omitted all madness cards that we wouldn't play for their madness cost, as the madness cards

When to mulligan

Any hand featuring less than 2 lands calls for a mulligan.

Any hand featuring less than a combined 3 madness or dragons approach cards calls for a mulligan.

Anje's card filtering makes us quite tolerant regarding poor hands, in so far as we believe we can acquire the mana to play her.

The playbook

Turn 1

Play land, pass turn

Turn 2

Play land, pass turn

Turn 3

Play land. Play Anje, pass turn.

If nothing happens during the turn, whicch you need to respond to with a madness card trigger, discard a dragon's approach card at the end step before your turn. On turn 3, that's likely limited to Blazing Rootwalla

If you have no dragons approach, discard madness cards until you draw one.

Turn 4

Play land Play Dragon's approach, pass turn

If nothing happens during the turn, whicch you need to respond to with a madness card trigger, discard a dragon's approach card at the end step before your turn. Feel free to also activate any <= 1 mana cost madness cast prior to discarding the dragon's approach.

If you have no dragons approach or land cards, discard madness cards until you draw one.

Turn 5

Play land Discard a Dragon's approach with Anje to draw another card. Play Dragon's approach exile the 4 dragon's approach in the graveyard and the one you just played to find Skyline Despot

If you have no dragons approach or land cards, discard madness cards until you draw one.

This got you exiting turn 5 as the monarch, primed to generate a dragon token at the start of turn 6, aswell as drawing into a full hand on the draw step.

If there is a significant threat of you receiving combat damage before your next turn, it may be better to get Drakuseth, Maw of Flames Though in my experience, piloting this deck, there is rarely a situation on turn 5, where someone can attack into a dragon and still manage combat damage.

As the game progresses HP pools will drop lower and lower due to the repeated Dragon's Approach casts, aswell as the damage triggers from the variety of dragons and general interfighting.

The endgame will turn into a race, as our goal is to get people to 0 before their board state overwhelms us, though we do have a few lines where we can build overwhelming advantage on the board, including keeping hold on the monarch title and the Skyline Despot, which we can reanimate multiple times troughout the game, to reclaim the monarch title.

There is also Utvara Hellkite, which can generate a healthy amount of dragons, but our primary strategy is doing a slow burn that throws threats on the table.

Top Ranked	Achieved #28 position overall 2 years ago Achieved #21 position in Commander / EDH 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BR (Rakdos) 2 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Dragons 2 years ago
Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 26 - 0 Commons
Cards	99
Avg. CMC	4.16
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon 5/5 R, Dragon 6/6 R, The Monarch
Folders	Active decks