Scion of the Ur-Dragon

Commander / EDH Combo Creature Cheat Dragons Stompy

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Land (38)

• 1x Adarkar Wastes
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Caves of Koilos
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Secluded Courtyard
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Ramp (26)

• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Impulse
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Talisman of Resilience
• 1x Talisman of Unity
• 1x Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind
• 1x Jade Orb of Dragonkind

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Earnest Fellowship
• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Necromancy

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Ruinous Ultimatum

Commander (1)

Dragons (23)

• 1x Immersturm Predator
• 1x Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 1x Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
• 1x Moltensteel Dragon
• 1x Realm-Scorcher Hellkite
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Shimmer Dragon
• 1x Silumgar, the Drifting Death
• 1x Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon
• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Bladewing the Risen
• 1x Chromium, the Mutable
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Morophon, the Boundless
• 1x Old Gnawbone
• 1x Tiamat
• 1x Tyrant's Familiar
• 1x Nicol Bolas
• 1x Blast-Furnace Hellkite
• 1x The Ur-Dragon
• 1x Scion of Draco

Other Creatures (2)

• 1x Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
• 1x Jodah, the Unifier

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Other (48)

• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Earnest Fellowship
• 1x Hunting Grounds
• 1x Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Fallaji Wayfarer
• 1x Rivaz of the Claw
• 1x Samite Elder
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Sylvia Brightspear
• 1x Temur Ascendancy
• 1x Captain Sisay
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1x Jodah, Archmage Eternal
• 1x Kaalia of the Vast
• 1x Saskia the Unyielding
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Kenrith, the Returned King
• 1x Moritte of the Frost
• 1x Terror of the Peaks
• 1x Thrakkus the Butcher
• 1x Xenagos, God of Revels
• 1x Aurelia, the Warleader
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Havoc Festival
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Lurking Predators
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
• 1x Ramos, Dragon Engine
• 1x Savage Ventmaw
• 1x Shivan Dragon
• 1x Beledros Witherbloom
• 1x Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1x Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
• 1x Shivan Hellkite
• 1x Hoarding Broodlord
• 1x Dragon Tyrant

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I like Scion of the Ur-Dragon as a dragon Commander because it lets you play with all your dragons, and can tutor up the right one in case you want to combo.

Scion's Ability Show

An interesting and fun way that Scion works, is you can activate it's ability multiple times in a row without resolving them. Then, once they start to resolve, Scion will become a different dragon for each resolution, allowing you to activate abilities of each dragon it becomes in between it turning into the next one. For example, activate Scion twice then start resolving. Once the first instance resolves, have it become a Moltensteel Dragon. Now, with the second instance still on the stack but before it resolves, pump the Moltensteel say five times. Then let the second instance trigger and turn into Dragon Tyrant. Now Scion will be a Dragon Tyrant, but it still has +5/+0. Now swing in with a 11/11 doublestrike flying trample commander for commander damage win!

Once these triggers start to resolve though, you cannot activate Scion's ability again, as it will no longer be the Scion. Abilities of different dragons must be activated at instant speed for the short time they remain that dragon in between resolutions. After the last resolution of Scion's ability, it will remain that dragon for the rest of the turn.

Worldgorger Dragon / Animate Dead Combo Show

This combo basically flickers your all your permanents as many times as you want, letting you tap mana sources in between to get almost-infinite mana...

If you have Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead, or Necromancy in your hand, you can activate Scion of the Ur-Dragon to put Worldgorger Dragon into the graveyard, then cast Animate Dead targeting Worldgorger Dragon in the graveyard.

When World Gorger enters the battlefield, all other permanents you own become exiled, including Animate Dead. When Animate Dead leaves play, World Gorger will go back into into the graveyard, which will return everything else back to play, including Animate Dead. Taget World Gorger in the graveyard and repeat for loop -- Tap lands and mana rocks inbetween flickers for almost-infinite mana. (This is why the mana base includes original dual lands as opposed to shock lands, because with shock lands you would need to pay 2 life to use each land each time it gets flickered. You need to have a source of red mana you can tap each time for this combo to work. Could just have regular mountains, but...)

To end the cycle just reanimate a different dragon.

Winning with Shivan Hellkite

As long as you have a mountain, or a signet which produces red mana, you can get infinite red mana. End the loop by targeting anything else with Animate Dead, but specifically Shivan Hellkite. Just turn Scion into the Hellkite once you have all the mana, or while flikering to get into the graveyard. Then with all your mana, just burn the table.

Getting all the Dragons into play

This is a little less straight forward and a little confusing, I probably haven't done a great job explaining it...

But if you don't have access to mountain or a signet for infinite red mana, or you just want to see all your dragons in play, follow these steps:

1: Initiate World Gorger Loop, and generate at least {R}{B}, and a lot of colorless mana

2: Use colorless mana to put all dragons into the graveyard with Scion's ability, except for Moritte of the Frost, Bladewing the Risen and Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm. However you do this, ultimately Scion must become Miirym in the end for this to work.

3: Before Scion finally becomes Miirym, but before you put Moritte of the Frost into the graveyard, have Scion become Bladewing the Risen and activate it's second ability at least once for {R}{B}, giving all dragons +1/+1. This way when, Scion becomes Moritte to put it into the graveyard, Scion won't die from having 0 toughness. You have to activate Bladewing for +1/+1 before Scion becomes Moritte.

4: Once all dragons a are in the graveyard and you are ready to end the loop, have World Gorger go to the graveyard, which will return all your permanents untapped. Then when with Animate Dead comes back into play, target Bladewing the Risen in the graveyard. Now before animate dead resolves, with it's trigger on the stack, activate Scion to become Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm, putting Miirym into the graveyard.

5: Resolve Animate Dead and return Bladewing to the battlefield. This creates two triggers, one from Bladewing, and one from Miirym (Scion) which will create another non-Legendary Bladewing...

6: Have real Bladewing's ability resolve first, targeting Moritte of the Frost in the graveyard and have it enter the battle field as another copy Legendary copy of Bladewing.

7: This will again create triggers like step 5, one from Miirym (Scion) which will put another non-legendary token of Moritte-Bladewing into play with another trigger. Now there are two Moiritte-Bladewing triggers on the stack, an unresloved one from step 5, and the one from step 6.

You will also have to sacrifice one of your Legendary Bladewings, one being a Legendary Moritte Copy, to the legend rule at this point, before the two non-Legendary Moritte-Bladewing triggers resolve. (It doesn't really matter which one, but sacrificing Moritte might be a little more useful since it can still become a copy of something else when reanimated again, and this might all be easier to keep track of with the real Bladewing remaining on the battlefield.

8: Resolve non-Legendary Moritte-Bladewing's trigger from step six, targeting any other dragon in your graveyard. When that dragon comes into play it will trigger Miirym (Scion) creating another copy of it!

9: Now resolve Miirym (Scion)'s trigger from step 7 and create a non-legendary copy of Bladewing, since Moritte entered as a copy of Bladewing to trigger Miirym's ability. With this copy, target Moritte which is now in the graveyard and a legal target. Repeat step 7.

This way, each time you repeat this loop, you will get a dragon from the graveyard, a copy of that dragon, and another non-legendary Bladewing copy too. Also note that when done this way, this is all just a pile of triggers on the stack starting from resolving the Bladewing trigger in step 5. At the end of all this, there is still (Scion) Miirym's first trigger from step 5 waiting to resolve and put one last Bladewing copy into play. You can get infinite Bladwing copies too by just repeating this loop even if there are no other targets in the graveyard except Moritte.

If at any point, you reanimate Miirym during this loop, you will create a non-legendary copy of it, and will have to sacrifice either it or Scion to the legendary rule. If you sacrifice Miirym and not Scion, you can continue to reanimate Miirym, which will continue to make more non-legendary copies of it. However, with even just two Miiryms in play, it starts to get a little confusing as you will now get two additional copies of Moritte. If you copied Miirym with one, Bladewing with another, and Moritte again with another, you'd get...... I don't really recommend doing this, as it just gets to crazy too fast, and isn't really necessary. Two of every dragon and infinite Bladewings should usually be enough...

If Miirym is already in your graveyard or in your hand, you will not be able to do this loop, as it needs to be in play when the first Bladewing trigger resolves. You won't have a chance to cast it after the World Gorger loop is set up and before you reanimate Bladewing. If it's in your graveyard, you won't be able to reanimate it and Bladewing, unless I guess you have Dance of the Dead in hand also.

I'm sure this can be explained better or simplified somehow...

Other Combos and Synergies Show

Savage Ventmaw can get infinite combat phases with Aggravated Assault, and gets additional combat phases for one red mana each with with Hellkite Charger. Old Gnawbone can also help get additional attacks with Aggravated Assault.

Jodah, Archmage Eternal and Morophon, the Boundless together make all your spells free. This is great if you have Tiamat in hand, as you can play Tiamat for free, then play five other dragons for free too. In this case, you could get Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm, Bladewing the Risen, and Moritte of the Frost and replicate the same combo as Worldgorger. Note that if you turn Scion into Morophon, you will not be able to choose "Dragons" for it's ability, as it is and ETB effect, and thus it will not reduce mana cost or work with Jodah.

Shaman of Forgotten Ways can use it's second ability in this deck, thanks to all the ramp. It is a very powerful ability which can end games, and is banned in the form of Biorhythm.

Swing for 22 or more commander damage by activating Scion twice, there two triggers on the stack that have to resolve. The second trigger will resolve first, turn Scion into Moltensteel Dragon, and now before the first trigger starts to resolve, pump with {R} or {RP}, say five times giving it +5/+0. Now let the first instance of Scion's ability finally resolve, and have it become Dragon Tyrant or Atarka, World Render. Now,it still gets the +5/+0, so it's an 11/11 flying, trample, doublestrike, Commander. You can also pump it up more than +5 by paying more {RP}.

I like to think that the other creatures in the deck just like to hang out with the dragons. Maybe they worship the dragons, or are like the leaders and generals of the dragon empire. Or they just have fun smashing face together...

Date added	2 years
Last updated	4 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 63 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 3 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.13
Tokens	Copy Clone, Treasure
Folders	Decks