Dragons of Middle-Earth (A LotR Tribute)

Commander / EDH Aggro Battlecruiser Bracket 3 Competitive Dragons Flying Haste Land Destruction Reanimator Vorthos

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Land (35)

• 1x Arena of Glory
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Tundra
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Creature (33)

• 1x Ancient Silver Dragon
• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Beledros Witherbloom
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Colossal Grave-Reaver
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Dragon Broodmother
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 1x Dragonlord Ojutai
• 1x Dragonologist
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
• 1x Ignoble Hierarch
• 1x Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1x Kairi, the Swirling Sky
• 1x Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Noble Hierarch
• 1x Rivaz of the Claw
• 1x Roaming Throne
• 1x Sarkhan, Soul Aflame
• 1x Scalelord Reckoner
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Terror of the Peaks
• 1x Teval, the Balanced Scale
• 1x The Ur-Dragon
• 1x Twinflame Tyrant
• 1x Two-Headed Hellkite
• 1x Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire
• 1x Yosei, the Morning Star

Artifact (5)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dragon's Hoard
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Rise of the Witch-king
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Vindicate

Instant (8)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Deflecting SwatGC
• 1x Delay
• 1x Fierce GuardianshipGC
• 1x Galadriel's Dismissal
• 1x Wake the Dead

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Rhystic StudyGC
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Roiling Dragonstorm

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Sideboard

Creature (10)

• 1x Bladewing the Risen
• 1x Hellkite Courser
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Moltensteel Dragon
• 1x Nicol Bolas
• 1x Ojutai, Soul of Winter
• 1x Old Gnawbone
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Teneb, the Harvester
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Sarkhan the Mad

Artifact (1)

• 1x Blade of Selves

Instant (1)

• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Animate Dead

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Chandra's Ignition

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Maybeboard

Artifact (1)

• 1x Mana Crypt

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"It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any Dragons." - J.R.R. Tolkien Tribute to The Lord of the Rings; Scroll over list to see Alters - 3rd EDH deck I ever built, stayed my favorite Tribe ever since! B)

"Never laugh at live Dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself. And it became a favorite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. - The Hobbit (1937)

Alters: Command Tower - Barad-dur

Mana Crypt - Doors of Durin

Sol Ring - Frodo Baggins holding The One Ring

Arcane Signet - Gandalf wearing Narya

Vindicate - Boromir lying in the boat, after Parth Galen, blade in hands & covered in flowers w/cloven horn of Gondor

Faeburrow Elder - Treebeard carrying Merry & Pippen

Skyshroud Claim - Legolas

Lightning Greaves - Gimli

Rhystic StudyGC - Bilbo on his porch writing 'There & Back Again'

Bloom Tender - Arwen Undomiel

Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea - Galadriel

Nature's Lore - Tom Bombadil

Greater Good - Elrond at the Battle of Dagorlad

Pernicious Deed - Gollum

Anguished Unmaking - The Witch-king vs Éowyn

Patriarch's Bidding - Sauron

Shizo, Death's Storehouse - Shelob

Balefire Dragon - Smaug

Dragon's Hoard - Smaug on his mountain of gold

The Ur-Dragon - Ancalagon the Black (The Silmarillion)

Bayou - Dwarves entering Mirkwood Forest

Underground Sea - Ringwraiths at River Bruinen

Taiga - Rivendell, day of The Fellowship

Volcanic Island - The Ruin of Numenor

Savannah - Bag End visited by Gandalf

Tundra - Gondolin, hidden kingdom of Beleriand

Plateau - Gandalf Stormcrow rides for Minas Tirith

Tropical Island - Mt. Taniquetil (Olympus) in Valinor

Badlands - Sauron overseeing construction of Barad'dur

Mother of Runes - Daenerys Targaryen with her Dragons (Game of Thrones)

Scalelord Reckoner - Haku (Spirited Away)

Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire - Deathwing the Destroyer (World of Warcraft)

Dragonlord Ojutai - Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon)

Dragonlord Dromoka - Shenron (Dragon Ball series)

Atarka, World Render - Alduin (Skyrim)

Ojutai, Soul of Winter - Falkor (The Neverending Story)

Scrubland - The Ivory Tower (The Neverending Story)

Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm - Kaidou of the Beasts (One Piece)

Teneb, the Harvester - Seath the Scaleless (Dark Souls)

Selvala, Heart of the Wilds - San (Princess Mononoke)

Mockups being commissioned for. Will update with scans once completed:

Delighted Halfling - Sam in his garden

Living Death - Aragorn waking the Dead Men of Dunharrow

Rite of Replication - Saruman learning Orc spawning from Witch-King

Garruk's Uprising - Éomer facing off against the Oliphants

Dragonlord Kolaghan - Kalameet (Dark Souls)

Yosei, the Morning Star - Saphira (Eragon series)

Two-Headed Hellkite - Placidusax (Eldin Ring)

Colossal Grave-Reaver - Durnevhiir (Skyrim)

Volrath's Stronghold - Minas Morgul (Rob Alexander, 1997)

Combos of Note:

1. Moltensteel Dragon + Atarka, World Render (or Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon = 1-shot

2. Beledros Witherbloom / Bear Umbra + Lathliss, Dragon Queen / Kessig Wolf Run + Mother of Runes / Shizo, Death's Storehouse = Backup 1-shot variants

3. Terror of the Peaks / Twinflame Tyrant + Rite of Replication = 125 stack damage / "My 1/1s hit for 64."

4. Bladewing the Risen + Dragon Tempest + Blade of Selves (3-man+ game) = Infinite stack damage

5. Hellkite Tyrant + Old Gnawbone = Dragon sickness

6. Nicol Bolas + Chandra's Ignition = Cull the lesser, Empty their minds

7. Dragon Broodmother + Yosei, the Morning Star + Teneb, the Harvester = Our turn(s)

8. Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm + Roaming Throne + Junji, the Midnight Sky + Greater Good = 1 hand to rule them all

9. Hellkite Charger + Bear Umbra = "The last War, which will cover all the world in darkness."

10. Worldgorger Dragon + Animate Dead + Dragon Tempest / Terror of the Peaks = Usher in the 4th Age

11. Beledros Witherbloom (used to pitch Terror, Twinflame or Kamigawa dragons) + Wake the Dead = "The Way is shut... and the Dead keep it!"

12. Dragon Tempest (any 'All-Haste') + Living Death / Patriarch's Bidding = "DEATH!" (done 800+ dmg turn 7)

(*this is ALSO my Canadian Highlander/1v1 Commander, which has a separate card sub-out Tribal for Land Burn build; only 6 Dragons needed)

Landy: Sinkhole - Rancid Earth - Raze - Boom / Bust - Cleansing Wildfire - Ice Storm - Stone Rain - Icequake - Thermokarst - Winter's Grasp - Cryoclasm - Molten Rain - Icefall - Pillage - Seismic Spike - Demolish - Rubble Reading - Seismic Shift - Violent Impact - Aftershock - Bramblecrush - Reclaiming Vines - Creeping Mold - Mwonvuli Acid-Moss - Wreak Havoc - Wrecking Ball - Befoul - Song of the Dryads - Temporal Spring - Crosis's Charm - Recoil - Vindicate - Beast Within - Generous Gift - Numot, the Devastator - Strip Mine

Counter/Protection: Stubborn Denial - Negate - Remand - Mana Leak - Dovin's Veto - Deflecting SwatGC - Fierce GuardianshipGC - Giver of Runes - Apostle's Blessing - Shelter - Heroic Intervention - Swords to Plowshares - Path to Exile

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.” the writer J.R.R. Tolkien advises. Our dragons are our fears: our day stalkers, our night sweats.

p.s. We just Rule-0 Mana Crypt around here most of the time for Fat-cmc decks... the RC isn't the same without Sheldon Menery (R.I.P.) #cEDHstandaloneFormat

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Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	30 - 6 Mythic Rares 53 - 8 Rares 9 - 1 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.75
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon 1/1 RG, Dragon 5/5 R, Pest 1/1 BG, Treasure, Zombie Druid 2/2 B
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