Dragons of Middle-Earth (A LotR Tribute)

Commander / EDH Aggro Battlecruiser Competitive Dragons Flying Haste Reanimator

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Land (31)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Reanimate (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Teneb, the Harvester

Tokens (2)

• 1x Dragon Broodmother
• 1x Utvara Hellkite

Ramp (16)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Coalition Relic
• 1x Dragon's Hoard
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Three Visits

Removal (10)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Despark
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Supreme Verdict
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Wasteland

Draw (7)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Dragonlord Ojutai
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Knollspine Dragon
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x The Ur-Dragon

Haste (5)

• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Slayers' Stronghold

Tutor (2)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Protection (9)

• 1x Collective Restraint
• 1x Dovin's Veto
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Negate
• 1x Scalelord Reckoner
• 1x Silumgar, the Drifting Death
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Yavimaya Hollow

Overrun (6)

• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Ojutai, Soul of Winter
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Terror of the Peaks

Tricks (5)

• 1x Dragonlord Silumgar
• 1x Kaalia of the Vast
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Selvala's Stampede
• 1x Yosei, the Morning Star

Sideboard (10)

• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Bladewing the Risen
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Moltensteel Dragon
• 1x Nicol Bolas
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Waves of Aggression

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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 - My 3rd EDH deck I ever built, still kicking ass as my favorite Tribe after all these years! 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

Sol Ring - Frodo Baggins holding The One Ring

Arcane Signet - Gandalf wearing Narya

Vampiric Tutor - Saruman gazing into his Palantir

Demonic Tutor - Aragorn confronting the King of the Oathbreakers

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

Bloom Tender - Arwen Undomiel

Faeburrow Elder - Treebeard carrying Merry & Pippen

Coalition Relic - Samwise holding the Phial of Eärendil

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

Pernicious Deed - Gollum

Feldon of the Third Path - Gimli

Eternal Witness - Legolas

Oracle of Mul Daya - Galadriel

Greater Good - Elrond at the Battle of Dagorlad

Patriarch's Bidding - Sauron

Balefire Dragon - Smaug

Bayou - Yoda with cane outside Dagobah cave

Scrubland - The Ivory Tower from Neverending Story

Taiga - Snow-capped Geiranger Fjord in Norway

Tropical Island - Hawaiian coast with waterfall

Yavimaya Hollow - Rainforest glade w/waterfall

Blade of Selves - The Four Sword (from Zelda)

Sensei's Divining Top - floating on a Lily pad in a Koi pond, Black Lotus sitting beside it

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

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

Collective Restraint - Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell series)

Scalelord Reckoner - Haku (Spirited Away)

Atarka, World Render - Alduin (Skyrim)

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

Silumgar, the Drifting Death - Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon)

Combos of Note:

1. Moltensteel Dragon + Atarka, World Render (or Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon ) = 1-shot (avoiding a Krosan Grip ;) )

2. Bladewing the Risen + Terror of the Peaks + Blade of Selves (3-man+ game)

3. Kokusho, the Evening Star + Feldon of the Third Path

4. (*similar) Dragon Broodmother + Yosei, the Morning Star + Teneb, the Harvester

5. Rite of Replication becomes 'Power Overwhelming' with Balefire Dragon OR Utvara Hellkite (Knollspine Dragon for ALL the Draw!)

6. Ilharg, the Raze-Boar + Dragonlord Silumgar + Greater Good

7. Waves of Aggression (harder to stop than Aggravated Assault) + Bear Umbra + Dragonlord Ojutai OR The Ur-Dragon to draw the Land.

8. Dragon Tempest or other 'All-Haste' + Living Death OR Patriarch's Bidding = OVERKILL! (have easily done 800+ dmg by turn 7)

The Shocklands form a Panorama: Steam Vents - Sacred Foundry - Godless Shrine - Overgrown Tomb - Breeding Pool - Hallowed Fountain - Temple Garden - Stomping Ground - Blood Crypt - Watery Grave

(*this is ALSO my Canadian Highlander/1v1 Commander, which has a separate 30 card sub-out Tribal for Land Burn build)

Landy: Ice Storm - Reap and Sow - Bramblecrush - Reclaiming Vines - Creeping Mold - Mwonvuli Acid-Moss - Stone Rain - Icefall - Pillage - Seismic Spike - Wreak Havoc - Wrecking Ball - Befoul - Song of the Dryads - Temporal Spring - Crosis's Charm - Recoil - Vindicate - Seismic Shift - Beast Within - Generous Gift - Numot, the Devastator

Counter/Protection/Rez: Arcane Denial - Delay - Remand - Memory Lapse - Countersquall - Izzet Charm - Giver of Runes - Apostle's Blessing - Shelter - Heroic Intervention - Swords to Plowshares - Path to Exile - Necromancy - Exhume - Lim-Dul's Vault - Entomb

“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.

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Date added	3 years
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	18 - 2 Mythic Rares 60 - 8 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.73
Tokens	Copy Clone, 1/1 Dragon, 6/6 Dragon
Folders	Permanent Posse, Scion Ideas, EDH