How to Train Your Ur-Dragon

Commander / EDH*

Lilbub

Land (37)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 2x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hallowed Fountain
• 1x Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 2x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Creature (33)

• 1x Ancient Brass Dragon
• 1x Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1x Ancient Silver Dragon
• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 1x Earthquake Dragon
• 1x Esika, God of the Tree  ^Flip
• 1x Faeburrow Elder
• 1x Ganax, Astral Hunter
• 1x Goldspan Dragon
• 1x Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
• 1x Morophon, the Boundless
• 1x Nicol Bolas, the Ravager  ^Flip
• 1x Old Gnawbone
• 1x Ramos, Dragon Engine
• 1x Renari, Merchant of Marvels
• 1x Scion of Draco
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Sunscorch Regent
• 1x Terror of the Peaks
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Wrathful Red Dragon

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Steely Resolve
• 1x Temur Ascendancy

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Akroma's Will
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Negate
• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Farewell
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Majestic Genesis
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Three Visits

Artifact (5)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dragon's Hoard
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Jade Orb of Dragonkind
• 1x Sol Ring

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Creature (11)

• 1x Dromoka, the Eternal
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Glorybringer
• 1x Hellkite Courser
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Lathliss, Dragon Queen
• 1x Piru, the Volatile
• 1x Scion of the Ur-Dragon
• 1x Shadrix Silverquill
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Teneb, the Harvester

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Haunting Voyage
• 1x Ruinous Ultimatum

Artifact (1)

• 1x Fist of Suns

Instant (1)

• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Sarkhan Unbroken

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Welcome to The Ur-Dragon fellow dragon trainers! This list is not optimized for competitive play but can hold it's own against most decks you'll find at your kitchen table or lgs.

Why play The Ur-Dragon?

The answer to that question varies but for me it's because dragons are sweet and having access to all colors makes the deck adaptable. I've played this deck for years and it has changed a lot since I made my initial build. You can play control, superfriends, stompy or all of them at the same time. If that sounds good to you then stick around.

The Big Dumb

Part of what makes this deck fun for me is slamming big creatures like Utvara Hellkite, Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund, Balefire Dragon or even The Ur-Dragon and forcing a reaction from the rest of the table. Sometimes you even get a free cast of Progenitus from a Ur-dragon trigger or a Quicksilver Amulet and chaos ensues. Generally, this is the main focus of this version of the deck and is also the win condition in most cases. Play enough big dumb to kill people through combat damage.

Some of the most notable beaters include Atarka, World Render, Scourge of the Throne, Territorial Hellkite, Dromoka, the Eternal and sometimes Sunscorch Regent.

The Bin

Dragons have a tendency to end up in the bin because people don't appreciate getting beat up apparently. We will combat this by running cards like Journey to Eternity  , Patriarch's Bidding and Living Death. This becomes very powerful if you also have a haste enabler like Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund, Dragonlord Kolaghan, Dragon Tempest or Temur Ascendancy on the board. We also run some counterspells to protect us from board wipes but feel free to include cards like Teferi's Protection if you have a copy.

The Walkers

My playgroup plays lots of walkers for fun more than anything else and here is where you could change up the deck the most. I do reccomend playing cards like Sarkhan, Fireblood, Garruk, Caller of Beasts and Ugin, the Spirit Dragon if you have one.

The Part Everyone Loves, the Lands!

As you may have noticed, this deck is five colors, which comes with a five color mana base. Generally speaking this is the most expensive part of the deck for the least amount of fun gameplay it comes with, but is quite necessary for your overall enjoyment. You don't have to have expensive fetches but being able to play lands that don't enter tapped or that can fix your colors is key. If you're on a budget you can play cards like Terramorphic Expanse, slowfetches like Bad River and pain lands like Battlefield Forge. If you're not on a budget you can add original duals or more fetches if you like to shuffle your library every turn.

The Gameplay

Your early game resolves around ramping, for the most part. Sometimes you can cast early drops like Boneyard Scourge and Territorial Hellkite to keep the pressure high but your chances of winning are reduced quite significantly unless you can get to five mana quite fast to cast your 6-drops, which we have many of. Throughout the course of the game you will be the target of single target removal or board wipes so be wary of overextending unless you have protection spells in your hand. You oftenly will not be able to use The Ur-Dragon more than once or twice so make it count before the casting cost gets too high. You can however snap it back into play using Fist of Suns if that is the case.

I hope you enjoyed this quick overview of the deck and if you have any questions regarding card choices, feel free to comment down below.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	23 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.46
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon 6/6 R, Treasure