Monkey D. Dragon, Revolutionary

Commander / EDH Mono-Red

jamesmac42

Creature (31)

• 1x Academy Manufactor
• 1x Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1x Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
• 1x Bothersome Quasit
• 1x Captain Lannery Storm
• 1x Coercive Recruiter
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Dualcaster Mage
• 1x Flamekin Herald
• 1x Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
• 1x Ganax, Astral Hunter
• 1x Goldspan Dragon
• 1x Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• 1x Magus of the Wheel
• 1x Patron of the Arts
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Rapacious Dragon
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stirring Bard
• 1x Swashbuckler Extraordinaire
• 1x Terror of the Peaks
• 1x Thunderbreak Regent
• 1x Vengeful Ancestor
• 1x Wrathful Red Dragon
• 1x Xorn

Artifact (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind
• 1x Commander's Plate
• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Embercleave
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Ruby Medallion
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Two-Handed Axe
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Instant (11)

• 1x Abrade
• 1x Big Score
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Comet Storm
• 1x Fork
• 1x Lightning Bolt
• 1x Reiterate
• 1x Unexpected Windfall
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Wild Magic Surge
• 1x Wyll's Reversal

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip
• 1x Guild Artisan
• 1x Rain of Riches
• 1x Underworld BreachGC

Commander (1)

Land (31)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Forgotten Cave
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^{Flip  Meld}
• 21x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
• 1x War Room

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Coronation of Chaos
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x GambleGC
• 1x Glimpse of Tomorrow
• 1x Jeska's WillGC
• 1x Seize the Spoils
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Spectacular Showdown
• 1x Wheel of Fate

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Creature (6)

• 1x Bloodboil Sorcerer
• 1x Bonecrusher Giant
• 1x Dragon Mage
• 1x Lathliss, Dragon Queen
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Young Red Dragon

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Descent into Avernus
• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Shiny Impetus

Instant (2)

• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Heat Shimmer
• 1x Twinflame
• 1x Vandalblast

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Chandra, Torch of Defiance

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Inherit the Will of D(ragons) with Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer!

Plan A – Turn things sideways

Ramp early game with Ragavan and begin amassing a large amount of treasures. Curve into dragons and bonk your opponents until they’re dead. Magda, Brazen Outlaw + Ancient Copper Dragon is oodles of fun! This is the most optimal and fun way to play this deck.

Plan B – Combo wins

• Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Coercive Recruiter basically allows you to Insurrection the whole board every single turn, in the event that you don’t outright win after resolving the combo.

• Jeska's Will + Reiterate generates infinite mana. Adding Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer to the mix lets you impulse “draw” your entire library without actually decking yourself.

• Twinflame and Heat Shimmer aren’t in the deck, but those two make infinite hasty 2/2s with Dualcaster Mage.

Plan C – Commander damage!

Despite sharing its base power and toughness with Savannah Lions, it is feasible to connect 21 points of damage with Ragavan. Forge of Heroes, Opal Palace, Commander's Plate and various double strike and unblockable effects in the deck can help facilitate this.

Plan D – Sheer luck

Gemstone Caverns in the opening hand is the only way to dash in Ragavan on T1. Although this deck doesn’t heavily lean into his other ability, I have managed to cast very impactful things from my opponents’ libraries.

Spells like an overloaded Spectacular Showdown might not facilitate a win, but they’ll certainly help close out a game.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.28
Tokens	Clue, Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Dungeon: Undercity, Eldrazi Horror 3/2 C, Food, Goblin Shaman, On an Adventure, Skeleton 4/1 B, The Initiative, Treasure
Folders	James’ decklists