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Ramos Dragon Engine

Commander / EDH*

SRJ26


This is the all-in combo build of my Ramos deck, designed to win off of a successful casting of Conflux.

The basic plan is to manage the board until you can get Ramos onto the field with enough counters to remove 5 and make WWUUBBRRGG mana. From there, if you can get Conflux in hand, the path to victory would look something like this.

Hardcast Conflux for 3WUBRG, putting 5 +1/+1 counters on Ramos. Tutor up the following five cards: Cloudshift (W), Maelstrom Wanderer (U), Phyresis (B), Congregation at Dawn (G), Chandra's Ignition (R).

Remove 5 +1/+1 counters, making WWUUBBRRGG mana.

Flicker Ramos with Cloudshift so he becomes a new instance of Ramos and can use his ability again this turn.

Cast Congregation at Dawn, putting Dragonlord Dromoka, Enigma Sphinx and Etherium-Horn Sorcerer on top of your library in that order, with Dromoka on top. Ramos gains 2 +1/+1 counters.

Cast Maelstrom Wanderer for 5URG. This will cascade into Dragonlord Dromoka and Enigma Sphinx. Enigma Sphinx will cascade into Etherium-Horn Sorcerer, which in turn will cascade into something else. Ramos should gain at least 10 or 11 +1/+1 counters.

Remove 5 +1/+1 counters from Ramos, making another WWUUBBRRGG mana.

With Dragonlord Dromoka on the field, our opponents should be locked out of stopping us from winning. We play Phyresis to give Ramos infect. Then we play Chandra's Ignition. If Ramos wasn't at 10 power, those two spells should make him big enough that when he does damage to each of our opponents, they will die from infect damage.

This deck can win games without hitting its weird, convoluted combo. You can use cards like Bioshift and Fate Transfer to give Ramos additional counters at instant speed and you can use Double Cleave to surprise an unsuspecting opponent with double-strike. It's also not hard to make Ramos at least 10 power and swing with Phyresis to kill an opponent without flying or reach blockers.

This is not a partiularly fast deck and might not even be a high powered deck, but it can be a fun ride and hitting the combo is entertaining. I've had opponents tell me they far prefer losing to something different and weird that they'd never seen before than to a 2 card combo like Mike & Trike or even the very on-theme Blightsteel Colossus & Chandra's Ignition.

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Date added 6 years
Last updated 3 months
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

7 - 0 Mythic Rares

33 - 0 Rares

20 - 0 Uncommons

20 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.26
Tokens Ape 3/3 G, Frog Lizard 3/3 G
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