Scion Semi-Competitive

Commander / EDH Competitive

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Land (36)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• 2x Island
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plains
• 1x Prairie Stream
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (8)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dragon's Hoard
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Creature (25)

• 1x Atarka, World Render
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Dragonlord Dromoka
• 1x Dragonlord Kolaghan
• 1x Dragonlord Ojutai
• 1x Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Hellkite Tyrant
• 1x Lathliss, Dragon Queen
• 1x Moltensteel Dragon
• 1x Niv-Mizzet, Dracogenius
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Savage Ventmaw
• 1x Scourge of the Throne
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Silumgar, the Drifting Death
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
• 1x Spellbound Dragon
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid
• 1x Thrasios, Triton Hero
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Worldgorger Dragon
• 1x Xenagos, God of Revels

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Abundance
• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Dragon Tempest
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Temur Ascendancy

Commander (1)

Instant (10)

• 1x Ancient Excavation
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Utter End

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Treasured Find

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Sarkhan, Fireblood

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Sorcery (1)

• 1x Gaea's Bounty

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This is the deck I bring out when the table gets all spikey and I need to bring the beatdown. It's not friendly. It's not "hey, let's just have some fun." It's "someone is going home in an ambulance tonight." Well, it could be worse. I'm not playing stacks.

I spent a while developing this, but suggestions are always welcome (as long as it's not just a shopping list of $20+ cards).

The main strategy is to hit 7 mana as fast as possible. With 7 you can cast Scion and leave up two for a defensive transformation to then wreck the board next turn. Or, with one of the decks 5 sources of haste, you can go to town as soon as she hits the table and get that graveyard good and full to then Living Death for the win. That being said, you have plenty of other chunky options for beating face, some of which also reanimate.

There's a few ways to combo win if you have to. Aggravated Assault + Savage Ventmaw Will get you infinite combat steps, provided Ventmaw can attack each time. Animate Dead + Worldgorger Dragon will net you infinite mana, and infinite ETB triggers. This can be turned into infinite card draw and infinite damage a number of ways. How nice that once you have Animate Dead you can tutor the other pieces with Scion, or Final Parting can get you both pieces in one go.

There's plenty of ways to double damage and gain extra combat steps too. The rest is just removal and ways to protect your dragons. It's not the most complex strategy, but it's fast, it's fun, and it's effective.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Animate Dead + Worldgorger Dragon Aggravated Assault + Savage Ventmaw
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.70
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Dragon 5/5 R, Dragon 6/6 R