Dragons of Tarkir

by Jessie on 08 March 2015

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (8 cards)

Creatures (4)

Instants (4)

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Deck Description

Combo deck from new Dragons of Tarkir.

Cards:

Descent of the Dragons
Dragon Tempest

New cards can be found here:

http://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/dragons-of-tarkir-spoiler-limited-review-for-march-6

Descent of the Dragons 4 plus 2 red
Sorcery
Target any amount of creatures. Destroy those creatures.
For each creatures destroyed, its controller puts one 4/4 red dragon token with flying into play

Dragon Tempest 1 plus 1 red
Enchantment
Whenever a with flying enters the battlefield under your control, it gains haste until end of turn.
Whenever a Dragon enters the battlefield under your control, it deals X damage to target player or creature, where X is the number of Dragons you control.

How to Play

Main idea is to very quickly use mana ramp and cat nip cards to Combo into Dragon Tempest and Descent of the Dragon.

Turn 1. Birds of Paradise
Turn 2. Sylvan Caryatid
Turn 3. Dragon Tempest and Hordeling Outburst
Turn 4. Descent of the Dragon OR Voracious Dragon

1st Outcome Turn 4 Descent of the Dragon:
5 4/4 flying haste dragons
25 direct damage to opponent and/or opponent's creatures.
= Potential of 45 damage on Turn 4.

2nd Outcome Turn 4 Voracious Dragon (backup plan) :
7/7 Voracious Dragon with flying and haste
7 direct damage to opponent and/or opponent's creatures.

Deck Tags

  • Dragons
  • of
  • Tarkir
  • Combo

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Not Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Dragons of Tarkir

* Forget Dragonmaster Outcast. You need 6 lands on play to make him work - something you'll rarely archieve, especially when you acceleration is Seeting Song.

* Voracious Dragon should be in this (as long as you keep the Goblin token generators)!

* This deck should be red/green! I mean ... you'd get mana acceleration in the form of CREATUREs that can be targetted with Assault of the Dragons later.

* yes, 25 damage is correct if you put 5 dragons into play. But since they also get haste, you can actually go with less.

* There won't be much room for disruption, anything beyond some Lighting Bolts would dillute the deck. And even they are questionable ... Voracious Dragon and maybe Thundermaw Hellkite.

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Posted 09 March 2015 at 08:55

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Or Blue...what about something like Battlefield Thaumaturge? It would lower Assault mana cost and could provide counter/control aspect of the deck.

I do think you are right with little room for disruption..so speed that green mana ramp would provide might be best.

Thanks!!

I want to post it the first day Dragons of Tarkir is put on mtgvault.

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Posted 09 March 2015 at 15:41

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And going green...and keeping with new cards, Frontier Siege.
Frontier Siege and Assault of the Dragons could be fun.
Or Outpost Siege when the Goblins leave play.

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Posted 10 March 2015 at 00:06

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Don't try to "win more" ... if you manage to produce enough tokens and then Assault/Tempest, then that should already be game. You should concenrate on getting this chain working instead of adding another chain link.

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Posted 10 March 2015 at 00:53

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Jessiiie! I just put together a new standard deck... Was wondering if you'd take a peek at it, yeah? :P

http://www.mtgvault.com/fairemont/decks/fnm-metawrecker/

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Posted 02 April 2015 at 16:25

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im loving dragons atm so I had to build an edh off of them
http://www.mtgvault.com/vaan104/decks/atarka-edh/
ill be trying it out tomorrow but im still short a few cards

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Posted 11 April 2015 at 00:03

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dragon broodmother might be nice

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Posted 11 April 2015 at 02:40

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I just put this together if you could take a look.
http://www.mtgvault.com/vaan104/decks/human-sacrifice/

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Posted 16 April 2015 at 02:35

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4 descent of dragons is a bit much. Maybe take out two of them for a bit more utility?

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Posted 11 April 2015 at 00:18

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Maybe Preyseizer Dragon instead of Voracious Dragon? I do see the benefit of the etb damage on Voracious though, just a thought. Also if you like dragony things check this out and let me know what you think if you'd like:
http://www.mtgvault.com/pain42/decks/draconic-control/

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Posted 11 April 2015 at 04:39

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Great deck Jessie! I've always liked dragons but they always cost too much mana. But you found a way to mana-ramp into them heheh. I am assuming this is not budget, so how about some copperline gorge and stomping grounds?

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Posted 11 April 2015 at 16:15

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Not a bad design! To add another worthwhile dragon, you might look at Savage Ventmaw, Thunderbreak Regent or Foe-Razer Regent. Harbinger of the Hunt isn't too worth it to use but the other 3 have a place here, especially Ventmaw. Otherwise, not bad!

I added some DoT stuff to my deck as well, you might get some worthwhile notes off of. enjoy!
Link: http://www.mtgvault.com/razzan/decks/the-dragon-standard/

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Posted 11 April 2015 at 18:33

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Plus one dragons for days

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Posted 17 April 2015 at 12:22

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GET RID OF Voracious dragon right now! Preyseizer Dragon is MUCH better! I know it cost one more so that might be the only problem. Take this scenario you devour 4 goblins and have a 8/8 voracious that does 8 damage at that step, OR preyseizer dragon becomes a 12/12 and does 8 direct damage every time it attacks. Maybe you are going for a one shot sort of thing so, the preyseizer dragon may not be the best one. Oops just saw that it had already been suggested, well, I still like it better.

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Posted 26 April 2015 at 22:36

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The problem is that it needs to attack in order to deal those 8. See, between cating Preyseizer and attacking with him is an entire turn where your opponent can neutralize him whereas nothing sans a Counterspell or some freak cards like Torpor orb will stop the damage from the Voracious.

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Posted 27 April 2015 at 08:39

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I feel like he would be slow in this deck since you are relying on sorceries to bring out goblins... I feel like you would have to be really late in the game with a lot of tokens for him to get the etb damage to kick really hard. I could see 10 damage being given, and then as you said bam he's dead or he is countered and nothing happens. I don't really know but, I feel like Preyseizer is the more so go big or go home guy.

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Posted 27 April 2015 at 15:06

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A counterspell stops both of them dead, however, if the opponent got any kind of removal (could even be sorcery speed) then the Preyseizer will have dealt zero damage! Also, you don't have to cast it for those big numbers, sometimes you just need 4 damage to kill off a nasty creature in between. Voracious Dragon does so 2 turns quicker (which is an eternity) and for sure.

I don't say Preyseizer is a bad suggestion but he just isn't such an obvious replacement you say he is. It also depends on Jessie's metagame of course - the less removal the opponents run and the slower they are, the more viable Preyseizer becomes.

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Posted 27 April 2015 at 15:41

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You're probably right... for me at least, he has always worked better even if I get one hit off. I guess that is because I usually go against enchantment and life gain or token decks that don't have much control. Also one thing about the sorcery speed, not entirely if you have the dragon's tempest out, he will have haste ( I guess that would require combo of having it out first). I would at least sideboard him for enchantment or life gain decks.

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Posted 27 April 2015 at 15:48

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Okay, you are right about the Tempest - it's just that Tempest wasn't always part of the deck/plan, Jessie pushed cards around alot. I agree that with haste the Preyseizer is very viable. But as you said, that requires a lot - Tempest in play, enough tokens, Preyseizer in hand plus enough mana to fuel all of that. Good catch, though.

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Posted 27 April 2015 at 15:57

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I guess I am so used to casual play that I'm kinda dull to "every turn counts" sort of thing. I do have an amazing goblin deck though, it has been always fun to play and in that deck the Voracious is wayy to big of a cost. I rarely see him used competitively because goblins are too fast for it to be of use or there are usually better dragons. I guess I'll let Voracious have the floor this time ;)

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Posted 27 April 2015 at 16:23

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