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Dragonlord Kolaghan
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon · {4}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander
Flying, haste
Other creatures you control have haste.
Whenever an opponent casts a creature or planeswalker spell with the same name as a card in their graveyard, that player loses 10 life.
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What Dragonlord Kolaghan actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever an opponent casts a creature or planeswalker spell with the same name as a card in their graveyard, that player loses 10 life.
- Static ability · keyword_grantOther creatures you control have haste.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · hastehaste
What a Dragonlord Kolaghan deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 11× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
- 11× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 11× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Dragonlord Kolaghan
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Secret Tunnel0 mana
- Dragon Tempest2 mana
- Crash Through1 mana
- Archetype of Aggression3 mana
- Rhonas's Monument3 mana
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Legion Loyalist1 mana
- Frantic Confrontation1 mana
A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
- Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin3 mana
- Fear of Missing Out2 mana
- Inti, Seneschal of the Sun2 mana
- Valley Rotcaller2 mana
- Etali, Primal Storm6 mana
- Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate3 mana
- Captain Lannery Storm3 mana
- Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki3 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Pashalik Mons3 mana
- Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
- Siege-Gang Lieutenant4 mana
- Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
- Myr Battlesphere7 mana
- Anax, Hardened in the Forge3 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Chandra, Acolyte of Flame3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Dash Hopes2 mana
- Pyroblast1 mana
- Tibalt's Trickery2 mana
- Withering Boon2 mana
- Kozilek, the Great Distortion10 mana
- Not of This World7 mana
- Null Brooch4 mana
- Jester's Scepter3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Do or Die2 mana
- Force of Despair3 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Innocent Blood1 mana
- Breaking Point3 mana
- Coils of the Medusa2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Insatiable Avarice1 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Kederekt Parasite1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana