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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 needs
Plays as team haste. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- big creatures and Dragons that profit from haste
The Dragonlord Kolaghan deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 10× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
- 6× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 20× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
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.
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
- Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate3 mana
- Bloodsoaked Champion1 mana
- Captain Lannery Storm3 mana
- Combat Celebrant3 mana
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Predators' Hour2 mana
- Crash Through1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 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
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose3 mana
- Artist's Talent2 mana
- Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei2 mana
- Nightscape Familiar2 mana
- Roiling Vortex2 mana
Combos with Dragonlord Kolaghan
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Dragonlord Kolaghan is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Dragonlord Kolaghan + Breath Of Fury46 decks
- Dragonlord Kolaghan + Breath Of Fury + Bladewing, Deathless Tyrant7 decks
- Dragonlord Kolaghan + Garth One-Eye + Deadeye Navigator5 decks
- Dragonlord Kolaghan + Tortured Existence + Insidious Roots4 decks
- Dragonlord Kolaghan + Breath Of Fury + Ancient Gold Dragon4 decks
- Dragonlord Kolaghan + Selvala, Heart Of The Wilds + Emiel The Blessed4 decks