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Scion of the Ur-Dragon

Scion of the Ur-Dragon

Legendary Creature — Dragon Avatar · {W}{U}{B}{R}{G} · Black/Green/Red/Blue/White commander

Flying {2}: Search your library for a Dragon permanent card and put it into your graveyard. If you do, Scion of the Ur-Dragon becomes a copy of that card until end of turn. Then shuffle.
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What Scion of the Ur-Dragon actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Scion of the Ur-Dragon deck needs

Plays as copy engine. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Scion of the Ur-Dragon deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Scion of the Ur-Dragon

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 value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  2. Eternal Witness3 mana
  3. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  4. Baleful Strix2 mana
  5. Knight of the White Orchid2 mana
  6. Spirited Companion2 mana
  7. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  8. Arboreal Grazer1 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Shivan Devastator1 mana
  2. Slumbering Dragon1 mana
  3. Deceptive Frostkite2 mana
  4. Invasion of Tarkir // Defiant Thundermaw2 mana
  5. Korlessa, Scale Singer2 mana
  6. Reckless Barbarian2 mana
  7. Scaled Nurturer2 mana
  8. Sprite Dragon2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Assassin's Trophy2 mana
  2. Path to Exile1 mana
  3. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  4. Reality Shift2 mana
  5. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  6. Pongify1 mana
  7. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  8. Resculpt2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  8. Neoform2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  6. Wrath of God4 mana
  7. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  8. Chain Reaction4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  4. Skullclamp1 mana
  5. Sylvan Library2 mana
  6. Curiosity1 mana
  7. Wizard Class1 mana
  8. Black Market Connections3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  5. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  6. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  7. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  8. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Azorius Signet2 mana
  3. Boros Signet2 mana
  4. Dimir Signet2 mana
  5. Izzet Signet2 mana
  6. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  7. Rakdos Signet2 mana
  8. Golgari Signet2 mana

Combos with Scion of the Ur-Dragon

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Scion of the Ur-Dragon is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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