{"ops":[{"insert":"Congratulations, you found yet another Frankenstein list of someone slowly blinging out their Ur-Dragon deck. I've written this description mostly as recommendations based on my own experience, but bear in mind that I'm not anyone of note. I'm just a guy who likes big lizards and plays a lot of Magic.\n\nOf note:\nTiamat is an incredible tutor for Ur-Dragon decks. Being able to find five of your big fellas creates an imminent threat that your opponents will have to respond to."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Miirym is good enough on its own as a commander - here it becomes very much a \"win more\" card (let's be honest - the whole deck is \"win more\"). It's definitely best to cheat it out if possible, then immediately follow up with something like Terror or Stormscale for immediate ETB value, which I go over in the big bomb combo below. Importantly, Miirym creates "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"non-legendary copies"},{"insert":" of whatever you play after it, so you can get ridiculous value from cards like Ureni or Velomachus."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Colossal Grave-Reaver is such a stupidly good card. If you manage to get it on the board, protect it at all costs. Free recursion is just good."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"I like Bladewing the Risen here better than reanimation instants/sorceries because 1) dragon and 2) synergizes with ETB multipliers like Miirym and Terror."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Early Game:"},{"insert":"\nRAMP. Your ideal opening hand will have 3-4 lands, a ramp piece like Scaled Nurturer or Bloom Tender, and a mid-game threat like Nicol Bolas, the Ravager. Your dragons may be cheaper, but they are all still inherently expensive. My version of the list here runs quite a few board wipes, but that's largely due to the pod I regularly play in. You can substitute Wrath or Day of Judgment for more early interaction if that suits you, but I'll freely admit this deck is vulnerable to decks that go wide.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Mid Game:"},{"insert":"\nBy this point, you should be able to play threats that would normally show up later in the game. These are cards like Colossal Grave-Reaver or Ureni of the Unwritten that generate more value the longer they're left alone and require attention. Continue to ramp in the background until you can reliably get to about 8-9 mana with at least 2 sources of both red and black.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Late Game:"},{"insert":"\nYou should now be ready to close out the game with one of the several massive threats in this deck like the Ultimatums or Ur-Dragon itself. You have recursion options like Bladewing to return previous threats back to the board as well. Now card draw will be your best friend, so things like Winternight Stories or any other draw pieces you want to substitute in will work best. You also have plenty of options for finishers with combos involving Terror of the Peaks or Dracogenesis. See below.\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"The Dracogenesis Bomb:"},{"insert":"\nIf your table lets you resolve Dracogenesis, there's a 95% chance you've won the game then and there. If the stars align and you have both Dracogenesis AND Tiamat in hand, go off. This is my personal favorite way to close out a game because of how ridiculous it gets, but this is a scenario in which your opponents truly have no interaction left that will matter. Even though it may not be the most optimized, it satisfies the Big Number Feel Good itch.\nPlay Dracogenesis."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Play Tiamat for 0. Fetch Stormscale Scion, Terror of the Peaks, Earthquake Dragon, either Twinflame Tyrant or Neriv, Heart of the Storm (Twinflame is safer), and Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Play Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Play Terror of the Peaks. This creates a Terror copy that gives you 1 ETB trigger from the original Terror, so that's 5 damage you can throw somewhere to start off."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Play Twinflame Tyrant or Neriv, Heart of the Storm. For this example, let's assume Twinflame. Because Twinflame's damage doubling is a replacement effect, they stack multiplicatively, meaning every Terror ETB trigger is dealing 4x damage. For the first Twinflame entry, you'll do 6 damage twice, then the second one deals 12 damage twice."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Play Stormscale Scion. This is the truly silly part. Because you've played 5 spells prior to this (assuming you started with Dracogenesis and nothing else), you get 5 Storm triggers, making 5 more Stormscale Scions. Importantly, they each enter one at a time, so you get two Terror ETB triggers with an escalating +1 damage each time, then multiplied by 4. And, because you have Miirym on the board, the Scion plus it 5 Storm copies get copied another 6 times, resulting in 12 Stormscale Scions. Assuming all of these triggers are going to the same target for simplicity's sake, each Stormscale entering will do this much damage in order: 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96, 104, 112, and 120, for a blistering 912 damage by playing Stormscale with this board state. But wait, there's more."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"If by some miracle someone is still alive at this point, here's your finisher. Play Earthquake Dragon. With base 10 power plus the 12 Stormscales putting it 22 power, with two doublers on the field making it 88 damage and two Terrors to trigger, that's 176 damage from playing Earthquake. Now Miirym makes another, so you do it again for a total of 352 damage."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Congratulations, you've dealt 1,305 damage in one turn."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"}]}