Pioneer - Dragons! Dragons! Dragons!
Midrange
This is at the time of posting my favourite deck to play.
My usual play is (hopefully a turn one Arboreal Grazer
) into Dragon's Hoard
or Dragonspeaker Shaman
into Rapacious Dragon
into anything.
For some reason opponents rarely remove Dragonspeaker Shaman.
If you have both Dragonspeaker Shaman and Dragon's Hoard in hand, as long as Dragon's Hoard won't slow your play, you should always prioritize it over Dragonspeaker Shaman. This won't slow down your most important play (turn 3/4 Terror of the Peaks
or Rapacious Dragon).
Dragon's Hoard's card draw is good to have as soon as possible, and as it's an artifact it's harder to remove than Dragonspeaker Shaman.
One very powerful combo in this deck is Lathliss, Dragon Queen
into Terror of the Peaks.
In some cases this can be done by turn 5 and it drastically affects board state, as the Terror of the Peaks will deal 5 damage to any target for the token that Lathliss, Dragon Queen creates.
Sarkhan the Masterless
, and to a lesser extent Klothys, God of Destiny
and Arboreal Grazer can provide protection from aggro decks.
Keep in mind that without the required devotion, Klothys, God of Destiny isn't a creature and won't trigger the ability of Terror of the Peaks when entering the battlefield.
In games that run long, especcialy when you're up against boardwipes, Dragon's Hoard is your best friend.
However, there are matches where it just sits in your hand.
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For wild card reasons I'm not running as many copies of some cards (Terror of the Peaks for example) as I'd like.
If wildcards (or money/trading for paper players) are no issue for you, you should probably run some Dragonmaster Outcast
s.
It might be worth experimenting with additional sac lands to more consistently provide mana with Klothys, God of Destiny.
I have a positive winrate with the current deck composition, but i might try to make some changes (maybe remove Dragon's Hoard or a Spit Flame
in favor of some cheap ramp cards) for better tempo.
I might ditch the Dragonspeaker Shamans in favor of some more all-round ramp cards, which might make Verix Bladewing
or Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
less viable, but will probably improve the deck's overall reliability.
The deck used to include Sarkhan's Unsealing
, which won me a lot of games, but was also sometimes too expensive. Might be viable in a more ramp oriented variation.
I'm still figuring out how Domri, Chaos Bringer
performs in this deck, sofar (about four games playing it), the card has been useful.
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Created: 11 Aug 2020
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Also Glorybringer seems great and has an (almost) immediate effect. It looks to be a more mana friendly version of Drakuseth.
I'm still quite successful with this deck, maybe it's a timezone thing? (different places, different deck preferences)
I'd like to read if you find something that works for you.
I'm considering cutting Drakuseth, as it's a bit underwhelming without haste. It's in my deck as a holdover from when i still ran Sarkhan's Unsealing.
Maybe add 3 mana Domri or another ramp oriented planeswalker. It speeds up the deck and pairs well with Sarkhan.
A planeswalker comes with the added benefit of opponents attacking it when they should be attacking you, which might buy some time.
What are the decks you've been losing to?