At a glance
- Format: Brawl (100-card)
- Commander: Sarkhan Unbroken
- Colors: Green / Blue / Red (GUR)
- Archetype: Temur dragons ramp/midrange
- Power tier: competitive
- Competitive Brawl: ✅ Legal
Strategy
Ramp and fix on turns 1-3 (dorks, land ramp, owned rocks), then chain dragons from turn 4 while holding up counters and burn. Sarkhan Unbroken is the engine: +1 draws a card AND makes a mana of any color (ramp + fixing + card advantage every turn), -2 makes a 4/4 flying Dragon token, and the ult tutors your dragon top-end into play. Cost reducers (Dragonlord’s Servant, Dragonspeaker Shaman, Herald’s Horn) drop the fatties a turn early; Temur Ascendancy gives the squad haste and draws a card off nearly every dragon (all power 4+); Scourge of Valkas and Terror of the Peaks turn each dragon into direct damage; Dragon’s Hoard refills. Interaction is deep and mostly owned (Counterspell, Essence Scatter, An Offer, Negate, plus red burn) so you never just durdle. Close with evasive haste beaters (Glorybringer, Stormbreath, Skarrgan Hellkite), value engines (Bonehoard Dracosaur, Goldspan Dragon ramp), or an Ureni ETB board wipe.
Upgrade path
LAND REVAMP 2026-07-11: manabase rebuilt to kill taplands (cut guildgates/temples/gainlands); now runs shock + verge (+painland in Brawl) untapped duals + basics. Land crafts this pass: Riverpyre Verge, Thornspire Verge, Willowrush Verge, Yavimaya Coast. NEW BUILD 2026-07-11 around Sarkhan Unbroken (mythic craft commander, GUR). BUDGET VERSION (Mik chose to trim from the 19-mythic best-in-slot list). Target ~7 mythic crafts; owned dragons + cheap common/uncommon fillers carry the dragon density for tribal payoffs. COMPETITIVE tier so the gate allows mythics; non-owned rares are in approved_rares. MYTHIC CRAFTS (7): Sarkhan Unbroken (commander), Goldspan Dragon, Terror of the Peaks, Bonehoard Dracosaur, Stormbreath Dragon, Skarrgan Hellkite, Atsushi the Blazing Sky. RARE CRAFTS (6, approved): Temur Ascendancy, Dragon’s Hoard, Thunderbreak Regent, Glorybringer, Scourge of Valkas, Miirym Sentinel Wyrm. OWNED (free): Mirrorwing Dragon, Niv-Mizzet Visionary, Kairi the Swirling Sky, Ureni the Song Unending (all owned mythics), Siege Dragon + Ran and Shaw (owned rares), Nebula/Shivan/Volcanic/Dragonfly (owned commons/uncs), Ral Crackling Wit, Arcane Signet, Llanowar Elves, Mind Stone, Ornithopter of Paradise, and the owned interaction + manabase. CHEAP CRAFTS: counters (Counterspell), burn (Lightning Bolt, Dragon’s Fire), ramp (Paradise Druid, Farseek, Cultivate, Migration Path, Springbloom Druid, Rampant Growth), and 12 filler dragons (Sprite Dragon, Korlessa, Archive Dragon, Furnace Hellkite, Dragon Mage, Rapacious Dragon, Dracosaur Auxiliary, Hoarding Dragon, Skanos, Warriors of Tiamat, Sparktongue Dragon, Furnace Whelp). LANDMINES avoided (legal_brawl=0): Dragon Tempest, Sarkhan’s Triumph, Path of Ancestry, Sakura-Tribe Elder, Sol Ring. UPGRADE PATH (as wildcards allow): re-add the cut mythics — Sarkhan Fireblood, Sarkhan Dragonsoul, Old Gnawbone, Ureni of the Unwritten, Dragonlord Atarka, Iymrith, Galazeth, Manaform Hellkite, Verix Bladewing, Moonveil Regent, Incinerator, Shivan Devastator — plus rares Ketria Triome, Kindred Discovery, Sarkhan’s Unsealing, Three Steps Ahead, Lathliss Dragon Queen, and swap filler dragons out as you craft the reals.
Cards
Decklist
Paste straight into MTG Arena (or Moxfield/Archidekt):
Commander
1 Sarkhan Unbroken
Deck
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Paradise Druid
1 Arcane Signet
1 Mind Stone
1 Ornithopter of Paradise
1 Springbloom Druid
1 Rampant Growth
1 Farseek
1 Cultivate
1 Migration Path
1 Dragon's Hoard
1 Dragonlord's Servant
1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
1 Herald's Horn
1 Temur Ascendancy
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Essence Scatter
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Negate
1 Spell Pierce
1 Counterspell
1 Abrade
1 Torch the Tower
1 Fiery Annihilation
1 Bumi Bash
1 Dragon's Fire
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Big Score
1 Seize the Spoils
1 Cerebral Download
1 Ral, Crackling Wit
1 Sprite Dragon
1 Korlessa, Scale Singer
1 Archive Dragon
1 Furnace Hellkite
1 Dragon Mage
1 Rapacious Dragon
1 Dracosaur Auxiliary
1 Hoarding Dragon
1 Skanos, Dragon Vassal
1 Warriors of Tiamat
1 Sparktongue Dragon
1 Furnace Whelp
1 Thunderbreak Regent
1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
1 Mirrorwing Dragon
1 Ran and Shaw
1 Goldspan Dragon
1 Glorybringer
1 Stormbreath Dragon
1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
1 Terror of the Peaks
1 Skarrgan Hellkite
1 Scourge of Valkas
1 Kairi, the Swirling Sky
1 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
1 Siege Dragon
1 Volcanic Dragon
1 Shivan Dragon
1 Dragonfly Swarm
1 Nebula Dragon
1 Ureni, the Song Unending
1 Command Tower
1 Breeding Pool
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Dreamroot Cascade
1 Conduit Pylons
1 Capital City
1 Thornspire Verge
1 Willowrush Verge
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Riverpyre Verge
3 Forest
14 Mountain
6 Island
1 Frontier Bivouac
1 Rogue's Passage
Ideal build (upgrade target)
Ideal maxes dragon density and quality: every premium GUR dragon (Old Gnawbone, Dragonlord Atarka, Ureni of the Unwritten, Terror of the Peaks, Bonehoard Dracosaur, Goldspan, Skarrgan Hellkite, Manaform Hellkite, Shivan Devastator) plus all three Sarkhan planeswalkers as cost-reduction/card engines, and payoff enchantments (Sarkhan’s Unsealing, Kindred Discovery, Temur Ascendancy) that snowball each dragon. The Great Henge + Beast Whisperer + Guardian Project turn the fatties into a card-advantage machine; a tight counter/burn suite keeps you from durdling. Manabase adds Ketria Triome + Cavern of Souls. Top craft priorities: Old Gnawbone (mythic), Dragonlord Atarka (mythic), Terror of the Peaks (mythic), Bonehoard Dracosaur (mythic), Cavern of Souls (mythic) + Ketria Triome (rare).
Crafts to reach the ideal: 22 (13 mythic, 8 rare, 1 uncommon)
- Mythic: Cavern of Souls, Dragonlord Atarka, Galazeth Prismari, Iymrith, Desert Doom, Manaform Hellkite, Moonveil Regent, Old Gnawbone, Sarkhan, Dragonsoul, Sarkhan, Fireblood, Shivan Devastator, The Great Henge, Ureni of the Unwritten, Verix Bladewing
- Rare: Archmage’s Charm, Beast Whisperer, Guardian Project, Ketria Triome, Kindred Discovery, Lathliss, Dragon Queen, Sarkhan the Masterless, Sarkhan’s Unsealing
- Uncommon: Fry
Full ideal list (paste into Arena):
Commander
1 Sarkhan Unbroken
Deck
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Paradise Druid
1 Ornithopter of Paradise
1 Arcane Signet
1 Mind Stone
1 Farseek
1 Cultivate
1 Rampant Growth
1 Springbloom Druid
1 Dragon's Hoard
1 Dragonlord's Servant
1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
1 Herald's Horn
1 Temur Ascendancy
1 Sarkhan's Unsealing
1 Kindred Discovery
1 Goldspan Dragon
1 Terror of the Peaks
1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
1 Stormbreath Dragon
1 Skarrgan Hellkite
1 Glorybringer
1 Thunderbreak Regent
1 Scourge of Valkas
1 Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
1 Kairi, the Swirling Sky
1 Niv-Mizzet, Visionary
1 Ureni, the Song Unending
1 Ureni of the Unwritten
1 Old Gnawbone
1 Dragonlord Atarka
1 Galazeth Prismari
1 Manaform Hellkite
1 Moonveil Regent
1 Shivan Devastator
1 Verix Bladewing
1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
1 Iymrith, Desert Doom
1 Mirrorwing Dragon
1 Siege Dragon
1 Sarkhan, Fireblood
1 Sarkhan, Dragonsoul
1 Sarkhan the Masterless
1 Ral, Crackling Wit
1 Counterspell
1 Archmage's Charm
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Essence Scatter
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Negate
1 Spell Pierce
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Fry
1 Abrade
1 Torch the Tower
1 Fiery Annihilation
1 Dragon's Fire
1 Big Score
1 Cerebral Download
1 The Great Henge
1 Beast Whisperer
1 Guardian Project
1 Command Tower
1 Ketria Triome
1 Breeding Pool
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Rogue's Passage
1 Frontier Bivouac
1 Dreamroot Cascade
1 Thornspire Verge
1 Willowrush Verge
1 Riverpyre Verge
1 Yavimaya Coast
11 Mountain
7 Island
5 Forest
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