Whenever one or more Dragons you control deal combat damage to a player or battle, look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. You may return one of those Dragons to its owner's hand.
Deploy Zurgo and Ojutai as an evasive, hasty threat that swings turn one off the battlefield with built-in protection, then beat down with a wide Dragon team. Every combat where your Dragons connect digs three deep for card advantage, and bouncing your own Dragons lets you re-use enters-the-battlefield effects for extra value. You grind opponents out with flying beaters while refilling your hand each turn.
Immediate, evasive haste threat with hexproof the turn it enters, dodging targeted removal
Generates repeatable card advantage every combat step you connect
Self-bounce clause recycles Dragon ETB triggers for engine value
Jeskai gives access to premium removal, counterspells, and protection
Dragon tribal has deep, powerful support and high baseline stats
Loses hexproof the moment a turn passes, so board wipes and sorcery-speed removal still answer it
Trigger requires combat damage to connect, so blockers and fog effects slow the engine
Dragons are mana-hungry; without ramp the curve is clunky
Three colors strain the manabase and create more painlands/tapped lands
Bouncing your own Dragons can stall the board against go-wide opponents
Doubles down on token generation and turns your bounced Dragons into card and board advantage.
Tighten the manabase with fetches, duals, and fast ramp like Arcane Signet, Smothering Tithe, and Sol Ring so your Dragons land ahead of curve. Add efficient protection and interaction—Swords to Plowshares, Counterspell, Teferi's Protection—to keep the engine online through wraths. Lean into payoffs like Terror of the Peaks, Goldspan Dragon, and Crux of Fate (one-sided wipe) to convert your tribal density into faster, more resilient wins.
Legendary Creature — Orc Dragon
