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Skanos Dragonheart

Legendary Creature — Dragon Ranger4 generic manaGreen mana

The attack trigger reads the room and adds the largest power it finds, counting other Dragons you control and Dragons rotting in your graveyard as equals. That yard clause is the whole reason the card behaves differently from every tribal lord that came before it. Most tribal payoffs punish attrition: kill the anthem, kill the scaling, and the deck deflates. Here the ceiling survives your losses. A single high-power Dragon that traded away or died to a wrath still feeds every swing, so Skanos keeps hitting hard even as the last body standing on your side. The math rewards top-end density over board width, which flips the usual lord logic on its head: you want a few enormous threats, not a wide swarm, and you don't have to protect them to cash in their stats. The Background slot does the rest of the deckbuilding. Skanos is an aggressive, single-minded clock that wants mana, recursion, or protection it can't supply itself, and the second commander is where that support comes from, letting the Dragon stay pointed at a face while the paired card handles the engine work. It is a two-headed build by construction: one half sets the attack ceiling, the other keeps the pilot alive long enough to swing under it.

Skanos Dragonheart (clb)
CLB · #410uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.25
Foil: $0.19
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever Skanos Dragonheart attacks, it gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the greatest power among other Dragons you control and Dragon cards in your graveyard. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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