Dragons of Tarkir is the 67th Magic expansion, and the third and last in the Khans of Tarkir block. It was released March 27, 2015.[3] Dragons of Tarkir is a large expansion.

Set details [ edit | edit source ]

“ Your Dragon, Their Doom ”

Dragons of Tarkir is designed to be drafted with Fate Reforged but not with Khans of Tarkir.[4] Also, Dragons of Tarkir did not rotate out of Standard with Khans of Tarkir and Fate Reforged, but instead rotated out with Magic Origins due to Standard's regulation changes. To differentiate the drafting experience from Khans of Tarkir / Fate Reforged, Dragons of Tarkir was designed around 5 sets of allied color pairs.[5]

Dragons of Tarkir contains 264 cards (15 basic lands - 5 less than Khans of Tarkir[6] - , 101 commons, 80 uncommons, 53 rares, 15 mythic rares) and includes randomly inserted premium versions [7] of all cards. Like the one from Scourge before, the expansion symbol of Dragons of Tarkir represents a dragon's head. This set is supposed to be the ultimate "dragon set".[8] There are more than twice as many dragons in it than in any other set and they appear in all colors. It also contains many cards that reference Dragons and care about Dragons.[9][10][11]

Each of the five clans known from the previous sets is now integrated with one of the Dragon broods. Only the icons of the broods, first seen in Fate Reforged, appear as watermarks in the text boxes of the cards. The clan symbols have disappeared.[12] The icons have no effect on gameplay.[13] There are several "crossover cards" that present alternate versions of characters and situations from the previous timeline.

Magic Story [ edit | edit source ]

Main article: Magic Story

After Sarkhan Vol has done his duty in the past, the story now returns to the present of Tarkir. But it seems that changing the past has produced some unexpected results.[14] Mighty Dragons now rule the skies and the five clans that comprise most of Tarkir's populace.[15][16] Known characters have an altered fate; Zurgo is just a puny orc and Narset has not died at all, but became a planeswalker instead.

The clans [ edit | edit source ]

Tarkir Dragonfury

Tarkir Dragonfury spindown life counters

Dragons of Tarkir is sold in 16-card boosters (the 16th card being a marketing card), five intro packs, an event deck and a fat pack. The boosters feature art from Dragonlord Atarka, Dragonlord Kolaghan, Icefall Regent, Sarkhan, Unbroken and Narset Transcendent.[17]

The Dragons of Tarkir prerelease took place on March 21–22, 2015. As a special gimmick, each participating store received a Tarkir Dragonfury playing board with character pieces that stand upright on them.[18] The board is a Tarkir landscape, and the pieces can be knocked down by a throw with a special spindown life counter, themed to the breath weapon of one of the five Tarkir dragonlords. Each piece has a point value on it, and the player gets points equal to the total number they knock down. If the die ends up in the central circle, the score is doubled. Every player gets two rolls (resetting the board between each roll). Depending on the highest score, up to four alternate art promotional cards can be won: a land, a common, an uncommon and a rare.

Players choose a clan. Each player receiveds a Seeded Prerelease pack that had everything they needed to build their sealed deck.

Promotional cards [ edit | edit source ]

Tokens, emblems and overlay cards [ edit | edit source ]

Morph / Megamorph overlay card.

The sixteenth card in the boosters can be a token, emblem or overlay card, with an advertisement on the back side.[20] The overlay card can be used on face-down Megamorph cards to remind players of their power and toughness and that it can be turned face-up for its Megamorph cost.[13]

Themes and mechanics [ edit | edit source ]

Obviously, Dragons mattered in this set.[21]

Bolster and Dash returned from Fate Reforged, as the mechanics for the green-white Dromoka and black-red Kolaghan clans, respectively.[13][22]

Rebound was repeated from the Rise of the Eldrazi set, and became the mechanic of the white-blue Ojutai clan.

In addition three new mechanics were featured:[23]

Exploit — When a creature with exploit enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature you control. Each creature with exploit has another ability that gives you a benefit when it "exploits a creature." Exploit is the signature ability of the blue-black Silumgar clan.

Formidable — Creatures with this ability word care in some way about controlling creatures with total power 8 or greater. Formidable is the signature mechanic of the red-green Atarka clan.

Megamorph — This is basically morph with an extra bonus. Turning creatures them face-up by paying their megamorph cost puts a +1/+1 counter on the creature.

Card types [ edit | edit source ]

The set sees the return of the elder type, which is used for the Dragonlords.

Dragons of Tarkir has eleven cycles:

Dragons of Tarkir has one mirrored pair.

Mirrored Pairs Description Hidden Dragonslayer

Silumgar Assassin

Rare creatures with Megamorph that destroys a creature depending on its power when unmorphed.

Reprinted cards [ edit | edit source ]

The following cards have been reprinted from previous sets:

Naturalize, Summit Prowler, Tormenting Voice are first non-basic land cards that are reprinted within the same block in Magic history.

Functional reprints [ edit | edit source ]

Card comparisons [ edit | edit source ]

Notable cards [ edit | edit source ]

Collected Companyis a powerful instant used to make a strong board advantage in creature-based deck in Modern.

Kolaghan's Command is a very versatile instant thanks to its four abilities. It's used mainly in Jund decks in Modern.

Summit Prowler represents the one creature for which the timeline change just didn't really matter — things were still basically the same. The only change in the art is some added Dragons.[26]

Preconstructed decks [ edit | edit source ]

Intro packs [ edit | edit source ]

Dragons of Tarkir has five bicolored intro packs:[27][28]

Event deck [ edit | edit source ]

Dragons of Tarkir has one event deck.[29]