[Deck] Survival Dragon

[Avenged Sevenfold]

Use Survival of The fittest to get your WGD and friends into graveyard. Animate and win! I dont find colourless mana usefull in this deck. There are 16 creatures you can survival with(Including the EGS in the mana source) so the combo goes off pretty quickly.

4 Worldgorger Dragon
3 Squee, Goblin Nabob

1 Ambassador Laquatus
1 Sliver Queen

3 Verdant Force

4 Xantid Swarm
4 Duress

4 Survival of the fitest
4 Bazaar of Baghdad

1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor

3 Animate Dead
2 Dance of the Dead
3 Necromancy

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Bayou
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Llanowar Wastes
5 Forest
2 Swamp

[Tempe]

If Survival of the Fittest is not being used as an engine, then its only purpose is to put creatures into the graveyard, correct? For the cost you are going to be using Survival at (1GG at least), You can use Buried Alive and get all of the creatures you want in the graveyard. It also doesn't require you to play a mana intensive enchantment.

Yes, Survival helps find a Xantid Swarm if you really need it, but relying on the Bazaar draw engine is much more powerful. You will never have enough mana to use a functional Survival Engine, as most of your energy is going into the Bazaar Engine and trying to go off.

--Tempe

[Smash]

You are basically replacing compulsion with survival.

It has some benefits, like turning any creature into what you want. But given a random swarm in your hand, it takes GG to get a dragon, then dump it in the yard. Still, compulsion is 1U to dump anything in the yard, but you need it in your hand to begin with.

The list overall is nice... I am just trying to think of when I would rather have compulsion and vice versa. Both have their moments.

[Ifflejink]

This is a good deck, but only in it's budget version by budget standards. It's really nice as a budget deck, and Survival is a very good engine, plus it helps the control matchup. But, if you're going to pay the money for power, play a u/b Dragon variant rather than this version..

[Arvid]

Is this deck better than the mono B powerless version w. Dark Rituals and Buried Alive?

[Daniel_112]

I think it is. It has got more disruption in the form of duress AND xantid swarm. And I do think it wins before your opp does. I really love the survival engine and the ESP's.

[RoadTrippin]

I think it is. It has got more disruption in the form of duress AND xantid swarm. And I do think it wins before your opp does. I really love the survival engine and the ESP's.

The "monoblack" version does run Xantid swarms because you aren't losing consistency with the manabase at all- you're just replacing 4 swamps with bayous. This deck is not better than those using Buried Alive over SotF when Bazaar is involved as well. Why on earth would monoblack dragon not use Duress?

[Daniel_112]

I didn't know that the mono black version runs xantid swarms. But I think I'm just in love with survival of the fittest. Maybe is monoblack stronger because you have the dark ritual as extra acceleration.

[RoadTrippin]

Yes. Keep in mind, though, that that's only if you have Bazaars readily available.

[mask]

dance of the dead is a stronger card over both animate dead and nercormancy, try to play as many as possible becuase in dragon, your next upkeep shouldn;t happen. one card to consider is recurring nightmare, if you drop a verdant force or queen in play, with recurring you can stack your permenants too.

one Ambassador and one sliver queen, i think two ambassador would be more constist deck, becuase with queen though that adds an extra turn in which they have to respond to you. with ambassador they get till thier upkeep. i would recommond cutting a squee for it.

Also Consider Cabal therapy, espically since recurisoin isn;t a problem, flashback is good, if is additional defense against other combo decks, and is effective against control. you will have times where you havea bunch of 1/1s, and with bazaar you discard one of these and flash back without spending mana on it.

1 or 2 squee is all that is needed for it presense to be felt same with verdant force. what happens if you don;t get your 6 ways to fetch survival, these are just too much of a dead draw. or your bazaars. granted you might want those squees for the bazaars, but you also want to stack your graveyard.

xantid swarm, 4 is awesome, but since you are running survial you can cut the fat down to 3.

i like survial too =), and nice deck design a lot potenial for a more constist to combo out, although i think it loses speed to U/B

[Avenged Sevenfold]

Although blue outspeeds this deck, this is more fun to play.  And sometimes Survival works better than compulsion as compulsion you need 1U to dump a card and its not always a WGD and Friends. Witrh survival you get rid of one for an other for an other. Compulsion does however grab counterspells and such, leaving (IMO) compulsion and survival equal in this sort of build.