coolest, flavor on U/R card since niv-mizzet. give it +1/2 just for being cool
Cenelder
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
very nice. Its a good way to get rid of cards that you dont need without feeling that they are completely going to waste.
MasterOfEtherium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Won FNM With Him Death Head Thoctar And Brood Queen Tonight With A Side Of Maelstrom Pulse. It Was Ridiculous
RyuumiGaroukuni
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
This ish a really good card to use... I owned many players using this card... Color Combination of Spellbound Dragon -> Discarding Kederekt Leviathan/Inkwell Leviathan -> Soul's Fire for the win!
yojimbojones
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
It's cards like this that make red/blue my favorite color combination.
Owls_and_More_Owls
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Awesome, awesome card. Flavorfully, I think it should have been an artifact creature, but that may have been too broken.
Clefaria
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Agent1103: Where's the combo with Magma Phoenix? Its ability doesn't trigger if it's discarded.
SoulReaverDan
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Clefaria: You can continue to bounce the card back to your hand, meaning you'll always have a reliable card to discard without it being totally lost. That way you can always have one to play and one to discard.
Agent1103
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
THE combo with this card is Magma Phoenix. Along with Darksteel Colossus, Spellbound Dragon has some massive damage potential. There are several other cards in current Standard with unearth that allows Spellbound Dragon to be used to maximum potential while maintaining the utility of the cards discarded. For example, Scourge Devil has a high casting cost, giving Spellbound Dragon +5P, but a lower unearth cost and a nice come into play ability, giving all creatures +1/+0 until end of turn. After all is said and done, b*tch slap your opponent with Soul's Fire for the coup de grâce.
Edit: Celfaria, I never said anything about Magma Phoenix's ability triggering, I was referring to the ability to bring it back from the grave. You discard it, and you don't have to lose card advantage.
Gwafa_Hazid
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Agent1103
I'd personally prefer to use it with Squee, Goblin Nabob than with Magma Phoenix. Gives you a free card every turn, plus a guaranteed 6/5 swinging every turn, with the opportunity to increase it's power if that becomes advantageous.
I like to run a few of these in a Jhoira suspension deck, as having these guys makes good use of those high cmc spells/creatures that you can't use too well if Jhoira isn't showing her face. Added fun if you discard an expensive card and then play Soul's Fire.
ToidiDiPuts
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You're both wrong. The combo with this card is Gleemax. (That is, if you don't mind using un-sets.)
plus, the Soul's Fire can always be used if the dragon's blocked or banished.
Tiplady
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You're all missing the use of Dark Withering, +6P and for 1 black mana, a destruction-effect pre-block, and as some people mentioned, unearth is a decent theme to run him in, so the color scheme matches.
WER386
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you got the mana you can always throw a clout of the dominous, then discard a Kederekt Leviathan, unearth it next turn and u won without a soul fire, but yeah, not Standard... in standard I put my bets on the dual Kederekt Leviathans and this dragon; I just think it's a little weird the opponent has nothing to block it, even with it's Flying ability and if your smart enough you will leave untapped lands to throw any removal you got left to set aside the hydroblasters (slang of my own for the kederkts). Why when people think in ways to succeed with a card I think how to crash the combo/strategy? ¡)
Citera
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I run a dragon deck and often times, I have a dragonstorm pretty early in the game with nothing to do with it. Surprisingly enough, this combo is the most reliable and most consistent one of used thus far:
Spellbound Dragon + Clout of Dominus + Dragonstorm. It automatically becomes a 14/7 flyer with haste and shroud. For the most part, it's pretty hard to stop especially due to the unexpected haste.
though I have fun with this card in a deck with Jhoira of the Ghitu, Time Stretch and Bogardan Hellkite. It's always fun either getting a time stretch or being able to discard it for 13 damage.
mdakw576
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
I'm testing this card in my dragonstorm deck. On paper it sounds decent. It's 5 mana, which is interesting since most dragons are 6 mana (and I don't like hunted dragon), and it can let me discard extra dragonstorms/bogardan hellkites in my hand for massive att. Even if I discard, say, a peer through depths, I still ended up with a 5/5 flier "draw a card then discard a card".
dragononewing
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(7 votes)
It's kind of hilarious knowing that I can just feed my Spellbound Dragon with Emrakul, the Aeons Torn.
JackTheNuker
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Spellbound dragon use it with seize the day turn 5 play Spellbound dragon turn 6 attack with dragon and discard seize the day damage 7 damage. In sec mainphase play the flashback cost and do it again with maybe an even higher costing card. easy 20 damage in turn 6. Works really good for me, but I am playing a madness /discard / unearth deck.
This is great in an unearth deck, OR an izzet deck.
KingRusty
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
F*** the flavor text. He's still a king in Esper. Like to see a sphinx take on this soveriegn piece of work.
BloodJunkie
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Very, very cool card with very, very cool artwork.
Perhaps I'm the only one who took notice to the fact that this dragon has no eyes... Hmmm...
And as InHarmsWay stated, the coolest (or at least most flavorful/thematic) way to use this card is with Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind.
Awesome card, but not the most powerful dragon I've ever seen.
4/5
Khultar
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@skew In my opinion, i dont think any of the cards you named co exist as well with this card simply because it stays on the battlefield. FUTURE SIGHT
Hayw00d0909
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(6 votes)
I really like this guy's flavor. Awesome artwork and good color theme mechanics.
Love it. Ordering a few for my Grixis deck tomorrow.
metalevolence
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This is a solid beater and card-filterer for 5 mana. Add discard shenanigans on top of that, and you've got a fine top end to your curve.
MyrBattlecube
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
A king in Jund, a serf in Esper.
...but Grixis colors.
leomistico
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
@MyrBattlecube: A king in Jund, a serf in Esper.
...but Grixis colors. More like Izzet colors... It's a dragon from Jund(which main color is {R}) that travelered to Esper({U}), so maybe it hasn't even seen Grixis...
This is probably one of the most funny Dragon, in my favourite colors! I would give it a 5/5, but now its rating is 4.444, so I don't want to ruin such a beautiful number...
AngelPhoenix
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Such a beast. 5 mana in only two different colors is nothing for what this guy can do. Even if you discard a one or two CC card, he's still a 4/5, 5/5 flyer for 5 that lets you drop something you don't really need and draw into your deck every turn. Run with the crazy expensive stuff in Grixis and this guy ends games. Trust me, stick a Whispersilk on him, and start chucking Blood Tyrants and Cruel Ultimatums and see how long your opponents last.
Anubisisking
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
A spell I like to use this guy with is Call the Skybreaker.
TheWallinator74
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
As I love Dragons in all shapes and sizes, seeing this one Enslaved as such bring tears to my eyes. That said, he still retains the destructive capabilities of his non-captured brethren.
Nothing says "ouch" like swinging with this guy and discardingDraco.
TheWitherer
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
It's a Miracle eater! Run
rollinsclone
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
GREAT card. Easily pumped, relatively cheap flier that cycles your deck. If you're running these colors, consider this guy.
rogelio
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I discarded a Darksteel Colossus with this card. Next turn, I topdecked a Greater Gargadon and sent it straight to the grave. My opponent wasn't too happy.
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Edit: Celfaria, I never said anything about Magma Phoenix's ability triggering, I was referring to the ability to bring it back from the grave. You discard it, and you don't have to lose card advantage.
I'd personally prefer to use it with Squee, Goblin Nabob than with Magma Phoenix. Gives you a free card every turn, plus a guaranteed 6/5 swinging every turn, with the opportunity to increase it's power if that becomes advantageous.
I like to run a few of these in a Jhoira suspension deck, as having these guys makes good use of those high cmc spells/creatures that you can't use too well if Jhoira isn't showing her face. Added fun if you discard an expensive card and then play Soul's Fire.
plus, the Soul's Fire can always be used if the dragon's blocked or banished.
Why when people think in ways to succeed with a card I think how to crash the combo/strategy? ¡)
Spellbound Dragon + Clout of Dominus + Dragonstorm. It automatically becomes a 14/7 flyer with haste and shroud. For the most part, it's pretty hard to stop especially due to the unexpected haste.
though I have fun with this card in a deck with Jhoira of the Ghitu, Time Stretch and Bogardan Hellkite. It's always fun either getting a time stretch or being able to discard it for 13 damage.
turn 5 play Spellbound dragon
turn 6 attack with dragon and discard seize the day damage 7 damage. In sec mainphase play the flashback cost and do it again with maybe an even higher costing card. easy 20 damage in turn 6.
Works really good for me, but I am playing a madness /discard / unearth deck.
Guess they're too obvious...
Perhaps I'm the only one who took notice to the fact that this dragon has no eyes... Hmmm...
And as InHarmsWay stated, the coolest (or at least most flavorful/thematic) way to use this card is with Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind.
Awesome card, but not the most powerful dragon I've ever seen.
4/5
In my opinion, i dont think any of the cards you named co exist as well with this card simply because it stays on the battlefield.
FUTURE SIGHT
Love it. Ordering a few for my Grixis deck tomorrow.
...but Grixis colors.
A king in Jund, a serf in Esper.
...but Grixis colors.
More like Izzet colors... It's a dragon from Jund(which main color is {R}) that travelered to Esper({U}), so maybe it hasn't even seen Grixis...
This is probably one of the most funny Dragon, in my favourite colors!
I would give it a 5/5, but now its rating is 4.444, so I don't want to ruin such a beautiful number...