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Bladewing the Risen
Legendary Creature — Zombie Dragon
Flying When Bladewing enters, you may return target Dragon permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield. {B}{R}: Dragon creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.
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“Reanimate Dragons, pump the team, fly over for victory.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Reanimation loops
Reanimator, Tribal, Graveyard, Sacrifice
Strategy
Bladewing the Risen is a reanimation engine built around Dragons—a powerful tribe that naturally fills your graveyard with expensive threats. Your core gameplan is getting big Dragons into the yard (through discard, looting, or mill effects), then casting Bladewing to reanimate one for free while also hitting the board as a flying body yourself. Once you've got Dragons in play, you can use Bladewing's activated ability to pump them all for burst damage, turning your air force into a lethal force quickly.
The deck thrives on a graveyard-matters shell with cheap self-mill and discard outlets early on, ramping into bigger Dragons mid-game. Cards like Faithless Looting, Sarkhan the Mastermind, and Kolaghan Stormsuged help you stock the graveyard while applying pressure. Late game, you're either swinging with multiple Dragons (often including recursion loops if you can bounce Bladewing), or you're looking for Dragon-focused combo lines like Scourge of Kher Ridges + a sacrifice outlet. The deck scales from casual dragon-tribal fun to mid-power reanimation strategies depending on your local meta.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey Dragons like Lathliss; use budget dragons like Glorybringer or Stormbreath Dragon, and replace tutors like Mystical Tutor with cheaper graveyard-fillers like Stitcher's Supplier or Merfolk Looter.
Most-Played Cards
Lathliss, Dragon Queen
Dragon Tempest
Scourge of Valkas
Crux of Fate
Dragonspeaker Shaman
Hellkite Courser
Buried Alive
Rivaz of the Claw
Animate Dead
Terror of the Peaks
Utvara Hellkite
Dragonlord's Servant
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