Limited Draft Guide

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (TDM)

Crush your next MTG draft with our Tarkir: Dragonstorm draft guide, including a color tier list, card ratings, set mechanics, and more.

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Set OverviewStats based on: Premier Draft

9.0
Fast
Slow
7.7 min
Short
Long
BestWorst
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2025

Top Colors Combinations

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Top Commons by Color

Mardu Devotee
Mardu Devotee
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Salt Road Packbeast
Salt Road Packbeast
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Fortress Kin-Guard
Fortress Kin-Guard
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Sibsig Appraiser
Sibsig Appraiser
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Dispelling Exhale
Dispelling Exhale
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Riverwalk Technique
Riverwalk Technique
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Caustic Exhale
Caustic Exhale
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Dragon's Prey
Dragon's Prey
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Aggressive Negotiations
Aggressive Negotiations
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Molten Exhale
Molten Exhale
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Shock Brigade
Shock Brigade
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Narset's Rebuke
Narset's Rebuke
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Piercing Exhale
Piercing Exhale
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Dusyut Earthcarver
Dusyut Earthcarver
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Ainok Wayfarer
Ainok Wayfarer
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Temur Tawnyback
Temur Tawnyback
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Gurmag Nightwatch
Gurmag Nightwatch
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Reigning Victor
Reigning Victor
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Archetypes & Signpost Uncommons

Abzan Endure
Hardened Tactician
Hardened Tactician
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Stalwart Successor
Stalwart Successor
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Outsize your opponent with +1/+1 counters or outflank them with Spirit tokens.View Abzan decks
Jeskai Flurry
Cori Mountain Stalwart
Cori Mountain Stalwart
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Effortless Master
Effortless Master
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Cast two (or more!) spells in a single turn to overwhelm your opponent.View decks
Sultai Renew
Kishla Skimmer
Kishla Skimmer
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Stalwart Successor
Stalwart Successor
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Use the power of the graveyard to make your creatures stronger.View decks
Mardu Mobilize
Cori Mountain Stalwart
Cori Mountain Stalwart
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Hardened Tactician
Hardened Tactician
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Create additional tokens to aid in your attacks.View decks
Temur Harmonize
Kishla Skimmer
Kishla Skimmer
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Effortless Master
Effortless Master
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Cast your spells twice with help from your biggest creatures.View decks
Sacrifice
Hardened Tactician
Hardened Tactician
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Marshal of the Lost
Marshal of the Lost
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Sacrifice your extra creatures, such as your temporary creatures from mobilize, to get extra use out of those creatures.View Orzhov decks
Two Spells
Effortless Master
Effortless Master
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Glacial Dragonhunt
Glacial Dragonhunt
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Use harmonize spells frequently in order to reap the rewards from flurry.View Izzet decks
Leaves the Graveyard
Kishla Skimmer
Kishla Skimmer
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Auroral Procession
Auroral Procession
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Fill up your graveyard, then use harmonize, renew, or other methods to get bonuses for cards leaving your graveyard.View Simic decks
Counters
Stalwart Successor
Stalwart Successor
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Host of the Hereafter
Host of the Hereafter
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Use counters of any kind, not just +1/+1 counters, to make your creatures formidable in combat.View Golgari decks
Go Wide Tokens
Cori Mountain Stalwart
Cori Mountain Stalwart
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Frontline Rush
Frontline Rush
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Blitz by your opponent with sheer numbers. Use mobilize tokens and flurry rewards to build impressive battlefields.View decks

Most Popular Combat Tricks

Set Mechanics

Some Dragon cards in the set have their own personal Omen: an instant or sorcery on lower left of the card, similar to Adventure spells. Omens have their own name, type line (complete with the new subtype Omen), mana cost, and rules text. The Dragon's abilities are on the right side of its text box. The Dragon's name, mana cost, type line, and power/toughness are in their usual positions.

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Flurry is an ability word, and each flurry ability has a different effect. Each flurry ability is a triggered ability that triggers whenever you cast your second spell in a turn. It doesn't matter what happened to the first spell. It may have resolved or been countered. It may even still be on the stack! The flurry ability will resolve before the spell that caused it to trigger.

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Renew is an ability word, and each renew ability has a different effect, although they have some things in common. All renew abilities include exiling the card with renew as part of the activation cost, and all of them can be activated only as a sorcery. All renew effects also involve putting counters on creatures—often +1/+1 counters, sometimes others. Sometimes there are additional effects. It's a bountiful variety, something the Sultai would truly appreciate.

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The number after mobilize indicates how many tapped and attacking 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens you'll create as the ability resolves. Once mobilize triggers, it doesn't matter what happens to the creature that attacked. You'll create the tokens even if that creature is no longer on the battlefield as the ability resolves, and you'll sacrifice the tokens at the beginning of the next end step even if that creature isn't around at that time.

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Harmonize allows you to cast a card from your graveyard by paying its harmonize cost rather than paying its mana cost. In addition, if you cast it this way, you may tap an untapped creature you control as an additional cost to cast that spell. If you do, the total amount of mana you pay is reduced by that creature's power.

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Several cards in the set ask you to behold a Dragon, often as an additional cost to cast a spell. To behold a Dragon, you can either choose a Dragon you control—you know, just point at it—or reveal a Dragon card from your hand. Some spells may have an additional effect if a Dragon was beheld. This applies no matter which manner of beholding you chose, and it applies no matter what happened to the Dragon or Dragon card in question.

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The instruction to surveil always includes a number, such as surveil 2 on Deadly Visit. Look at that many cards from the top of your library. From those cards, put as many cards as you like back on top of your library in any order. Put the rest into your graveyard. Surveil helps you set up better draws for the future.

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