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Dracogenesis

Enchantment

You may cast Dragon spells without paying their mana costs.

CMC
8
Mana cost
{6}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
mythic
Set
Tarkir: Dragonstorm Promos
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#2525
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Dracogenesis card art
Dracogenesis puts a Dragon token into play for every Dragon you already control — at instant speed — which means a board of five Dragons becomes ten without warning. The cost scales with what you're asking for, but in The Ur-Dragon or Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm decks that already flood the board with Dragons, the math routinely ends games.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
The Ur-Dragon

The Ur-Dragon

53.5% of decks · synergy 0.47

The Ur-Dragon's eminence discount and five-color Dragon suite means Dracogenesis lands earlier and doubles a wider board — and every token it creates triggers future attacks through The Ur-Dragon's combat ability.

02
Lathliss, Dragon Queen

Lathliss, Dragon Queen

43.6% of decks · synergy 0.42

Lathliss, Dragon Queen already rewards you for playing non-token Dragons, and Dracogenesis converts an existing board into a second wave of tokens that all hit Lathliss triggers simultaneously.

03
Ureni of the Unwritten

Ureni of the Unwritten

42.1% of decks · synergy 0.34

Ureni of the Unwritten puts Dragons into play off the top of the library in rapid succession, so Dracogenesis arrives when the board is at its most populated — often as a same-turn alpha strike doubler.

04
Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm

Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm

39.8% of decks · synergy 0.32

Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm copies each nontoken Dragon as it enters, so the Dragons on board when you cast Dracogenesis are already at 2x — Dracogenesis then doubles the token count on top of that geometric growth.

05
Atarka, World Render

Atarka, World Render

30.1% of decks · synergy 0.29

Atarka, World Render gives every Dragon double strike and trample, so Dracogenesis doubling the attacker count before combat doesn't just add bodies — it multiplies lethal damage by the same factor.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Dracogenesis is legal in every major Constructed format, but its realistic home is Commander. In 60-card formats the card asks too much — you need a critical mass of Dragons already in play at instant speed, a condition that rarely aligns before the game is already decided. Commander is where Dracogenesis earns its slot: multiplayer games run longer, Dragon tribal decks naturally accumulate a wide board, and the instant speed is genuinely threatening when opponents can't hold up answers for every end step. Oathbreaker is a plausible secondary format if your planeswalker supports a Dragon strategy, but the smaller starting life totals compress the window where a token doubling matters.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Pricing data for Dracogenesis isn't confirmed at the moment, so check current listings on Scryfall or TCGPlayer before buying. Given its inclusion rate above 40% in several high-population Dragon commanders, demand is real — don't assume it's a bulk rare.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.