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Dragonlord Kolaghan

Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon

Flying, haste
Other creatures you control have haste.
Whenever an opponent casts a creature or planeswalker spell with the same name as a card in their graveyard, that player loses 10 life.

CMC
6
Mana cost
{4}{B}{R}
Color identity
BR
Rarity
mythic
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#7655
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Dragonlord Kolaghan card art
Dragonlord Kolaghan lands as a 6/5 flying, haste dragon that immediately grants haste to your entire team — that's a combat-ready board the moment it resolves. The six-mana cost is real, but Rivaz of the Claw can cast it for free off exile, and pairing it with Breath of Fury turns that haste grant into an engine for unlimited combat steps.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Rivaz of the Claw

Rivaz of the Claw

26.8% of decks · synergy 0.26

Rivaz of the Claw can exile Dragonlord Kolaghan from the graveyard and cast it for free, meaning you're getting a 6/5 haste-granter with effectively zero mana investment — that's the engine in a nutshell.

02
The Ur-Dragon

The Ur-Dragon

16.0% of decks · synergy 0.14

The Ur-Dragon lists run Dragonlord Kolaghan as a haste enabler that doubles as a serious flying threat; when The Ur-Dragon's eminence ability is already shaving a mana off every dragon, a six-mana lord becomes even easier to land early.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Dragonlord Kolaghan is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — broad access, but the context that matters is Commander. There, a six-mana dragon that grants haste to the whole team is a legitimate finisher, not a support piece; you're running it because your board is wide and you need it swinging the turn it resolves. In Pioneer and Modern, six mana is a steep ask with little payoff over other Rakdos threats that close games faster or more reliably. Legacy and Vintage have the raw power to make six mana trivial, but Dragonlord Kolaghan doesn't compete at those power levels.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

48 decks
Breath of FuryDragonlord Kolaghan

Breath of FuryDragonlord Kolaghan

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite combat phases; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite untap of creatures you control; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite combat damage

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5 decks
Garth One-EyeDeadeye NavigatorDragonlord Kolaghan

Garth One-EyeDeadeye NavigatorDragonlord Kolaghan

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite blinking; Infinite card draw for any number of players; Infinite casts of all spells permitted by Garth One-Eye; Infinite colored mana; Infinite copies of a specific artifact; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite draw triggers for any number of players; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite storm count; Infinitely powerful creature until end of turn; Return all cards from your graveyard to your hand

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3 decks
Breath of FuryDragonlord KolaghanMaestros Diabolist

Breath of FuryDragonlord KolaghanMaestros Diabolist

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite combat damage; Infinite combat phases; Infinite damage; Infinite death triggers; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Dragonlord Kolaghan isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. It has seen multiple printings, which historically keeps the floor accessible — it's the kind of card worth picking up for a dragon build without losing sleep over the cost.

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