Sarkhan Unbroken
Legendary Planeswalker — Sarkhan
+1: Draw a card, then add one mana of any color.
−2: Create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying.
−8: Search your library for any number of Dragon creature cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Dragons of Tarkir
- Price
- $18.57
- EDHREC rank
- #5983
Sarkhan Unbroken enters the battlefield and immediately replaces himself with a card and a mana — two actions on a five-mana planeswalker is a real rate, and his ultimate floods the board with dragon tokens in a way that ends games. In The Ur-Dragon shells specifically, every dragon token he makes triggers your commander's cost reduction and enters-the-battlefield engine, making him one of the few five-drops in the format pulling triple duty.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Ur-Dragon
The Ur-Dragon's eminence ability makes Sarkhan Unbroken cost four mana, which is an obscene rate for a planeswalker that draws, ramps, and ultimates into a dragon army — and every token he creates is another trigger for The Ur-Dragon's free permanent-on-attack ability.
Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm
Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm copies every nontoken dragon that enters the battlefield, so the dragons Sarkhan Unbroken ultimately creates aren't the point — but the draw-plus-ramp mode keeps Miirym's hand and mana development on curve while you assemble the pieces that actually break the token doubling.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Sarkhan Unbroken is a Commander card through and through — the five-mana cost and slow-burn ultimate are built for a format where you survive long enough to cash them in. In competitive Pioneer and Modern, five mana planeswalkers that don't immediately threaten to win face too much pressure, and Sarkhan Unbroken's +1 draws one card rather than protecting himself, which is a liability against creature-heavy fields. Oathbreaker is a natural fit if you're running dragon-tribal signatures, and Legacy technically supports him, but there's no shell there hungry for what he does. Stick to Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Sarkhan, Soul Aflame fills a similar tribal-support role at a fraction of the price — he makes dragon tokens and buffs your board, though he lacks the card draw that makes Sarkhan Unbroken genuinely card-advantageous. Dragon's Hoard offers the ramp-and-draw half of the equation for under a dollar, missing the threat body entirely but keeping you on curve in the same shells.
Price Context
Current price
$18.57 mid tier
At $18.57, Sarkhan Unbroken sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate inclusion, cheap enough that dragon-tribal players shouldn't hesitate if the slot is right. Demand from The Ur-Dragon and Miirym decks keeps a floor under the price, so this isn't a card you'll find crashing to bulk anytime soon.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.