"Lathliss , Dragon Queen.: All hail the Queen!"

"Lathliss , Dragon Queen.: All hail the Queen!"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

Players always keep an eye out for updates that they can do to their existing decks when a new set rolls out. And this time around I was excited to know that there will be new dragons(well old dragons) coming back to lead commanders decks.

The first one that caught my eye isn't even an Elder Dragon but one that befits a queen and this is Lathliss , Dragon Queen. 

A 6 mana , 6/6 dragon that has flying. Of course I don't like her just for her body. I love her for the fact that she can literally birth another dragon for you and all you have to do is get another dragon into play. You end up with a 5/5 Red Dragon token with flying when another dragon enters the battlefield under your control.

And who would be happy to see the Queen? Aside from other dragons of course. It would be Zirilan of the Claw who could put Dragons directly on the battlefield! So what if they get exiled at the end of the turn? You still get a 5/5 one remaining to block or attack next turn.

Or how about having a Sneak attack into play where you just sneak your dragons for 1 red mana? If you have a Dragon Tempest into play as well. Well that is a lot of damage now isn't it? So let us say you were able to put down 3 6/6 dragons into play.(Assuming you already have Lathliss in play) The first one would trigger 1 6/6 creating a 5/5 dealing 2 damage , next dragon goes down and triggers creating a 2nd 5/5 and then 4 damage and the third 6/6 creates a 3rd dragon token for 6 damage. Since Dragon Tempest will grant these flying Dragons Haste that would be a total of 45 points of damage. Well not enough to kill with this the 6/6 dragons but what if you plopped down a Bogardan Hellkite or a Dragon Tyrant? What if you were able to cheat Utvara Hellkite? 

So much fun is in store with Lathliss.