Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant
- Mana cost
- {1}{R}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Human Druid
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- Foundations Commander #172 (rare)
- Price
- $0.25 USD
When Sarkhan enters, you may behold a Dragon. If you do, create a Treasure token. (To behold a Dragon, choose a Dragon you control or reveal a Dragon card from your hand.)
Whenever a Dragon you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Sarkhan. Until end of turn, Sarkhan becomes a Dragon in addition to his other types and gains flying.
Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant has 7 printings, first in Tarkir: Dragonstorm (2025). EDHREC ranks it #6,885 among Commander cards. It appears most in Lathliss, Dragon Queen decks (1,878 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant
- Reign of Dragons - Foundations Commander, led by Lathliss, Dragon Queen
Commanders that run Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen: 1,878 decks
- Smaug the Magnificent: 621 decks
- Rivaz of the Claw: 577 decks
- Sarkhan, Soul Aflame: 562 decks
- Zurgo and Ojutai: 421 decks
- Rith, Liberated Primeval: 151 decks
- Nogi, Draco-Zealot: 144 decks
- Magda, the Hoardmaster: 122 decks
Often played with Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a cost to cast a spell includes revealing a card, that card remains revealed from the time the spell is announced until the time it leaves the stack.
- : If a card in your hand is already revealed (perhaps because it was revealed to pay a cost of a spell that’s still on the stack or due to the effect of a card like Telepathy), you may reveal it again to pay the cost of another spell or ability that requires you to reveal a card from your hand.
- : Effects that say “If a [quality] was beheld” only care if a card of that quality was revealed or a permanent you control of that quality was chosen. No matter what happens to that card or permanent after that, it was still beheld, and any additional effects that depend on that card or permanent being beheld will still happen.
- : If an effect refers to a “[subtype] card,” it refers only to a card that has that subtype. For example, Teeming Dragonstorm is a card that cares about Dragons and features Dragons in its art, but it isn’t a Dragon card.