Cavern-Hoard Dragon
- Mana cost
- {7}{R}{R}
- Type
- Creature — Dragon
- Power / toughness
- 6 / 6
- Set
- The Hobbit Eternal #63 (mythic)
This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest number of artifacts an opponent controls.
Flying, trample, haste
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you create a Treasure token for each artifact that player controls.
Cavern-Hoard Dragon has 5 printings, first in Tales of Middle-earth Commander (2023). EDHREC ranks it #1,371 among Commander cards. It appears most in Sauron, the Dark Lord decks (11,521 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: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Public decks that run Cavern-Hoard Dragon
- Hosts of Mordor - Tales of Middle-earth Commander, led by Sauron, Lord of the Rings
Commanders that run Cavern-Hoard Dragon most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Sauron, the Dark Lord: 11,521 decks
- The Ur-Dragon: 6,598 decks
- Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm: 4,824 decks
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw: 4,553 decks
- Ureni of the Unwritten: 4,522 decks
- Tannuk, Steadfast Second: 3,925 decks
- Smaug the Magnificent: 3,346 decks
- Sauron, Lord of the Rings: 3,106 decks
Often played with Cavern-Hoard Dragon
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If the greatest number of artifacts an opponent controls is seven or more, Cavern-Hoard Dragon costs {R}{R} to cast.
- : Cavern-Hoard Dragon's last ability cares about the number of artifacts that player controls as the ability resolves.
- : Once a player has announced that they are casting Cavern-Hoard Dragon, no player may take actions to try and change the greatest number of artifacts an opponent controls before Cavern-Hoard Dragon's cost is locked in.
- : Cavern-Hoard Dragon's first ability counts only the artifacts controlled by the opponent who controls the greatest number of artifacts among your opponents. If you have an opponent who controls two artifacts and another opponent who controls three artifacts, Cavern-Hoard Dragon's mana cost would be reduced by {3}.