The Commander
Flying
Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, bolster 2. (Choose a creature with the least toughness among creatures you control and put two +1/+1 counters on it.)
Guide
Gameplan
Cast Dromoka, swing with Dragons to bolster +1/+1 counters across your team while leveraging GW's strong ramp and removal-resistant beaters. Build a wide-and-tall counters board, then overrun the table with anthems and trample. Lifegain and big bodies keep you stable while you grind out advantage.
Strengths
- Hard to interact with: Dromoka can't be countered and the bolster ability auto-grows your board every combat
- GW gives access to the best ramp, lifegain, and efficient white removal
- Counters synergies scale beautifully with proliferate and doublers
- Flying 5/5 commander pressures life totals immediately
Weaknesses
- Bolster only triggers off Dragon attackers, narrowing your aggro shell
- No card advantage built into the commander; can run out of gas
- Board wipes are devastating to a counters-go-wide strategy
- Lacks evasion outside flyers; ground stalls happen
Key Cards
- Hardened Scales — Turns every bolster 2 into bolster 3, snowballing your counter output.
- Doubling Season — Doubles all +1/+1 counters from bolster, instantly making your team enormous.
- Branchwalker — Cheap creature that loves being a bolster target while also providing card selection.
- Cathars' Crusade — Each token or creature entering adds counters everywhere, layering with bolster.
- Utvara Hellkite — Pumps out Dragon tokens that each trigger bolster when they attack.
- Inspiring Call — Protects your counter-laden creatures from wipes and refills your hand.
- Skullclamp — Critical card draw engine to fight Dromoka's lack of native card advantage.
Upgrade Path
Tighten the curve with efficient ramp (Sol Ring, Three Visits, Nature's Lore) and add counter multipliers like Hardened Scales, Branching Evolution, and Doubling Season. Lean into proliferate (Evolution Sage, Innkeeper's Talent) and protection (Heroic Intervention, Teferi's Protection) to survive wipes. Cap it with a finisher package—Craterhoof Behemoth, Triumph of the Hordes, or Akroma's Memorial—to convert big boards into wins.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Overrun the table with a bolstered, trampling team using Craterhoof Behemoth or Overwhelming Stampede
- ▸Connect with an oversized flying Dragon for repeated combat damage
- ▸Dragon tribal swarm backed by anthems and counter doublers
Archetypes
- +1/+1 Counters — Bolster naturally feeds counter doublers, proliferate, and counter payoffs.
- Dragon Tribal — More Dragon attackers means more bolster triggers and tribal payoffs.
- Go-Wide Aggro — GW tokens plus anthems convert bolstered boards into lethal alpha strikes.
- Voltron — Stack bolster counters and protection onto one Dragon for commander-damage kills.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GW), by popularity.
