Whenever an opponent casts a creature or planeswalker spell with the same name as a card in their graveyard, that player loses 10 life.
Drop Dragonlord Kolaghan as an evasive 6/6 flyer with haste and start beating face immediately while granting your whole board haste for explosive alpha strikes. The deck wants aggressive haste creatures, dragons, and a low-to-mid curve to apply pressure faster than opponents can stabilize. Close games with combat damage, big haste-enabled swings, or dragon synergies.
Immediate impact: 6/6 flying haste that demands an answer and pressures life totals right away
Hands every creature haste, turning fresh drops and reanimation targets into instant threats
Aggressive Rakdos color pair with premium removal, burn, and recursion
Evasion plus haste makes alpha strikes and Voltron-style finishes reliable
Punishing damage clause almost never triggers in real games, so it's effectively vanilla text
Six mana for a creature with no protection; dies to any spot removal and resets your tempo
No card advantage or recovery built in—runs out of gas if the board stalls
Vulnerable to board wipes that erase your hasty go-wide plan
Shroud and haste protect your fragile six-mana commander from removal so the aggression continues.
Lean into either dragon tribal payoffs (Scourge of Valkas, Sarkhan, Soul of Ravnica-style anthems) or a tighter Voltron package with Swords and Hexproof protection to make Kolaghan's evasion lethal. Add fast mana (Sol Ring, Signets, rituals) and reanimation (Reanimate, Animate Dead, Buried Alive) to deploy threats ahead of curve, and include protection like Lightning Greaves and Heroic Intervention to weather removal and wraths.
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon
