Uldaros Theorix

Strategies it goes well with

• Fill the graveyard with cheap, different card types. The trigger rewards variety, not volume. A cheap instant, a cheap sorcery, a cheap enchantment and a cheap artifact in the graveyard give you four free spells inside the 6 mana value cap.
• Self-mill. Stitcher's Supplier and Thought Scour put cards into the graveyard for one mana each, which sets up the trigger before you cast him on turn five.
• Recasting as a commander. Each time he returns to the command zone and you cast him again, he copies a new set of cards. Commander tax makes each recast more expensive, so it works best when your graveyard has refilled in between.

How it does in Commander

As the commander

As the commander, he leads a blue-black graveyard value deck that wants low-cost spells of several card types. He is a 5/5 flier for five, so he also attacks well once the trigger has resolved. The weakness is that the trigger needs a graveyard to work with, and graveyard hate before you cast him leaves a vanilla flier.

In the 99

In another blue-black deck he's a strong five-drop if the deck already puts cheap spells in the graveyard. In a reanimator deck he's weaker than he looks, because putting him onto the battlefield without casting him skips the trigger.

Formats it's strong in

• Blue-black self-mill and spells decks. Decks that already bin cheap instants and sorceries get several free spells and a 5/5 flier for one card.
• Brawl and Standard Brawl. He's legal in Standard as a main-set card, so he can lead a Brawl deck as well as a Commander deck.

Formats it's weak in

• Reanimator decks. Entomb-and-reanimate lines put him onto the battlefield without casting him, which skips the only ability he has besides flying.
• Decks with expensive spells. The 6 mana value cap means a graveyard full of five- and six-drops gives you one free spell at most.

Synergistic cards

Stitcher's Supplier ↗

Mills three when it enters and three more when it dies, for {B}.

Thought Scour ↗

Mills two and draws a card, and leaves a cheap instant in the graveyard for him to copy.

Demonic Tutor ↗

A two-mana sorcery that is worth casting twice. Copying it with his trigger finds another card for free.

Phyrexian Arena ↗

A three-mana enchantment that fits under the cap next to a cheap sorcery, and comes back as a token copy that keeps drawing.

Is it worth the price?

Uldaros is a mythic from the Reality Fracture main set, released October 2, 2026, and early prices are still settling. He has not been reprinted. If you only want him for the 99, waiting a few weeks for prices to settle costs you little.

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