Dragons of Tarkir

Dragons of Tarkir is the 67th Magic expansion, and the third and last in the Khans of Tarkir block. It was released March 27, 2015. Dragons of Tarkir is a large expansion.

Set details
Your Dragon, Their Doom Dragons of Tarkir is designed to be drafted with Fate Reforged but not with Khans of Tarkir. Also, Dragons of Tarkir did not rotate out of Standard with Khans of Tarkir and Fate Reforged, but instead rotated out with Magic Origins due to Standard's regulation changes. To differentiate the drafting experience from Khans of Tarkir / Fate Reforged, Dragons of Tarkir was designed around 5 sets of allied color pairs. Khans of Tarkir was a slow, three-color wedge format where enemy colors are the typical starting point, whereas Dragons draft leans slightly to allied colors, but players can find some enemy color payoffs in Fate Reforged.

Dragons of Tarkir contains 264 cards (15 basic lands - 5 less than Khans of Tarkir -, 101 commons, 80 uncommons, 53 rares, 15 mythic rares) and includes randomly inserted premium versions of all cards. Like the one from Scourge before, the expansion symbol of Dragons of Tarkir represents a dragon's head. This set is supposed to be the ultimate "dragon set". There are more than twice as many dragons in it than in any other set and they appear in all colors. It also contains many cards that reference Dragons and care about Dragons.

Each of the five clans known from the previous sets is now integrated with one of the Dragon broods. Only the icons of the broods, first seen in Fate Reforged, appear as watermarks in the text boxes of the cards. The clan symbols have disappeared. The icons have no effect on gameplay. There are several "crossover cards" that present alternate versions of characters and situations from the previous timeline.

Storyline
After Sarkhan Vol has done his duty in the past, the story now returns to the present of Tarkir. But it seems that changing the past has produced some unexpected results. Mighty Dragons now rule the skies and the five clans that comprise most of Tarkir's populace. Known characters have an altered fate; Zurgo is just a puny orc and Narset has not died at all, but became a planeswalker instead.

Marketing
Dragons of Tarkir is sold in 16-card boosters (the 16th card being a marketing card), five intro packs, an event deck and a fat pack. The boosters feature art from Dragonlord Atarka, Dragonlord Kolaghan, Icefall Regent, Sarkhan, Unbroken and Narset Transcendent.

Prerelease
The Dragons of Tarkir prerelease took place on March 21–22, 2015. As a special gimmick, each participating store received a Tarkir Dragonfury playing board with character pieces that stand upright on them. The board is a Tarkir landscape, and the pieces can be knocked down by a throw with a special spindown life counter, themed to the breath weapon of one of the five Tarkir dragonlords. Each piece has a point value on it, and the player gets points equal to the total number they knock down. If the die ends up in the central circle, the score is doubled. Every player gets two rolls (resetting the board between each roll). Depending on the highest score, up to four alternate art promotional cards can be won: a land, a common, an uncommon and a rare.

Players choose a clan. Each player receiveds a Seeded Prerelease pack that had everything they needed to build their sealed deck.

Promotional cards

 * Tarkir Dragonfury: Evolving Wilds, Dragon Fodder, Dragonlord's Servant and Foe-Razer Regent</c>
 * Launch promo: Deathbringer Regent</c>
 * Game Day Participation Prize: Scaleguard Sentinels</c>
 * Game Day Top 8 Prize: Thunderbreak Regent</c>
 * Buy-a-Box: Ojutai's Command</c>
 * Prerelease, one of forty according to the chosen clan:

Tokens, emblems and overlay cards
The sixteenth card in the boosters can be a token, emblem or overlay card, with an advertisement on the back side. The overlay card can be used on face-down Megamorph cards to remind players of their power and toughness and that it can be turned face-up for its Megamorph cost.


 * 1)  1/1 Warrior for Secure the Wastes</c>
 * 2)  2/2 Djinn with flying for Ojutai's Summons</c> and Skywise Teachings</c>
 * 3)  2/2 Zombie for Necromaster Dragon</c> and Rakshasa Gravecaller</c>
 * 4)  */* Zombie Horror for Corpseweft</c>
 * 5)  4/4 Dragon with flying for Descent of the Dragons</c>, Dragon Whisperer</c> and Sarkhan Unbroken</c>
 * 6)  1/1 Goblin for Dragon Fodder</c>
 * 7)  overlay card

Themes and mechanics
Obviously, Dragons mattered in this set.

Bolster and Dash returned from Fate Reforged, as the mechanics for the green-white Dromoka and black-red Kolaghan clans, respectively.

Rebound was repeated from the Rise of the Eldrazi set, and became the mechanic of the white-blue Ojutai clan.

In addition three new mechanics were featured:
 * Exploit When a creature with exploit enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature you control. Each creature with exploit has another ability that gives you a benefit when it "exploits a creature." Exploit is the signature ability of the blue-black Silumgar clan.
 * Formidable Creatures with this ability word care in some way about controlling creatures with total power 8 or greater. Formidable is the signature mechanic of the red-green Atarka clan.
 * Megamorph This is basically morph with an extra bonus. Turning creatures them face-up by paying their megamorph cost puts a +1/+1 counter on the creature.

Card types
The set sees the return of the elder type, which is used for the Dragonlords.

Cycles
Dragons of Tarkir has eleven cycles:

Pairs
Dragons of Tarkir has one mirrored pair.

Reprinted cards
The following cards have been reprinted from previous sets:
 * Battle Mastery</c>, first printed in Lorwyn and last seen in Magic 2015.
 * <c>Death Wind</c>, first printed in Avacyn Restored.
 * <c>Dragon Fodder</c>, first printed in Shards of Alara and last seen in Duel Decks: Knights vs. Dragons.
 * <c>Duress</c>, first printed in Urza's Saga and last seen in Magic 2014.
 * <c>Evolving Wilds</c>, first printed in Rise of the Eldrazi and last seen in Commander 2014.
 * <c>Explosive Vegetation</c>, first printed in Onslaught and last seen in Duel Decks: Elspeth vs. Kiora.
 * <c>Gravepurge</c>, first printed in Dark Ascension.
 * <c>Kindled Fury</c>, first printed in Morningtide and last seen in Magic 2015.
 * <c>Mind Rot</c>, first printed in Portal and last seen in Magic 2015.
 * <c>Naturalize</c>, first printed in Onslaught and last seen in Khans of Tarkir.
 * <c>Negate</c>, first printed in Morningtide and last seen in Magic 2015.
 * <c>Pacifism</c>, first printed in Mirage and last seen in Magic 2014.
 * <c>Spidersilk Net</c>, first printed in Zendikar.
 * <c>Summit Prowler</c>, first printed in Khans of Tarkir.
 * <c>Tormenting Voice</c>, first printed in Khans of Tarkir.
 * <c>Ultimate Price</c>, first printed in Return to Ravnica.

<c>Naturalize</c>, <c>Summit Prowler</c>, <c>Tormenting Voice</c> are first non-basic land cards that are reprinted within the same block in Magic history.

Functional reprints

 * <c>Ancient Carp</c> is a functional reprint of <c>Armored Cancrix</c> save for creature types.
 * <c>Dromoka Warrior</c> is a functional reprint of <c>Blade of the Sixth Pride</c> and <c>Oreskos Swiftclaw</c> save for creature types.
 * <c>Magmatic Chasm</c> is a functional reprint of <c>Seismic Stomp</c>.
 * <c>Shambling Goblin</c> is a near-functional reprint of <c>Festering Goblin</c>.
 * <c>Territorial Roc</c> is a functional reprint of <c>Concordia Pegasus</c> save for creature types.
 * <c>Twin Bolt</c> is a functional reprint of the Fire half of <c>Fire // Ice</c>

Notable cards

 * <c>Collected Company</c> is a powerful instant used to make a strong board advantage in creature-based deck in Modern.
 * <c>Kolaghan's Command</c> is a very versatile instant thanks to its four abilities. It's used mainly in Jund decks in Modern.
 * <c>Summit Prowler</c> represents the one creature for which the timeline change just didn't really matter — things were still basically the same. The only change in the art is some added Dragons.

Intro packs
Dragons of Tarkir has five bicolored intro packs:

Event deck
Dragons of Tarkir has one event deck.