Dragonlord Atarka
Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon
Flying, trample
When Dragonlord Atarka enters, it deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers your opponents control.
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- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander (TDC #285)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 7
- Released
- 2025-04-11
- Artist
- Karl Kopinski
- EDHREC rank
- #4,514
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Atarka, World Render
- Dragonlord's Servant
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen
- Dragon Tempest
- Thunderbreak Regent
- Dragonspeaker Shaman
- Savage Ventmaw
- Scourge of Valkas
- Dragon's Hoard
- Dragonborn Champion
- Thrakkus the Butcher
- Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind
- Terror of the Peaks
- Utvara Hellkite
- Hellkite Courser
- Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
- Haven of the Spirit Dragon
- Dragonmaster Outcast
- Wrathful Red Dragon
- Bloomvine Regent
- Ganax, Astral Hunter
- Harbinger of the Hunt
- Atarka's Command
- Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
- Encroaching Dragonstorm
- Jade Orb of Dragonkind
- Earthquake Dragon
- Dragonstorm Globe
- Goldspan Dragon
- Old Gnawbone
- Scaled Nurturer
- Garruk's Uprising
- Elemental Bond
- Klauth's Will
- Balefire Dragon
- Crucible of Fire
- Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
- Broodcaller Scourge
- Thundermaw Hellkite
- Twinflame Tyrant
- Frontier Siege
- Smaug, the Great Calamity
- Sarkhan's Triumph
- Thundermane Dragon
- Atarka Monument
- Up the Beanstalk
- Skyline Despot
- Demanding Dragon
- Dracogenesis
- Skyshroud Claim
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Mountain
- Forest
- Sol Ring
- Command Tower
- Cinder Glade
- Rootbound Crag
- Garruk's Uprising
- Arcane Signet
- Cultivate
- Atarka, World Render
- Stomping Ground
- Rampant Growth
- Rhythm of the Wild
- Karplusan Forest
- Beast Within
- Dragonlord's Servant
- Savage Ventmaw
- Lathliss, Dragon Queen
- Rockfall Vale
- Dragon Tempest
- Goblin Anarchomancer
- Farseek
- Game Trail
- Temple of Abandon
- Thunderbreak Regent
- Return of the Wildspeaker
- Nature's Lore
- Dragonspeaker Shaman
- Kodama's Reach
- Terror of the Peaks
- Dragonborn Champion
- Blasphemous Act
- Heroic Intervention
- Kessig Wolf Run
- Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
- Llanowar Elves
- Scourge of Valkas
- Spire Garden
- Dragon's Hoard
- Wooded Foothills
- Sheltered Thicket
- Thrakkus the Butcher
- Chaos Warp
- Hellkite Courser
- Rishkar's Expertise
- Gruul Turf
- Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind
- Dragonmaster Outcast
- Utvara Hellkite
- Haven of the Spirit Dragon
Format legality
Rulings
- 2015-02-25
If some of the targets are illegal targets as the ability tries to resolve, the original division of damage still applies but no damage is dealt to the illegal targets. If all targets are illegal, the ability doesn’t resolve.
- 2015-02-25
You choose how many targets the ability has and how the damage is divided as you put the ability on the stack. Each target must receive at least 1 damage.