Dino Riders by Waiatto

Format: Commander

Commander: Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Naya Dinosaur/"discover" value deck helmed by Pantlaza, Sun-Favored. The primary plan is to deploy Pantlaza early, then chain big Dinosaurs and high-powered Vehicles/Spacecraft to repeatedly trigger Discover, converting raw stats into card advantage and free spells. The deck's win conditions are combat-oriented: enormous trampling attackers like Zacama, Primal Calamity, Gishath, Sun's Avatar, and Ghalta, Primal Hunger close games through sheer size, supported by mass pump spells like Preposterous Proportions and Become the Avalanche. A secondary, more explosive package exists around Vehicles/Spacecraft and station mechanics, most notably Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought, which demands an immediate answer once charged. The deck is not a fast combo deck but a midrange value engine that aims to bury opponents in card flow before swinging for lethal damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aradara Express
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atmospheric Greenhouse
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Become the Avalanche
  • 1 Belligerent Yearling
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Bounding Felidar
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Cherished Hatchling
  • 1 Colossification
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contest of Claws
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Devastating Onslaught
  • 1 Dinosaur Egg
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Dracosaur Auxiliary
  • 1 Drover Grizzly
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinguisher Battleship
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Fortune, Loyal Steed
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gigantosaurus
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Huatli's Raptor
  • 1 Hunting Grounds
  • 1 Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Lifecraft Engine
  • 1 Luxurious Locomotive
  • 1 Make a Stand
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Part in Friendship
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pinnacle Kill-Ship
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Preposterous Proportions
  • 1 Quakestrider Ceratops
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Raptor Hatchling
  • 1 Regal Behemoth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rover Blades
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Semester's End
  • 1 Sledge-Class Seedship
  • 1 Snubhorn Sentry
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Terrian, World Tyrant
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The Seriema
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thunderous Velocipede
  • 1 Tyrox, Saurid Tyrant
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Unidentified Hovership
  • 1 Unswerving Sloth
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Yidaro, Wandering Monster
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Zilortha, Strength Incarnate