OPEN THE DOOR, GET ON THE FLOOR by Jolley_Bear

Format: Commander

Commander: Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This deck is a Naya Dinosaur tribal stompy strategy led by Gishath, Sun's Avatar. Its primary game plan is to ramp through early turns using land-search spells and cost reducers, building toward casting Gishath on Turn 6. With built-in haste and trample, Gishath attacks immediately to trigger its ability, revealing the top seven cards of the library and putting all revealed Dinosaurs directly onto the battlefield. This generates an overwhelming board presence featuring massive threats like Etali, Primal Conqueror, Vaultborn Tyrant, and Wrathful Raptors. The deck also includes an infinite token loop with Marauding Raptor and Polyraptor, which can win on the spot when paired with damage outlets. While the deck boasts immense combat pressure and resilient standalone creatures, its primary vulnerabilities are an 8-mana commander cost, light stack protection, and reliance on fight spells for creature removal. Once the Dinosaur engine connects, it closes games within two combat cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Baffling End
  • 1 Bronzebeak Foragers
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Colossal Majesty
  • 1 Commune with Dinosaurs
  • 1 Contest of Claws
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curious Altisaur
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Dinosaur Stampede
  • 1 Earthshaker Dreadmaw
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Goring Ceratops
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kinjalli's Sunwing
  • 1 Majestic Heliopterus
  • 1 Marauding Raptor
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Palani's Hatcher
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Polyraptor
  • 1 Pounce
  • 1 Primal Might
  • 1 Raging Swordtooth
  • 1 Rampaging Brontodon
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ranging Raptors
  • 1 Regal Behemoth
  • 1 Regal Imperiosaur
  • 1 Regisaur Alpha
  • 1 Restless Ridgeline
  • 1 Rile
  • 1 Ripjaw Raptor
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Runic Armasaur
  • 1 Savage Stomp
  • 1 Scion of Calamity
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Shake the Foundations
  • 1 Silverclad Ferocidons
  • 1 Sunfrill Imitator
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Tail Swipe
  • 1 Temple Altisaur
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Thunderherd Migration
  • 1 Tranquil Frillback
  • 1 Trapjaw Tyrant
  • 1 Triumphant Chomp
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wakening Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Walk with the Ancestors
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Wrathful Raptors
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn