Gishath by Mr.Horsey

Format: Commander

Commander: Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Naya Dinosaur tribal stompy strategy led by Gishath, Sun's Avatar. Its game plan focuses on rapid early-game ramp via low-cost mana dorks, rocks, and land acceleration to deploy Gishath on Turn 5. Thanks to built-in haste and trample, Gishath attacks immediately, triggering its combat damage ability to reveal the top seven cards of the library and cheat multiple high-impact Dinosaurs directly onto the battlefield. The deck converts this sudden, overwhelming board presence into rapid eliminations over the following two turns using trample, anthems, and finishers like Overwhelming Stampede and Unnatural Growth. In addition to Gishath, powerful standalone threats such as Pantlaza, Sun-Favored, Etali, Primal Storm, and Ghalta, Primal Hunger provide resilient backup routes. While vulnerable to instant-speed spot removal on Gishath and non-targeting exile board wipes, the deck's dense card draw engines and immense creature redundancy ensure consistent pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Colossal Majesty
  • 1 Curious Altisaur
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Fires of Yavimaya
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta and Mavren
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gigantosaurus
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Goring Ceratops
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Kindred Judgment
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Monstrous Onslaught
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Pugnacious Hammerskull
  • 1 Quakestrider Ceratops
  • 1 Questing Beast
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Regal Imperiosaur
  • 1 Rhonas the Indomitable
  • 1 Rhonas's Monument
  • 1 Ripjaw Raptor
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple Altisaur
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terrian, World Tyrant
  • 1 The Tarrasque
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Thunderherd Migration
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wakening Sun's Avatar
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Whisperer of the Wilds
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Wrap in Vigor
  • 1 Wrathful Raptors
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity