dino dna by mhans913

Format: Commander

Commander: Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Naya Dinosaur tribal midrange strategy commanded by Pantlaza, Sun-Favored. The primary game plan focuses on deploying early ramp creatures and cost reducers to cast Pantlaza on Turn 4. Upon entering, Pantlaza triggers Discover 4 to cheat another permanent into play without paying its mana cost. The deck leverages heavy tribal payoffs like Gishath, Sun's Avatar, Vaultborn Tyrant, and Etali, Primal Conqueror to generate immense card advantage, build a wide board of trampling behemoths, and trigger cascading Discover abilities each turn. It closes out the table around Turn 7 using overwhelming combat overrun effects such as Akroma's Will and Unnatural Growth, or asymmetric burn via Wrathful Raptors combined with Blasphemous Act. While weak to instant-speed combo decks and mass exile board wipes, the list boasts exceptional resilience, high threat density, and rapid engine recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bronzebeak Foragers
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curator of Sun's Creation
  • 1 Curious Altisaur
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Devil Dinosaur
  • 1 Don't Move
  • 1 Earthshaker Dreadmaw
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flaming Tyrannosaurus
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta and Mavren
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People
  • 1 Hunting Velociraptor
  • 1 Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath
  • 1 Ixalli's Lorekeeper
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kindred Summons
  • 1 Kinjalli's Caller
  • 1 Kinjalli's Sunwing
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Monster Manual // Zoological Study
  • 1 Monstrous Vortex
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation
  • 1 Otepec Huntmaster
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Pugnacious Hammerskull
  • 1 Rampaging Brontodon
  • 1 Ravenous Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Regisaur Alpha
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ripjaw Raptor
  • 1 Sawhorn Nemesis
  • 1 Scion of Calamity
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunfrill Imitator
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swooping Pteranodon
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple Altisaur
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Topiary Stomper
  • 1 Traverse the Outlands
  • 1 Triumphant Chomp
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wakening Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Wrathful Raptors
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn