A Tale of Bikes and Bones by user7151726

Format: Commander

Commander: Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Bant "cyclosaurus" value deck, helmed by Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists, is built around a critical mass of high-mana-value creatures with cycling. Fluctuator and New Perspectives turn those cyclers into cheap, repeatable card draw, while Monument to Endurance converts every discard into cards, treasures, or burn. The commander exiles creature cards from the graveyard to Discover X, turning cycled, milled, or surveilled creatures into free spells from the top of the library. The deck wins primarily through overwhelming trampling beatdown - Ghalta, Primal Hunger, Titanoth Rex, and Greater Sandwurm backed by Garruk's Uprising and Surrak and Goreclaw - with a secondary Intruder Alarm + mana dork + draw engine + Laboratory Maniac combo line. It is a slow, value-dense engine that grinds card advantage before closing with haymakers.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Agonasaur Rex
• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 Alabaster Host Intercessor
• 1 Angel of the Ruins
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Astral Drift
• 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1 Balamb T-Rexaur
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Burgeoning
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Captain America, Living Legend
• 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
• 1 Chulane, Teller of Tales
• 1 Colossal Skyturtle
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Curator of Mysteries
• 1 Daggermaw Megalodon
• 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists
• 1 Elvish Aberration
• 1 Eternal Dragon
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exploration
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Final Showdown
• 1 Fluctuator
• 7 Forest
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Generous Ent
• 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1 Giant Koi
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Greater Sandwurm
• 1 Greater Tanuki
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hedge Maze
• 1 Helga, Skittish Seer
• 1 Herald of the Forgotten
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Icetill Explorer
• 1 Intruder Alarm
• 4 Island
• 1 Kellan, the Kid
• 1 Krosan Tusker
• 1 Lunar Hatchling
• 1 Lush Portico
• 1 Marauding Brinefang
• 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
• 1 Meticulous Archive
• 1 Monstrous Vortex
• 1 Monument to Endurance
• 1 New Perspectives
• 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
• 1 Nurturing Bristleback
• 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
• 2 Plains
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Saber-Tooth Moose-Lion
• 1 Seaside Citadel
• 1 Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
• 1 Shefet Monitor
• 1 Slash the Ranks
• 1 Slavering Branchsnapper
• 1 Soaring Sandwing
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spara's Headquarters
• 1 Spinewoods Armadillo
• 1 Splendor Mare
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 The Great Henge
• 1 The Thirteenth Doctor
• 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1 Timberland Ancient
• 1 Titanoth Rex
• 1 Ultimate Magic: Holy
• 1 Up the Beanstalk
• 1 Vana'diel Adventurers
• 1 Vega, the Watcher
• 1 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1 Waker of Waves
• 1 Walk with the Ancestors