There's a Dino In Here Somewhere by TylerJ

Format: Commander

Commander: Trostani, Selesnya's Voice

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Selesnya midrange deck commanded by Trostani, Selesnya's Voice. The deck aims to leverage dense turn-one and turn-two ramp to accelerate out Trostani and high-impact token generators such as Gruff Triplets, Giant Adephage, and Rampaging Baloths. By generating tokens with substantial power and toughness, Trostani buffers the player's life total while copying the best creature tokens every turn cycle via populate. Card draw engines like Elemental Bond and Garruk's Packleader reward this strategy with consistent card flow. Opponents are systematically pressured starting around turn 6 with overwhelming trampling bodies, finalized by overrun effects like Overwhelming Stampede or a pumped Finale of Devastation. While the deck features robust recovery and independent stompy threats, it remains vulnerable to board wipes and lack of stack interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blossoming Sands
  • 1 Caravan Vigil
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Cliffside Rescuer
  • 1 Colossal Majesty
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 2 Concerted Effort
  • 1 Conclave Evangelist
  • 1 Crumb and Get It
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Desolation Twin
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Druid's Deliverance
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elvish Archdruid
  • 1 Emmara Tandris
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Fungal Colossus
  • 1 Gardenize
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Graypelt Refuge
  • 1 Growing Ranks
  • 1 Gruff Triplets
  • 1 Hapatra's Mark
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Jukai Naturalist
  • 1 Krosan Verge
  • 1 Kwia Vigorbloom
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Master of Ceremonies
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Momentous Fall
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Naya Panorama
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Omnipresence
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pay No Heed
  • 1 Pia, Aether Ascetic
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Remember the Fallen
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Slice in Twain
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider-Man, To the Rescue
  • 1 Sundering Growth
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
  • 1 Vigorbloom Charm
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Wayfaring Temple