Dinos by Aldavon

Format: Commander

Creator: Aldavon

Commander: Zacama, Primal Calamity

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Naya Dinosaur tribal midrange deck commanded by Zacama, Primal Calamity. The primary strategy focuses on deploying a high density of land ramp, mana dorks, and cost-reducing creatures on Turns 1 through 3 to jump ahead of curve. By Turn 5, the deck establishes card-advantage engines like Pantlaza, Sun-Favored or Garruk's Uprising and unlocks massive mana pools. On Turn 6, the deck presents game-ending threats by casting Gishath, Sun's Avatar to cheat a massive board of Dinosaurs into play, or casting Zacama, Primal Calamity to untap all lands and control the board. It wins by overwhelming all three opponents with trample combat damage and damage multipliers by Turn 8. While the deck boasts immense board presence and recovery through raw mana, it lacks tutors, fast stack interaction, and cheap removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 And They Shall Know No Fear
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curious Altisaur
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Devil Dinosaur
  • 1 Dinosaur Stampede
  • 1 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
  • 1 Don't Move
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Earthshaker Dreadmaw
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 17 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta and Mavren
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gigantosaurus
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Knight of the Stampede
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Make a Stand
  • 1 Marauding Raptor
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Mirari's Wake
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otepec Huntmaster
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polyraptor
  • 1 Prehistoric Pet
  • 1 Radiant Destiny
  • 1 Ravenous Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Regal Behemoth
  • 1 Regal Imperiosaur
  • 1 Regisaur Alpha
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Saheeli's Lattice // Mastercraft Raptor
  • 1 Silverclad Ferocidons
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider-Rex, Daring Dino
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Tail Swipe
  • 1 Thundering Spineback
  • 1 Triceraton Commander
  • 1 Tyrranax Atrocity
  • 1 Tyrranax Rex
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wakening Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Welcome to . . . // Jurassic Park
  • 1 Wooded Bastion
  • 1 Wrathful Raptors
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn