Gish and the raptors by dombeaver

Format: Commander

Commander: Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Naya Dinosaur tribal deck helmed by Gishath, Sun's Avatar, built around one simple loop: ramp hard, cast Gishath, and let his haste-powered combat trigger dump an army of Dinosaurs onto the battlefield for free. The deck runs a dense ramp package - dorks, rocks, and land-tutors - to hit eight mana by turns 4-5, then uses Gishath's repeated hits plus secondary cheat engines (Etali, Primal Storm, Etali, Primal Conqueror, Pantlaza, Sun-Favored, Huatli, Poet of Unity) to bury opponents in overwhelming board presence. The primary win is combat damage from a swarm of trampling, enraged Dinosaurs, but the deck also carries a genuine infinite-combo channel built around Polyraptor + Marauding Raptor/Forerunner of the Empire with a damage payoff. It is a straightforward, high-variance, board-dictating strategy that wins by sheer mass.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Ajani's Presence
• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 Apex Altisaur
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Atzocan Seer
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
• 1 Boros Signet
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dreadmaw's Ire
• 1 Earthshaker Dreadmaw
• 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
• 1 Etali, Primal Storm
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fertile Ground
• 1 Fiery Confluence
• 1 Forerunner of the Empire
• 9 Forest
• 1 Ghalta and Mavren
• 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
• 1 Guttural Response
• 1 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People
• 1 Hulking Raptor
• 1 Ilysian Caryatid
• 1 Intrepid Paleontologist
• 1 Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath
• 1 Jungle Shrine
• 1 Kessig Wolf Run
• 1 Kinjalli's Caller
• 1 Kinjalli's Sunwing
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Make a Stand
• 1 Mana Tithe
• 1 Marauding Raptor
• 1 Migration Path
• 1 Mind Stone
• 8 Mountain
• 1 Nature's Rhythm
• 1 Otepec Huntmaster
• 1 Pandemonium
• 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 6 Plains
• 1 Polyraptor
• 1 Quartzwood Crasher
• 1 Raptor Hatchling
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Rite of Passage
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Talisman of Impulse
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 The Tarrasque
• 1 Thrashing Brontodon
• 1 Thriving Bluff
• 1 Thriving Grove
• 1 Thriving Heath
• 1 Thunderherd Migration
• 1 Titanoth Rex
• 1 Topiary Stomper
• 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
• 1 Utopia Sprawl
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
• 1 Wakening Sun's Avatar
• 1 Warstorm Surge
• 1 Wrathful Raptors
• 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
• 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
• 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn