Dinos by Mustanghead289

Format: Commander

Commander: Atla Palani, Nest Tender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Naya deck is commanded by Atla Palani, Nest Tender and focuses on cheating massive, game-ending Dinosaurs onto the battlefield. By generating 0/1 Egg tokens and sacrificing them with outlets like Goblin Bombardment, Altar of Dementia, or Skullclamp, the deck triggers Atla's ability to polymorph top-deck cards directly into apex predators like Gishath, Sun's Avatar, Etali, Primal Conqueror, Apex Altisaur, and Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant. Mana acceleration on turns 1 and 2 ensures Atla lands on turn 3, allowing the engine to assemble by turn 4 and present lethal board states on turn 5. Supporting draw engines such as Garruk's Uprising and Elemental Bond keep hands full, while Wrathful Raptors and Great Train Heist amplify combat damage to close the game across turns 6 and 7. The deck is resilient to removal through repeatable commander recast lines and backup cheat effects like Savage Order.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Atla Palani, Nest Tender
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dino DNA
  • 1 Don't Move
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Earthshaker Dreadmaw
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatical Devotion
  • 1 Farseek
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta and Mavren
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Ghired, Mirror of the Wilds
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Gigantosaurus
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Great Train Heist
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Hunting Velociraptor
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kinjalli's Sunwing
  • 1 Kogla and Yidaro
  • 1 Life Finds a Way
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Marauding Raptor
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Otepec Huntmaster
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Palani's Hatcher
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Raging Swordtooth
  • 1 Rampaging Brontodon
  • 1 Ranging Raptors
  • 1 Ravenous Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Regisaur Alpha
  • 1 Restless Ridgeline
  • 1 Ripjaw Raptor
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Savage Order
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Silverclad Ferocidons
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tilonalli's Skinshifter
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Tyrranax Rex
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wakening Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Welcome to . . . // Jurassic Park
  • 1 Wrathful Raptors
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn