Egg Keeper (B4) by GreenGiant45

Format: Commander

Commander: Atla Palani, Nest Tender

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This Atla Palani, Nest Tender deck is an explosive creature-cheat and combo-midrange build designed to bypass heavy casting costs and deploy towering threats directly from the library. Powered by 13 pieces of 1-2 CMC ramp, Atla consistently enters the battlefield on Turn 3. On Turn 4, the deck uses free sacrifice outlets or damage triggers to crack 0/1 Egg tokens, revealing colossal creatures such as Blightsteel Colossus, Worldspine Wurm, Terror of the Peaks, and Etali, Primal Conqueror. Beyond overwhelming combat pressure, the deck contains a decisive 3-piece infinite combo with Atla Palani, Thornbite Staff, and Ashnod's Altar, which empties the creature base onto the battlefield and burns out the entire table in a single turn. Backed by free protection spells like Deflecting Swat and Flawless Maneuver, high-utility removal, and resilient shuffle-into-library triggers, the deck presents high threat density and rapid closing speed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Atla Palani, Nest Tender
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Congregation at Dawn
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dinosaur Egg
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatical Devotion
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Marauding Raptor
  • 1 Martyr's Cause
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nesting Dragon
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Palani's Hatcher
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth