Ian Laying Eggs or Whatever by AFRICANbearguY

Format: Commander

Commander: Atla Palani, Nest Tender

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck leverages Atla Palani, Nest Tender to cheat game-ending Dinosaurs straight from the library onto the battlefield. Built as a high-synergy Naya midrange deck, it uses cheap ramp to cast Atla on Turn 3, generates Egg tokens on Turn 4, and cracks them using sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar and Fanatical Devotion or damage enablers like Marauding Raptor. Hatching an Egg flips directly into terrifying behemoths including Gishath, Sun's Avatar, Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness, and Vaultborn Tyrant. Token doublers such as Mondrak, Glory Dominus and Doubling Season rapidly multiply board presence. While the deck lacks stack interaction and relies on combat damage to eliminate opponents across two response cycles, its immense card advantage, combat resilience, and redundant apex threats provide relentless, overwhelming pressure that quickly crushes opposing life totals.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Atla Palani, Nest Tender
  • 1 Atzocan Seer
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Dinosaur Egg
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Drover of the Mighty
  • 1 Earthshaker Dreadmaw
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fanatical Devotion
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Ghalta and Mavren
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Hunting Velociraptor
  • 1 Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Krosan Verge
  • 1 Life Finds a Way
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Marauding Raptor
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Naya Charm
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Otepec Huntmaster
  • 1 Palani's Hatcher
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Primal Vigor
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ranging Raptors
  • 1 Ravenous Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Regisaur Alpha
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rootborn Defenses
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Savage Order
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Sheltering Landscape
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sundering Growth
  • 1 Sunfrill Imitator
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Titanoth Rex
  • 1 Topiary Stomper
  • 1 Tyrranax Rex
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wayta, Trainer Prodigy
  • 1 Wrathful Raptors
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity