Dino by Devan0717

Format: Commander

Creator: Devan0717

Commander: Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Naya Dinosaur tribal stompy strategy commanded by Pantlaza, Sun-Favored. The primary game plan spends the initial three turns deploying land-based ramp to ensure consistent access to all three colors. On Turn 4, Pantlaza enters and immediately triggers Discover 4, generating free tempo and board presence. On subsequent turns, the deck casts massive prehistoric threats that trigger higher-value Discover abilities and overwhelm opposing blockers with trample and combat buffs. Game-ending bombs such as Gishath, Sun's Avatar, Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, and Etali, Primal Conqueror create massive life-total swings starting on Turn 6. Because the list relies almost entirely on combat damage, it closes the game across two opponent response cycles, eliminating the table around Turn 8. While its proactive creature pressure is formidable, the deck features minimal instant-speed interaction and is inherently vulnerable to opposing board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agonasaur Rex
  • 1 Ajani's Anguish
  • 1 Ancient Imperiosaur
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Belligerent Yearling
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Daydream
  • 1 Destructive Revelry
  • 1 Earthshaker Dreadmaw
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Forerunner of the Empire
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Monument
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta and Mavren
  • 1 Ghalta the Immovable
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Knight of the Stampede
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lurking Predators
  • 1 Majestic Heliopterus
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Needletooth Raptor
  • 1 Palani's Hatcher
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Poetic Ingenuity
  • 1 Rampaging Brontodon
  • 1 Rampaging Ceratops
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Rampaging Raptor
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Regal Imperiosaur
  • 1 Restless Ridgeline
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Shifting Ceratops
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Teleportation Circle
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 The Tarrasque
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Track Down
  • 1 Transmogrify
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn