Hehe Rawr by SkullSketch14

Format: Commander

Commander: Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Naya Dinosaur Tribal battlecruiser strategy built around Gishath, Sun's Avatar. The primary objective is to spend the early turns deploying ramp spells and tribal cost-reducers such as Kinjalli's Caller, Thunderherd Migration, Cultivate, and Knight of the Stampede to accelerate toward Gishath's 8-mana casting cost. Upon hitting the battlefield on Turn 6, Gishath attacks immediately thanks to built-in haste and trample, leveraging combat damage to cheat multiple high-impact Dinosaurs from the top of the library directly into play. The resulting board of massive threats—such as Zetalpa, Primal Dawn, Ghalta, Primal Hunger, and Etali, Primal Storm—overwhelms opponents through combat damage across Turns 7 and 8. While the deck boasts high battlefield velocity and threat density once operational, it relies heavily on natural draws for protection and interaction, making it vulnerable to well-timed spot removal on Gishath or broad creature sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Imperiosaur
  • 1 Angelfire Ignition
  • 1 Annoyed Altisaur
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bellowing Aegisaur
  • 1 Blossoming Sands
  • 1 Burning Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Charging Monstrosaur
  • 1 Charging Tuskodon
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crushing Canopy
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dinosaur Stampede
  • 1 Drover of the Mighty
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fertile Thicket
  • 1 Forerunner of the Empire
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta and Mavren
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Giant Cindermaw
  • 1 Gift of Paradise
  • 1 Gigantosaurus
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Harnessed Snubhorn
  • 1 Huatli, Dinosaur Knight
  • 1 Huatli, Warrior Poet
  • 1 Hunter's Prowess
  • 1 Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kinjalli's Caller
  • 1 Knight of the Stampede
  • 1 Kogla and Yidaro
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Needletooth Raptor
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Priest of the Wakening Sun
  • 1 Primal Might
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Radiant Grove
  • 1 Raging Regisaur
  • 1 Raging Swordtooth
  • 1 Rallying Roar
  • 1 Rampaging Brontodon
  • 1 Raptor Hatchling
  • 1 Ripjaw Raptor
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Root Snare
  • 1 Sacred Peaks
  • 1 Sandstone Bridge
  • 1 Sarkhan's Unsealing
  • 1 Savage Stomp
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Siegehorn Ceratops
  • 1 Sky Terror
  • 1 Smoldering Spires
  • 1 Snapping Sailback
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spider Manifestation
  • 1 Stone Quarry
  • 1 Sun-Blessed Mount
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temple Altisaur
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Territorial Hammerskull
  • 1 The Tarrasque
  • 1 Thunderherd Migration
  • 1 Thundering Spineback
  • 1 Titanic Ultimatum
  • 1 Topiary Stomper
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Tranquil Frillback
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Whisperer of the Wilds
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn