Dino Go Brrr

Format: Commander

Commander: Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Gruul stompy engine focused on accelerating into Etali, Primal Conqueror ahead of curve. Leveraging dense low-cost mana dorks, rocks, and red rituals like Geosurge and Seething Song, the list aims to deploy Etali by Turn 4. Upon resolution, Etali triggers a massive resource swing by casting the top nonland card from each player's library for free. The deck capitalizes on this entry trigger using clone spells like Molten Duplication, Heat Shimmer, and Cursed Mirror, as well as value multipliers such as Panharmonicon and Roaming Throne. Should the primary combat beatdown plan encounter resistance, an alternate infinite win condition exists via Food Chain and Squee, the Immortal, providing infinite creature mana to loop Etali and cast all nonland spells across the entire table. Protection like Delighted Halfling, Hexing Squelcher, and Deflecting Swat safeguards key casting windows.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Eldrazi Confluence
  • 1 Electroduplicate
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Eternal Scourge
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Heat Shimmer
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hunting Velociraptor
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Marauding Raptor
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Polyraptor
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rionya, Fire Dancer
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Silent Arbiter
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 World War Hulk
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth