Ian Malcolm, Egg Tender v014 by diffidentdilligaf

Format: Commander

Commander: Dr. Ian Malcolm

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic Atla Palani, Nest Tender egg-cheat Dinosaur deck that turns sacrificial 0/1 Eggs into free high-CMC stompy threats. The core loop is simple: cast Atla, produce Eggs, crack them with outlets like Ashnod's Altar, Goblin Bombardment, or Blasting Station, and cascade into Elders such as Gishath, Sun's Avatar, Zacama, Primal Calamity, Etali, Primal Conqueror, and the Ghalta suite. Token doublers (Parallel Lives, Anointed Procession) and Thornbite Staff convert the engine into infinite mana, infinite creatures, or infinite damage. Secondary plans include fair Dinosaur tribal via Pantlaza, Sun-Favored discover, Gishath, Sun's Avatar combat cascades, and overwhelming trample boards backed by Quartzwood Crasher and Ghalta and Mavren. The deck wins through combat damage or sacrificial ping loops once the Nest Tender engine is online.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bellowing Aegisaur
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Colossal Majesty
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curious Altisaur
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Determined Iteration
  • 1 Devil Dinosaur
  • 1 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
  • 1 Dr. Ian Malcolm
  • 1 Earthshaker Dreadmaw
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta and Mavren
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Godzilla, Primeval Champion
  • 1 Growing Ranks
  • 1 Harnessed Snubhorn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Kinjalli's Sunwing
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Life Finds a Way
  • 1 Majestic Heliopterus
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Migrating Ketradon
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Palani's Hatcher
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Rampaging Brontodon
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scion of Calamity
  • 1 Silverclad Ferocidons
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spinosaurus
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Temple Altisaur
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Party Tree
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Thrasta, Tempest's Roar
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Triceraton Commander
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Tyrannosaurus Rex
  • 1 Tyrranax Rex
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn