Eggcelent

Format: Commander

Commander: Atla Palani, Nest Tender

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a high-impact Naya cheat strategy commanded by Atla Palani, Nest Tender. The primary game plan revolves around rapidly casting Atla, producing 0/1 Egg tokens, and immediately sacrificing or destroying them to reveal and cheat massive, game-ending threats into play directly from the library. The payoff suite features devastating haymakers such as Blightsteel Colossus, Worldspine Wurm, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, and Terror of the Peaks, which apply immense pressure or end the game in short order. While the deck boasts format-warping board states once the engine starts turning, it relies heavily on Atla Palani remaining on the battlefield alongside a sacrifice outlet. A lack of artifact and enchantment tutoring means the deck occasionally struggles to find sacrifice outlets on demand, leaving it somewhat vulnerable to targeted removal pointed at the commander before an Egg can be broken.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Akroma's Will
• 1 Apex Altisaur
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Artisan of Kozilek
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Atla Palani, Nest Tender
• 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1 Balefire Dragon
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blightsteel Colossus
• 1 Boros Charm
• 1 Bountiful Promenade
• 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
• 1 Chandra's Ignition
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Congregation at Dawn
• 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Culling Dais
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dragonlord Atarka
• 1 Etali, Primal Storm
• 1 Evolutionary Leap
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 8 Forest
• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Ghalta and Mavren
• 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
• 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
• 1 Goblin Bombardment
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 High Market
• 1 Karmic Guide
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Kogla and Yidaro
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Marauding Raptor
• 1 Martyr's Cause
• 1 Maskwood Nexus
• 1 Mirri's Guile
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
• 1 Palani's Hatcher
• 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
• 5 Plains
• 1 Plateau
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Polyraptor
• 1 Quicksilver Amulet
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reprieve
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rishkar's Expertise
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Savannah
• 1 Scroll Rack
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spawning Pit
• 1 Spectator Seating
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Taiga
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 Terastodon
• 1 Terror of the Peaks
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Thornbite Staff
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Tooth and Nail
• 1 Turbulent Steppe
• 1 Tyrranax Rex
• 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1 Warstorm Surge
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Woodfall Primus
• 1 Worldspine Wurm
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity