Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists by user5924596

Format: Commander

Commander: Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists helm a Bant midrange deck built around graveyard-fueled discovery, dinosaur tribal, and landfall-adjacent explore synergy. The primary game plan involves filling the graveyard via cycling/landcycling creatures and explore triggers, then activating the commander to exile a creature card and discover into powerful spells-often high-CMC dinosaurs like Carnage Tyrant or Regal Behemoth. The deck also leverages recursion (Praetor's Counsel, Greenwarden of Murasa), token generation (Map tokens, Borough Backup), and the occasional stax piece (Intruder Alarm) to grind out value. The win condition is overwhelmingly combat damage from large, evasive creatures, supported by card advantage engines like Greater Good and Path of Discovery. While the strategy is synergistic, it is slow and heavily dependent on graveyard access and the commander's activation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Archmage Ascension
  • 1 Arctic Flats
  • 1 Armillary Sphere
  • 1 Armored Kincaller
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Avengers Hangar
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Balamb T-Rexaur
  • 1 Bioengineered Future
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Bond of Insight
  • 1 Borough Backup
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Brackish Blunder
  • 1 Cacophodon
  • 1 Calciform Pools
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 Colossal Skyturtle
  • 1 Conservatory
  • 1 Coral Atoll
  • 1 Damage Control Crew
  • 1 Distant Memories
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dungeon Map
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Ellie and Alan, Paleontologists
  • 1 Elvish Aberration
  • 1 Enter the Unknown
  • 1 Eternal Scourge
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fog
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Giant Koi
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Greenwarden of Murasa
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Ice Flan
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Lodestone Needle // Guidestone Compass
  • 1 Long-Term Plans
  • 1 Lunar Hatchling
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Majestic Heliopterus
  • 1 Map the Frontier
  • 1 Marauding Brinefang
  • 1 Meticulous Excavation
  • 1 Migrating Ketradon
  • 1 Misthollow Griffin
  • 1 Nurturing Bristleback
  • 1 Ornery Dilophosaur
  • 1 Pair o' Dice Lost
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Pathfinding Axejaw
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Praetor's Counsel
  • 1 Pull from Eternity
  • 1 Rabaroo Troop
  • 1 Regal Behemoth
  • 1 Renegade Map
  • 1 Riftsweeper
  • 1 Ripjaw Raptor
  • 1 Sanctum Plowbeast
  • 1 Sentinel of the Nameless City
  • 1 Siegehorn Ceratops
  • 1 Soaring Sandwing
  • 1 Twists and Turns // Mycoid Maze
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Wingfold Pteron
  • 1 World Map
  • 1 Worldwalker Helm