Dinodaurs by MooseCats

Format: Commander

Creator: MooseCats

Commander: Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Naya Dinosaur tribal stompy strategy piloted by Gishath, Sun's Avatar. Its main objective is accelerating mana through 2- and 3-CMC land ramp spells to deploy Gishath on Turn 6. With built-in haste, trample, and vigilance, Gishath attacks the turn it enters, dealing heavy combat damage and cheating multiple large Dinosaurs directly from the top of the library onto the battlefield. The deck compounds this board advantage with trampling beaters like Quartzwood Crasher, card draw engines like Vaultborn Tyrant, and game-ending overrun effects like Akroma's Will. While it features high redundancy and resilience due to standalone bombs such as Etali, Primal Storm and Pantlaza, Sun-Favored, it relies heavily on connecting in combat. As a result, it is vulnerable to well-timed spot removal before damage, board wipes, and counterspells targeting its 8-mana commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arch of Orazca
  • 1 Atzocan Seer
  • 1 Bellowing Aegisaur
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bronzebeak Foragers
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curious Altisaur
  • 1 Deathgorge Scavenger
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Dinosaur Egg
  • 1 Drover of the Mighty
  • 1 Earthshaker Dreadmaw
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 From the Rubble
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kinjalli's Sunwing
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Marauding Raptor
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Monk Gyatso
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Otepec Huntmaster
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polyraptor
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Raging Regisaur
  • 1 Rampaging Brontodon
  • 1 Ranging Raptors
  • 1 Ravenous Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Regal Behemoth
  • 1 Regisaur Alpha
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Runic Armasaur
  • 1 Scion of Calamity
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Temple Altisaur
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Thundering Spineback
  • 1 Topiary Stomper
  • 1 Triceraton Commander
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wakening Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Wrathful Raptors
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity