Dinosaurs by TokDega1986

Format: Commander

Commander: Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Naya Dinosaur stompy deck built around Gishath, Sun's Avatar, with a single dominant plan: reach eight mana as fast as possible, then turn every Gishath combat into a miniature "cheat Dinosaurs into play" engine. The threat base is the tribal suite of oversized creatures - Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness, Zacama, Primal Calamity, Zetalpa, Primal Dawn, and Wakening Sun's Avatar - and Gishath's haste means the first attack never wastes a turn. Supporting pieces include Pantlaza, Sun-Favored as a hidden commander that turns each Dinosaur ETB into a free discover, cost reducers like Kinjalli's Caller and Otepec Huntmaster, and an enrage package built around Ranging Raptors and Raging Swordtooth. The deck wins through overwhelming trampling combat, not combos, and it has almost no stack interaction, so its games are defined by whether Gishath connects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atzocan Seer
  • 1 Belligerent Yearling
  • 1 Bronzebeak Foragers
  • 1 Burning Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Colossadactyl
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Curious Altisaur
  • 1 Deathgorge Scavenger
  • 1 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
  • 1 Drover of the Mighty
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Gigantosaurus
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Grazing Whiptail
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Hunting Velociraptor
  • 1 Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath
  • 1 Ixalli's Lorekeeper
  • 1 Kinjalli's Caller
  • 1 Kinjalli's Sunwing
  • 1 Knight of the Stampede
  • 1 Majestic Heliopterus
  • 1 Marauding Raptor
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Otepec Huntmaster
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Priest of the Wakening Sun
  • 1 Pugnacious Hammerskull
  • 1 Raging Regisaur
  • 1 Raging Swordtooth
  • 1 Ranging Raptors
  • 1 Ravenous Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Regal Behemoth
  • 1 Regal Imperiosaur
  • 1 Regisaur Alpha
  • 1 Relentless Raptor
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Runic Armasaur
  • 1 Scion of Calamity
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Shifting Ceratops
  • 1 Siegehorn Ceratops
  • 1 Silverclad Ferocidons
  • 1 Sky Terror
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunfrill Imitator
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Temple Altisaur
  • 1 Territorial Hammerskull
  • 1 Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca
  • 1 The Tarrasque
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Thunderherd Migration
  • 1 Thundering Spineback
  • 1 Triumphant Chomp
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Tyrranax Rex
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wakening Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Welcome to . . . // Jurassic Park
  • 1 Wrathful Raptors
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn