Dino's (Trible) by redhound

Format: Commander

Commander: Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a high-power Naya Dinosaur "big mana, bigger beaters" deck built to maximize Gishath, Sun's Avatar. The game plan is to accelerate through dinosaur cost reducers like Kinjalli's Caller, Knight of the Stampede, Otepec Huntmaster, Marauding Raptor, and Urza's Incubator, then cast Gishath and smash face. Gishath's attack trigger turns every connecting hit into a miniature Dinosaur army, cheating creatures like Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, Zacama, Primal Calamity, and Etali, Primal Conqueror onto the battlefield for free. The deck supports this with explosive card draw ("draw equal to power/toughness" effects), a substantial ramp package, and a small but meaningful suite of protection and interaction. Secondary paths include the haste-granting Regisaur Alpha and Xenagos, God of Revels pumping a trampling dinosaur into a one-shot commander KO, plus the free-cast value of the two Etalis.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atzocan Seer
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Commune with Dinosaurs
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dino DNA
  • 1 Earthshaker Dreadmaw
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghalta and Mavren
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Goring Ceratops
  • 1 Green Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People
  • 1 Hunting Velociraptor
  • 1 Intrepid Paleontologist
  • 1 Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kinjalli's Caller
  • 1 Knight of the Stampede
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Marauding Raptor
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Otepec Huntmaster
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Priest of the Wakening Sun
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Regal Behemoth
  • 1 Regisaur Alpha
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Scion of Calamity
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swooping Pteranodon
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Altisaur
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Tarrasque
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Wakening Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn