Praise the Sun-Favored

Format: Commander

Commander: Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Dinosaur tribal stompy strategy commanded by Pantlaza, Sun-Favored. The deck focuses on accelerating mana during the early turns with efficient dorks and land ramp to cast Pantlaza on Turn 4. Once Pantlaza is in play, every subsequent Dinosaur cast triggers the Discover mechanic equal to its toughness, generating massive tempo by casting free spells directly from the library. The deck snowballs this card advantage through power-based draw engines like Elemental Bond, Garruk's Uprising, and Vaultborn Tyrant. Game-ending threats like Gishath, Sun's Avatar, Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, and Etali, Primal Conqueror create massive board states on Turn 5. The deck finishes the game by attacking with overwhelming trampling power, bolstered by haste enablers or decisive finishers such as Akroma's Will and Finale of Devastation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dino DNA
  • 1 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
  • 1 Drover of the Mighty
  • 1 Earthshaker Dreadmaw
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Emiel the Blessed
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flaming Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Flickering Hound
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta and Mavren
  • 1 Ghalta the Unstoppable
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Invasion of Zendikar // Awakened Skyclave
  • 1 Jetmir's Garden
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Monstrous Vortex
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Ravenous Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Regal Behemoth
  • 1 Regisaur Alpha
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
  • 1 Savage Order
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swooping Pteranodon
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tannuk, Steadfast Second
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Topiary Stomper
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Welcome to . . . // Jurassic Park
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wrathful Raptors
  • 1 Zacama, Primal Calamity