Daryl & the Dinosaurs by Grizzlegrom

Format: Commander

Commander: Hansk, Slayer Zealot

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a specialized Gruul control and attrition strategy commanded by Hansk, Slayer Zealot. The core engine revolves around gifting opponents 2/2 Walker Zombie tokens during each of your upkeeps, then systematically wiping them using Hansk's tap ability or an extensive suite of low-cost, 2-damage board wipes like Pyroclasm, Whipflare, and Fiery Cannonade. Every dead Zombie draws a card, generating immense card advantage. The deck breaks parity on token gifting by utilizing anti-black tech such as Elephant Grass, Pygmy Kavu, and Reap. As card flow accumulates, the deck transitions into powerful Enrage payoffs including Silverclad Ferocidons and Polyraptor, weaponized alongside damage engines like Pyrohemia and Aether Flash. Defense of the Heart is easily enabled by the gifted Walkers, rapidly fetching game-ending creature combinations to close out the table by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Flash
  • 1 Ancient Grudge
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Brotherhood's End
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Cinderclasm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Dingus Staff
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Elephant Grass
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fault Line
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Cannonade
  • 1 Fire Magic
  • 1 Firespout
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Geode Rager
  • 1 Hansk, Slayer Zealot
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Instill Energy
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magmaquake
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Chosen
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Polyraptor
  • 1 Pygmy Kavu
  • 1 Pyroclasm
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ranging Raptors
  • 1 Ratchet Bomb
  • 1 Reap
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ripjaw Raptor
  • 1 Rolling Earthquake
  • 1 Rolling Temblor
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rough // Tumble
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savage Twister
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Silverclad Ferocidons
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Subterranean Tremors
  • 1 Summon: Fenrir
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Varchild's War-Riders
  • 1 Volcanic Fallout
  • 1 Whipflare
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth