Gishath by user4017164

Format: Commander

Commander: Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Naya deck executes a dedicated tribal stompy strategy centered on its commander, Gishath, Sun's Avatar. The primary game plan commits early turns to extensive mana acceleration, using an exceptionally dense suite of twenty-six ramp spells, mana dorks, and cost-reducing creatures to produce eight mana by Turn 5. Once cast, Gishath attacks immediately with haste and trample, leveraging combat damage to cheat massive Dinosaur threats directly from the library onto the battlefield. Supporting enchantments like Garruk's Uprising, Elemental Bond, and Rhythm of the Wild ensure that entering creatures draw cards, gain haste, and evade counterspells. The deck finishes games through overwhelming combat damage across two attack cycles, amplified by high-impact beaters like Quartzwood Crasher, Goring Ceratops, and Zetalpa, Primal Dawn. While resilient against single-target removal thanks to instant-speed protection spells, the deck remains vulnerable to early board wipes and lacks stack-based countermagic or proactive stax pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atzocan Seer
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blacksmith's Skill
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cream of the Crop
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Drover of the Mighty
  • 1 Earthshaker Dreadmaw
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fields of Strife
  • 1 Fires of Yavimaya
  • 1 Fog
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goring Ceratops
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Inspiring Vantage
  • 1 Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath
  • 1 Ixalli's Lorekeeper
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kinjalli's Caller
  • 1 Knight of the Stampede
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Majestic Heliopterus
  • 1 Make a Stand
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Naya Charm
  • 1 Naya Panorama
  • 1 Otepec Huntmaster
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Poetic Ingenuity
  • 1 Progenitor's Icon
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Rampaging Brontodon
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Regisaur Alpha
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Ripjaw Raptor
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Temple Altisaur
  • 1 Thornscape Familiar
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Thunderherd Migration
  • 1 Thundering Spineback
  • 1 Topiary Stomper
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Wakening Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn