dino precon by ChungyT

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghalta, Primal Hunger

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This is a straightforward mono-green stompy deck. It accelerates with mana creatures and Sol Ring, deploys creatures with unusually high power, and uses that power to reduce Ghalta, Primal Hunger's cost. Garruk's Uprising, Elemental Bond, Beast Whisperer, and related cards turn creature deployment into card flow. The deck's best attacks come from Unnatural Growth, Overwhelming Stampede, Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma, and Surrak and Goreclaw, which add trample or multiply combat damage. The plan is powerful once several creatures are in play, but it is not compact: the deck has no infinite combo, no stack interaction, few tutors, and limited protection from sweepers. Its normal critical turn is around turn 7, with a turn-9 table finish when attacks remain available. It is a strong casual or mid-power creature deck rather than a competitive Commander construction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bite Down
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Carnage Tyrant
  • 1 Challenger Troll
  • 1 Clifftop Lookout
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Colossal Majesty
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Curious Altisaur
  • 1 Dungrove Elder
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 32 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gigantosaurus
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hulking Raptor
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Tribe
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Monstrous Onslaught
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Pugnacious Hammerskull
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Regal Imperiosaur
  • 1 Rhonas the Indomitable
  • 1 Rhonas's Monument
  • 1 Ripjaw Raptor
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Scrapshooter
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steel Leaf Champion
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Surrak, the Hunt Caller
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Tangleweave Armor
  • 1 Terrian, World Tyrant
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Verdant Sun's Avatar
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Whiptongue Hydra
  • 1 Whisperer of the Wilds
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Yeva, Nature's Herald