Dinos by user8245924

Format: Commander

Commander: Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This Naya Dinosaur deck uses Pantlaza, Sun-Favored as an explosive value engine to accelerate large prehistoric threats onto the battlefield. The strategy focuses on ramping through turns 1 to 3, casting Pantlaza on turn 4, and leveraging its Discover ability on every subsequent turn. By chaining enters-the-battlefield triggers from heavyweight Dinosaurs like Etali, Primal Conqueror, Gishath, Sun's Avatar, and Quartzwood Crasher, the deck rapidly generates massive power and board presence. Win conditions center on overwhelming trampling combat damage, augmented by power-doublers and sweepers like Titanic Ultimatum, Chandra's Ignition, and Isengard Unleashed. While the deck possesses immense creature redundancy and natural resilience through Discover card flow, its interaction suite is primarily sorcery-speed and lacks cheap instant-speed answers to fast combo strategies. Defensively, it relies on haste enablers and board protection to close out games within two combat cycles after establishing critical threat onset.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Imperiosaur
  • 1 Angelfire Ignition
  • 1 Atla Palani, Nest Tender
  • 1 Belligerent Yearling
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Blitzball
  • 1 Blossoming Sands
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 2 Command Tower
  • 1 Crossroads Village
  • 1 Descendants' Path
  • 1 Dino DNA
  • 1 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
  • 1 Don't Move
  • 1 Elvish Piper
  • 1 Empty City Ruse
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explorer's Scope
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta and Mavren
  • 1 Gishath, Sun's Avatar
  • 1 Huatli, Dinosaur Knight
  • 1 Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Hunting Grounds
  • 1 Hunting Velociraptor
  • 1 Intrepid Paleontologist
  • 1 Isengard Unleashed
  • 1 Jungle Shrine
  • 1 Kabira Crossroads
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kinjalli's Sunwing
  • 1 Knight of the Stampede
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Manalith
  • 1 Marauding Raptor
  • 1 Mirage Mesa
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Naya Panorama
  • 1 Palani's Hatcher
  • 1 Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polyraptor
  • 1 Promise of Tomorrow
  • 1 Pyrewood Gearhulk
  • 1 Quartzwood Crasher
  • 1 Rabanastre, Royal City
  • 1 Ranging Raptors
  • 1 Ravenous Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Restless Ridgeline
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Ripjaw Raptor
  • 1 Rith's Grove
  • 1 Runic Armasaur
  • 1 Savage Mansion
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Scytheclaw Raptor
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Selvala's Stampede
  • 1 Sky Terror
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Stone Quarry
  • 1 Sunfrill Imitator
  • 1 Swooping Pteranodon
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 The Skullspore Nexus
  • 1 Thriving Heath
  • 1 Timber Gorge
  • 1 Titanic Ultimatum
  • 1 Tranquil Expanse
  • 1 Tranquil Frillback
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Wrathful Raptors