Ever since DesolatorMagic's video on his deck, Elzombli, I have been looking at my own ways to spin around the story line in weird and twisted ways. For those who do not know, the Elzombli deck is essentially the idea that zombies were used to fight the eldrazi, so he devised a deck that used zombies to summon eldrazi while still making the zombies bigger. Using this idea, I have been watching the storylines and sets to see about fun combos in general, but when I first heard about Ixalan, I wanted to see a deck where the Pirates rode the Dinosaurs into battle. I waited, fingers crossed, until treasures were announced. I was definitely going to make the deck happen. Then after actually making a treasure/servo deck, I realized that treasures do not have the support. Plus, even if the color red is shared, there weren't enough red treasure makers or pure red dinos. This would have to be a three color deck at least. So, I held off making this for a while. Then while looking through Ixalan cards, I stumbled across Fiery Cannonade but didn't think anything of it, yet. It was just another Pirate tribal. After a while, I restumbled across the enrage ability and thought back to Fiery Cannonade. Well, one thing led to another and I eventually started to do my research in how this deck would work, this flaming/treasure pirates that enraged dinosaurs. I still came up short in both ends, but this is how it shall start, and I am almost sure that I could make it work when Rivals comes out. Until then, enjoy this deck that has treasures summoning dinosaurs and pirates burning everything.
A couple months later, some rivals cards have been spoiled and I believe I have a good deck that has been lowered to just red and green. This is just a prototype either until better cards get leaked or Rivals is fully released.
As of this point, the deck is simple enough: treasure to enrage. Start off with simple cards like Wily Goblin or Captain Lannery Storm to bring out treasures to help bring out large dinosaurs. More specifically:
Gleaming Barrier is a good early game defender to give you time to ramp, then when they can get around it, it turns into ramp.
Trove of Temptation is a great way to get both treasures and forced combat with enrage creatures.
Ballista Charger is one of the biggest creatures from the get go (when it is one) and you can use your dinosaurs to crew it in order to keep them from combat while still triggering enrage. Just all around pretty good.
Bellowing Aegisaur, Silverclad Ferocidons, and Polyraptor are the late game drop, which could easily be turn 5-7. These are used as utility in the deck as is, but you could easily sideboard more copies if you go up a deck needing one of these. These could also be replaced as just about any large creature that could be used to end a game quickly, I just put in the big enrage guys to continue the theme of the deck. You could put in anything like Carnage Tyrant, Gishath, Sun's Avatar, Wakening Sun's Avatar, Zetalpa, Primal Dawn, Zacama, Primal Calamity, etc. The list goes on and isn't even limited to dinosaurs. I would just recommend Trying to stay on color as you usually have a finite amount of treasures to summon them with.
Everything else should be self explanatory. Summon Treasures, activate enrage, draw cards, create tokens, try to win, and have fun seeing Pirates ride Dinosaurs to victory.
I replaced Ballista Charger for Ranging Raptors. Ballista Charger is a decent card for enrage decks, giving them something to hide behind while giving constant triggers, but it just slows down the deck with its mana cost and taking away creatures to make it work. I feel that Ranging Raptors not only reduces the overall mana cost of the deck, but also includes extra mana ramp besides the treasures causing the deck to be able to play that much faster in general.
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