Etali, Primal Conqueror

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

Trample

When Etali, Primal Conqueror enters the battlefield, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among the nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

{9}{GP}: Transform Etali. Activate this ability only as a sorcery.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (23)

D3tergent on raggadragga, gorguts boss

1 day ago

Thanks Long_Con, I replaced Rainveil Rejuvenator very recently for Mona Lisa, Science Geek. But yes you are right I should find a spot for Etali, Primal Conqueror.

Long_Con on raggadragga, gorguts boss

4 days ago

Hey, just checking out other Ragga decks for ideas, mine is Raggadragga Mana Saga and it consistently delivers a stream of fatties by turn 5-6. I see you have a great selection of power-scaling mana dorks in Heronblade Elite, Kami of Whispered Hopes, and the others. Rainveil Rejuvenator is out there, worth it I think for 1 more mana, considering these guys run the engine of the deck. You can also cast things off the back of another creature's toughness via Arbor Adherent... not self-scaling, but if you cast a big fatty as the first one, you can riff off that while your dog druid gets bigger as well.

I have some excellent ideas about the 7+CMC spells that trigger the Ragga goodness as well, if you want to have a look. Summon: Bahamut and Tyrranax Rex are great ones, and Etali, Primal Conqueror is better in this deck than any other, arguably.

clayperce on Which Mono-Color is the Most …

1 month ago

My hot take:

The most powerful mono-color in EDH is Red and I don't think it's even close. NOT because Red is inherently great (in fact, I 100% agree with all the points made above, showing Red generally at the bottom). But because Red has the most busted mono-color Commanders.

Do we want to build an S-tier mono-color cEDH deck? Then we're on Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh, Etali, Primal Conqueror  ^Flip, Magda, Brazen Outlaw, or Ral, Monsoon Mage  ^Flip.

Mono-White, -Blue, and -Green don't show up to the party until high-A tier (Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful, Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator, and Lumra, Bellow of the Woods), and Mono-Black finally arrives in mid-A, with Gwenom, Remorseless and Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools.

I fully acknowledge this is kind of a weird way to answer the question. But the fact remains: If we want to build the most powerful mono-color deck in Commander today, we're building in Mono-Red :-)

DatShepTho on GO GO DINOSAUR!

3 months ago

This deck is quite the mix, the cards in here that are good are REALLY GOOD like Sylvan Library, Arid Mesa, True Conviction and Etali, Primal Conqueror  ^Flip

But the cards that aren't are complete rubbish, like Manalith, Mirri's Guile and Gigantosaurus (The green mana pips are hard to get reliably in three color and 10/10 with no evasion is rarely helpful in this deck)

And then there are some cards that are fine, but really don't belong in this deck, like Rancor and Almost Perfect

I would also recommend using tags to separate card functions, like your lands, ramp, dino, damage multipliers, card draw, and removal. This will make it easier to see what your deck is lacking. Use the # character in your card editor to tag cards ("# Ramp" for example)

You only have 30 lands, so I would try to get this to 36/38 rather than more ramp spells. The best budget ones you're missing are Sungrass Prairie, Mossfire Valley, Sunscorched Divide, Clifftop Retreat, Rootbound Crag, Sunpetal Grove, Rockfall Vale, Overgrown Farmland, Fortified Village, Game Trail, Fire-Lit Thicket and Furycalm Snarl. There are plenty more I may have missed too.

I think you should try adding a few ways to accrue card advantage, like Rishkar's Expertise, Season of Gathering, Secret Rendezvous, Inspired Tinkering, and Escape to the Wilds. These will help you find more cards once you're running out.

Majestic Genesis is also a cheeky card you might like...

wrightri on Dream Theater [Intet]

6 months ago

Hey, thanks. Glad you enjoyed my silly pile of cards. There's actually a convoluted combo with Tooth and Nail where you fetch Etali, Primal Conqueror  ^Flip and Bloodwater Entity, have BE put TaN back on top for Etali to flip, then go get Displacer Kitten and either Flaming Tyrannosaurus or Keeper of Secrets to burn the table and maybe keep blinking Etali off your opponents spells. It's not deterministic, but it's a flashy and fun Rube Goldberg machine.

Mortlocke on 100% Dinosaur Tribal [Primer]

7 months ago

Sorry to spam indieinside but I must highly suggest the inclusion of Roaming Throne. It doubles the trigger of your Commander's triggered ability. So if you deal 7 Commander damage you get to look at 7, put those dinos into play and then do it again.

It also doubles all ETB Triggers (For example, Etali, Primal Conqueror  ^Flip) and Enrage triggered abilities as well - as a rule of thumb triggered abilities usually start with "Whenever...".

The icing on the cake is that Roaming Throne is also a Dinosaur, so it keeps to the theme.

AlwaysAblaze on Slapping the face

10 months ago

Etali, Primal Conqueror  ^Flip unfortunately has green color identity, and can't be played in this deck. Other than that, this deck is great!

Mortlocke on Gishath Spared No Expense!!!

1 year ago

I'm not sure what you mean in regards to "I like the flexibility those provide over Worldly Tutor." This is how I envision it's use: Turn: You start by attacking with Gishath targeting an opponent with a weak board state. No blocks declared and combat damage is assigned. Gishath's triggered ability hits the stack, in response you cast Worldly Tutor placing Etali, Primal Conqueror  ^Flip to the top of your library. Worldly Tutor resolves, and Gishath has a guaranteed hit at the start of it's triggered ability resolving. Unfortunately you'd have to telegraph your moves with Sylvan Tutor as it's a Sorcery. You'd just cast it before you go to combat. The flexibility here comes in the fact that you also can just use said spells to help your early game as well getting access to Intrepid Paleontologist or Selvala, Heart of the Wilds. I suggest you revisit Worldly Tutor and Sylvan Tutor - perhaps proxy them in for a game or two and see what happens.