Form of the Dinosaur

Enchantment

When Form of the Dinosaur enters the battlefield, your life total becomes 15.

At the beginning of your upkeep, Form of the Dinosaur deals 15 damage to target creature an opponent controls and that creature deals damage equal to its power to you.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	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
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (16)

legendofa on Card creation challenge

2 years ago

Lynaedros, God of Defeat

Legendary Enchantment Creature - Demon God

Indestructible

As long as your devotion to blue, black, and red is less than seven, Lynaedros is not a creature.

Creatures you don't control get -2/-1 and attack each turn if able.

At the beginning of each opponent's end phase, that player discards a card.

5/3

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Create a "Form of the" card. Form of the Dragon, Form of the Dinosaur, Form of the Squirrel

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge

2 years ago

Locus of Existence

Enchantment

Hexproof, Indestructible

~ can't be sacrificed.

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player gains control of ~.

At the beginning of your pre-combat main phase, each opponent adds . When any of that mana empties from a mana pool, you draw a card and gain 1 life.

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This seems insanely complicated, but could lead to incredible games.

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Make a white "form" card like Lich's Mastery , Dragon Form or Form of the Dinosaur .

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Card creation challenge

4 years ago

Form of the Firemane 2WWRR

Legendary Enchantment

Hexproof

Creatures without flying or Reach can't attack you.

Whenever you cast an instant, sorcery or enchantment spell, ~ deals 3 damage to any target and you gain 3 life.

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I love these cards like Form of the Dinosaur or Dragon Form. This here basically turns the player into a Boros Angel that blasts Lightning Helix left and right, while also being a pillow fort card. The special tweak is that it gives opposing creatures with reach some added versatility. This might actually be too powerful. But I really like the flavour.

Elmoisamac on Jurassic Park

4 years ago

This is a good start! Here are a few suggestions.

1. Make sure you run 38 lands. You mana curve is pretty high and your commander is expensive so you want to be playing lands every turn.

2. Cards to remove: Altar of Dementia , Arcum's Astrolabe , Prying Blade , Ephemerate , Huatli's Spurring , Shake the Foundations , Fight with Fire , Strength of the Pack , Form of the Dinosaur , any of the weaker dinosaurs or non-dinosaur creatures.

3. Consider adding removal/boardwipes like Fumigate , Swords to Plowshares , Oblivion Ring .

4. More card draw Shamanic Revelation , Guardian Project are a couple off the top of my head.

Madcookie on Infinite Life via Pain's Reward? …

5 years ago

I couldn't help myself but look for a few cards that would make this million life dream to come true but sadly the only thing I managed to find was adding a forth piece to the combo with the lowest CMC being Oketra's Last Mercy at 3CMC, but that one comes at a cost. Next one start at 6-7CMC like activating Angel of Grace from the graveyard, Providence , Resolute Archangel and Form of the Dinosaur , but at that point I'd just use Repay in Kind to just win(that would require replacing Angel's Grace with Phyrexian Unlife tho), but that would make the combo very different from what was originally intended :/.

Hope this helps you mate, cheers!

stensiagamekeeper on Ideas for a 'The Wanderer' …

5 years ago

You guys aren't thinking big enough. Form of the Dinosaur CONTROL BABY!!!!!!

Alternatively there's Midnight Reaper , damage based board wipe or random fight spells (note all these are technically non-combat damage).

Then of course there's Demonlord Belzenlok . If your entire deck is 4 or more cmc DB's etb with The Wanderer out draws your entire deck. Cards like Bedeck / Bedazzle , Response / Resurgence just have to get you to the later turns. For wincon you could just run a single nexus that you discard to handsize so as not to mill out and keep casting it swinging with your 6/6 flier backed up with a deck's worth of removal.

Finally there's proliferate shenanigans. The Wanderer has no +1 so cards like Karn's Bastion or Grateful Apparition mean recurring removal. Otherwise she's just 2 Reprisal s against non-red decks most of the time.

seshiro_of_the_orochi on Imagine a King Who Fights His Own Battles

5 years ago

I love these one-man-army style decks. There are way too few of them. This is a pretty cool approach to it, I really like the combo with Repercussion.

You might consider adding some more lifegain though, as Form of the Dinosaur doesn't heal you at any given time. Lifegain doesn't really exist in mono red, so adding a little white might be fitting. Renewed Faith and Sanguine Sacrament are powerful. And then, the is Beacon of Immortality, which seems to be the best option. Adding white also gives you access to Lightning Helix. If you want to stay mono-red, Aetherflux Reservoir might be another great card that also benefits from your big amount of cheap spells.

-Arcanity- on form of the dinosaur

5 years ago

chuckaw1977 with the way Form of the Dinosaur is worded, the damage to the opposing creature is dealt at the same time it deals damage to you, thus Soul-Scar Mage's ability will not reduce the damage you take.