SirRocketsauce - Thanks for the upvote!

RebelGenius - Thanks for the upvote!

Hi lhetrick13 Nice deck :) and may life find its way... Considering the struggle with Propaganda maybe you can think of Atzocan Seer or Drover of the Mighty instead of Kinjalli's Caller, they have a dinosaur theme, survive enrage trigger and have the same effect as the caller if you cast 1 big boy per round, but they can pay other costs as well as they provide mana. As you are using WG and cast creatures regularly Aura Shards may be worth a look. Happy stomping!

Xtough - Thanks for the compliment and upvote. Always nice to have some feedback!

You are not wrong about the deck struggling when the opponents sets up Ghostly Prison or even worse, multiple of those kind of cards as the deck does struggle against heavy artifact/enchantment decks. Dinos just do not have the best removal for those which is sad.

The thing I love about Kinjalli's Caller is how it speeds up the deck. Dropping it on turn 1 allows me to cast 3 CMC dinos on turn 2 and speed is something dinosaurs need as they usually are pretty expensive. Dropping Kinjalli's Caller for either of those two would essentially push me back one or two turns as Atzocan Seer and Drover of the Mighty would fill...similar rolls but are just more expensive.

Atzocan Seer has a little more upside with the graveyard yank but at 3 CMC, it is a high price to pay for what you get. I talked with Radiant_Draconis who runs a similar themed deck (Prehistoric Rumble!) about Atzocan Seer as he used to be in that deck and that helped me rule him out.

Is Aura Shards legal in modern? According to cardhoarder and cardkingdom it is not; otherwise, I would be running maybe 1-2 copies in the deck and adding the rest of the full playset to the SB.

Thanks again for the feedback!

DreadKhan - Thanks for the upvote! If you have any suggestions or thoughts either positive or negative I would love to hear them.

I feel like you could use more ramp, you could use enchantment ramp like Utopia Sprawl or even Trace of Abundance incase you're worried about your beefy land being targeted somehow. I also wonder if Pyrohemia is worth a look, this would 'solve' annoying decks with x/1 (and x/2, even x/3 probably is safe for most of your dinosaurs) creatures like Elves and Faeries, and it can Enrage your dinosaurs for you for only R, which seems like a lot of value.

Metallic Mimic might be a low mana 'dinosaur' that can help, Realmwalker is another that might help, it's a tiny advantage acutely, but having access to one more card at all times is pretty good. Masked Vandal might be worth a look if you think you can get creatures into your own graveyard to power it, exiling stuff is pretty strong.

Not sure if you ever get 'outmuscled', but Blasphemous Act does offer you a wipe that can trigger your Enrage abilities on the way out, which can be a nice perk that offsets the annoyance of wiping your own board.

DreadKhan - Utopia Sprawl has been on my wish list for a while but I feel like you are right this may be a good fit for it considering the abundance of high CMC dinos in the deck. If i can procure some in the new future I will need to test that out. Any thoughts on what you would cut to make room for 3-4? My first thought was 1xForerunner of the Empire and 1xTrapjaw Tyrant but after that things start getting tight!

I looked at Pyrohemia but Forerunner of the Empire provides a very similar mass enrage trigger ability when creatures enter the field so I decided to go that route.

Metallic Mimic and some of the other shapeshifters you mentioned have some merit...The +1/+1 counter ability is not exactly needed with how big most dinos are for their cost but it would give a cheaper option. Realmwalker wmight be a good addition to give me a "larger hand" as you mentioned and Masked Vandal would give me a decent artifact/enchantment removal option seeing how that is something dinos struggle with.

Good stuff and some ideas to try out! Thanks for your thoughts!

I would figure the deck would run smoother if you switched out the 2 you mentioned, as well as 1 each of Regisaur and Silverclad, both are good cards but will clog your hand turn 1 when you'd very much like to see a Utopia Sprawl. You also might try x2 rather than x4, and switch between which cards you pull to see if you really 'notice' any of them being reduced?

My other consideration is whether or not you have enough Forests, but it doesn't have to be a Basic Forest, it can be any Forest, so you have quite a few effectively. What I figure is that you are probably mana screwed if you don't draw any Forests in your opener, so I feel like most hands where you'd be 'stuck' with a Sprawl you'd have used a mulligan for not having a Forest (and having a 4-7 drop creature wouldn't have changed that either), so I suspect the 'risk' of using Sprawl is actually lower than I'd have expected.

DreadKhan - Ya, both of those two can be knockout punches with the right support around them but running 3xTrapjaw Tyrant feels excessive at times and same with 4xForerunner of the Empire. I will need to play around with that and see if I like Utopia Sprawl and if so, how many copies I feel like the deck needs...I am imagining like a turn 1 Utopia Sprawl, turn 2 Kinjalli's Caller and Marauding Raptor, followed by a Turn 3 enraged dino that has up to a CMC of 5...that is not shabby...

I have done alot of swapping things around over the last couple weeks for testing and you are right, I likely need to balance my lands again based on the cards I currently have or will add to it. With the shock, filter, fetch lands as well as Ranging Raptors I usually do not have issues getting the mana I need to cast what ever but there are times where I have a killer opening hand but I have the wrong color mana to cast everything within the first 3 turns :(

DreadKhan - Your advice did not fall on deaf ears my friend! I finally procured 4xUtopia Sprawl. I had been wanting a playset of that card for a while now but just never had a deck where I felt it was needed or suggested. Can not say I will get to playtesting out your suggestion right away but I do have the option to do so now. Thanks for your suggestions!

I hope you're very happy with your Utopia Sprawls, I bought one myself recently, but it's not arrived yet. Even if it doesn't necessarily work in this deck, there are a lot of things that benefit from having lands that tap for more than 1 mana, and as a ramp source it's one of the best ever printed.