commander-naya-dinosaurs

Commander / EDH RGW (Naya)

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Land (38)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 6x Forest
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 3x Plains
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Sanctum of Eternity
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Plenty
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Triggering Enrage (4)

• 1x Forerunner of the Empire
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Raging Swordtooth
• 1x Volcanic Spray

Boardwipes (3)

• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Starstorm
• 1x Wakening Sun's Avatar

Dinosaurs (19)

• 1x Apex Altisaur
• 1x Carnage Tyrant
• 1x Charging Monstrosaur
• 1x Charging Tuskodon
• 1x Colossal Dreadmaw
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1x Goring Ceratops
• 1x Kinjalli's Sunwing
• 1x Polyraptor
• 1x Quartzwood Crasher
• 1x Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1x Regisaur Alpha
• 1x Shifting Ceratops
• 1x Silverclad Ferocidons
• 1x Temple Altisaur
• 1x Verdant Sun's Avatar
• 1x Yidaro, Wandering Monster
• 1x Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Card Draw (7)

• 1x Elemental Bond
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Ripjaw Raptor
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Runic Armasaur

Protection (4)

• 1x Not of this World
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Tibalt's Trickery
• 1x Unbreakable Formation

Tricks (3)

• 1x Basilisk Collar
• 1x Fires of Yavimaya
• 1x Jaya's Immolating Inferno

Commander (1)

Ramp (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Marauding Raptor
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Ranging Raptors
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Traverse the Outlands
• 1x Urza's Incubator

Single-target Removal (6)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Needletooth Raptor
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Thrashing Brontodon
• 1x Trapjaw Tyrant
• 1x Warstorm Surge

Ramp + Card Draw (2)

• 1x Gishath, Sun's Avatar
• 1x Herald's Horn

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Key ideas:

• Tagline: Dinosaurs (enrage, aggro)
• Ramp up and smash face with big dinosaurs! 27 dinosaurs in the 99! Give 'em haste and swing in!
• With Zacama, Primal Calamity as the commander, this is more of a slow-burn combo deck. Dinosaurs can come out and block while you ramp towards the infinite combo with Zacama.
• With Gishath, Sun's Avatar as the commander, this is a very aggressive aggro deck. Attack with Gishath and put a lot of dinosaur power on the board.
• Several of techniques to do damage to our own dinosaurs, some quite repeatable. Some are one-time direct damage we'd rather not use like that, but in a pinch it can work: Marauding Raptor, Chandra's Ignition, Starstorm, Jaya's Immolating Inferno, Volcanic Spray, Forerunner of the Empire, Pyrohemia, Raging Swordtooth
• A interesting set of enrage triggers: Ranging Raptors (ramps with a basic land), Ripjaw Raptor (draws a card), Needletooth Raptor (does five damage to opponents' creature), Trapjaw Tyrant (exiles a creature until it leaves the battlefield), Silverclad Ferocidons (make each opponent sacrifice a permanent), Polyraptor (create a copy of itself), Apex Altisaur (you can have it fight a creature).
• Basilisk Collar makes our tramplers very dangerous - you only need to assign lethal to each blocker, AKA 1 damage. With this, it's highly likely that Gishath will hit and get its trigger to put dinosaurs on the battlefield.
• Not of This World is sweet tech to protect our expensive commander or our other very powerful dinosaurs!
• Sub-theme around creature power: Traverse the Outlands, Garruk's Uprising, Greater Good, Return of the Wildspeaker, Rishkar's Expertise, Warstorm Surge
• Infinite combo: Enough lands, Zacama, Primal Calamity and Temur Sabertooth/Sanctum of Eternity. Note: This combo works with Sabertooth even if Zacama isn't your chosen commander, but Sanctum only works on a commander.
• Infinite combo: Marauding Raptor and Polyraptor. Note: we can't play this unless we have an instant-speed way to get rid of Marauding Raptor; it will go generate Polyraptor copies forever, stalling the game out.
• Mini-combo: Polyraptor and Forerunner of the Empire/Pyrohemia: make a lot of Polyraptor copies. Forerunner will die, but you'll get eight Polyraptor 5/5 creatures on your battlefield, 40 power. With Pyrohemia you can double your Polyraptor collection for {R}

Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.44
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dinosaur 3/3 G, Dinosaur Beast */* G