Gishath, Sun's Avatar (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Dinosaur Tribal. This deck is in constant flux. It requires a lot of mana and is extremely vulnerable to board wipes and counter spells. The goal of the deck is attack with large dinosaurs.

Strategy

This deck is pretty straight forward, play dinosaurs and attack. You will generally have the largest creatures on the board and if you get a decent board state, board wipes will be coming form opponents. If you can get Gishath to hit, you can leap ahead in board state. This decks plays multiple cards to help Gishath get in and do more damage.

Opening Hand

This deck requires a lot of mana to get going. A good opening hand should have at least 2 lands and ramp or mana reduction. Ideally, 3 lands and ramp would be best. Look for Drover of the Mighty, Otepec Huntmaster, Atzocan Seer, Knight of the Stampede and mana rocks.

Don't worry too much about having dino's in the opening hand as there are plenty in the deck to draw into plus getting Gishath on the board will find you some.

Combos

Many of the combos in this deck revolve around the Enrage mechanic. Doing damage to your own dinosaurs will help you find land, get token copies of dinos, do damage, exile your opponents creatures and draw cards.

Enrage enablers in this deck include:
AEther Flash
Forerunner of the Empire
Pyrohemia
Rampaging Ferocidon
> Rile - Notably not a great card for Commander but it was on theme so I put it in there.

Some combos using enrage include:

Polyraptor + Pyrohemia - Lots of tokens!
Ripjaw Raptor + Pyrohemia - great card draw

Look out for the combo of AEther Flash + Polyraptor as this will cause an infinite loop that you can't stop without some sort of removal.

Winning

Winning with Gishath is fairly straight forward. Put a lot of big creatures on the board and attack. There are some pieces to the deck to help with that.

This deck really wants Gishath to connect and for as much damage as possible. To do so, this deck plays:
True Conviction - Doublestrike really helps with Gishath's trample and will hopefully find more dinosaurs on his trigger
Whispersilk Cloak and Rogue's Passage make Gishath or another large dinosaur unblockable.

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Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 1 Mythic Rares 45 - 1 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.02
Tokens	City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Dinosaur 3/3 G w/ Trample, Egg 0/1 G, Elephant 3/3 G, Treasure
Folders	Commander Decks
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