Big Stompy Dinosaurs

Commander / EDH* Casual Ramp RGW (Naya) Tribal

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Dinosaur (28)

• 1x Apex Altisaur
• 1x Bellowing Aegisaur
• 1x Deathgorge Scavenger
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1x Goring Ceratops
• 1x Kinjalli's Sunwing
• 1x Marauding Raptor
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Needletooth Raptor
• 1x Polyraptor
• 1x Raging Swordtooth
• 1x Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1x Ranging Raptors
• 1x Raptor Hatchling
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Regisaur Alpha
• 1x Ripjaw Raptor
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Silverclad Ferocidons
• 1x Temple Altisaur
• 1x Thrashing Brontodon
• 1x Thundering Spineback
• 1x Trapjaw Tyrant
• 1x Verdant Sun's Avatar
• 1x Wakening Sun's Avatar
• 1x Zacama, Primal Calamity
• 1x Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Enrage (8)

• 1x Apex Altisaur
• 1x Bellowing Aegisaur
• 1x Polyraptor
• 1x Ranging Raptors
• 1x Raptor Hatchling
• 1x Ripjaw Raptor
• 1x Silverclad Ferocidons
• 1x Trapjaw Tyrant

EnableEnrage (4)

• 1x Forerunner of the Empire
• 1x Marauding Raptor
• 1x Pyrohemia
• 1x Samut, the Tested

Anthem (2)

• 1x Bellowing Aegisaur
• 1x Thundering Spineback

Tutor (1)

• 1x Forerunner of the Empire

Land (35)

• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 8x Forest
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 4x Plains
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Spinerock Knoll
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Windbrisk Heights

Protection (9)

• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Iroas, God of Victory
• 1x Kinjalli's Sunwing
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Temple Altisaur

Draw (7)

• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Hunter's Prowess
• 1x Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1x Ripjaw Raptor
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

DoubleStrike (3)

• 1x Berserkers' Onslaught
• 1x Goring Ceratops
• 1x Samut, the Tested

Commander (1)

Ramp (16)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Gruul Signet
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mirari's Wake
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Ranging Raptors
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Selesnya Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Traverse the Outlands
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Removal (9)

• 1x Apex Altisaur
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Needletooth Raptor
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Silverclad Ferocidons
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Thrashing Brontodon
• 1x Trapjaw Tyrant
• 1x Zacama, Primal Calamity

BoardWipe (4)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Wakening Sun's Avatar

Other (1)

• 1x Huatli, Warrior Poet

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Other (2)

• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner

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As soon as I saw Gishath, Sun's Avatar being spoiled I knew I had to make a deck around him (or her). Then at the prerelease I opened him in my sealed pool, and realized that it was impossible not to build this deck.

It's a dionosaur tribal ramp deck featuring all the biggest stompiest dinosaurs: Zetalpa, Primal Dawn, Zacama, Primal Calamity, and of course the biggest of them all: Ghalta, Primal Hunger.

Most of the best dinosaurs have a CMC of 6+, Gishath himself is an 8-drop, so ramp is a very important part of this deck. I'm running most cards from the basic green ramp package and a couple artifacts. With all this ramp there is a way to get Gishath out turn 3, it's not very likly, but it could happen. It goes like this: Turn 1: Play any untapped Land to play Sol Ring to play any of the three signets or Fellwar Stone. Turn 2: PLay another untapped land to have access to five mana, which you use to play Gilded Lotus or Mirari's Wake. Turn 3: If you played the Gilded Lotus, you now have eight mana and can play gishath, if instead you played a Mirari's Wake you have to play a third untapped land to have enough mana to cast Gishath, Sun's Avatar.

Another important part of this deck is the protection, this is a broad category including protection from single-target removal: Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots, Protection from attacks in card:Mirri, Weatherlight Dualist and Boardwipe protection in for example: Teferi's Protection and Avacyn, Angel of Hope.

With the release of M19 we got two new dinosaurs in Gigantosaurus and Runic Armasaur. Gigantosaurus is just to big not to include. Runic Armasaur is incidental card draw on a pretty nice body, a 2/5 isn't crazy, but it blocks a lot of stuff in the early game.

Please give me any advice you have for this deck.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.52
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dinosaur 3/3 G w/ Trample, The Monarch
Folders	Commander, 1