Ixalan Park

Commander / EDH Aggro Battlecruiser Dinosaurs Midrange Primer Ramp RGW (Naya) Trample

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Creature (34)

• 1x Ancient Imperiosaur
• 1x Apex Altisaur
• 1x Carnage Tyrant
• 1x Earthshaker Dreadmaw
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Forerunner of the Empire
• 1x Ghalta and Mavren
• 1x Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1x Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
• 1x Goring Ceratops
• 1x Hulking Raptor
• 1x Hunting Velociraptor
• 1x Kinjalli's Caller
• 1x Knight of the Stampede
• 1x Marauding Raptor
• 1x Otepec Huntmaster
• 1x Palani's Hatcher
• 1x Quartzwood Crasher
• 1x Raging Swordtooth
• 1x Rampaging Brontodon
• 1x Rampaging Geoderm
• 1x Rampaging Raptor
• 1x Regal Behemoth
• 1x Regisaur Alpha
• 1x Ripjaw Raptor *f-pre*
• 1x Runic Armasaur
• 1x Seismic Monstrosaur
• 1x Shifting Ceratops
• 1x Sunfrill Imitator
• 1x Trumpeting Carnosaur
• 1x Tyrranax Rex *f-pre*
• 1x Wrathful Raptors
• 1x Zacama, Primal Calamity
• 1x Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Domri, Anarch of Bolas

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Battlefield Forge
• 1x Bonders' Enclave
• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Brushland
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 8x Forest
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Needleverge Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plains
• 1x Rith's Grove
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x War Room
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Artifact (5)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Urza's Incubator

Commander (1)

Instant (10)

• 1x Akroma's Will
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Congregation at Dawn
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Settle the Wreckage
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Poetic Ingenuity
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Unnatural Growth *f-pre*
• 1x Welcome to ...  ^Flip

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Decimate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Savage Order
• 1x Single Combat
• 1x Spoils of Victory
• 1x Winds of Abandon

Battle (1)

• 1x Invasion of Ixalan  ^Flip

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Artifact (6)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Talisman
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Impulse
• 1x Talisman of Unity

Creature (4)

• 1x Kaheera, the Orphanguard
• 1x Roaming Throne
• 1x Xenagos, God of Revels
• 1x Yidaro, Wandering Monster

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Annie Joins Up
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Elemental Bond

Land (3)

• 1x Plateau
• 1x Savannah
• 1x Taiga

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

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"Monster is a relative term. To a canary, a cat is a monster. We're just used to being the cat." - Dr. Henry Wu, Jurassic World

INTRODUCTION

When the spoilers for Ixalan were "released" early, and I saw the dinosaurs, I knew I just had to make a dinosaur deck. I have always been a fanboy of dinosaurs since I was a child. Growing up I actually wanted to be a paleontologist (but I grew out of that and now I am an Armed Messenger for Brinks). As more and more spoilers were released for Ixalan, my inner child just grew out of control. Dinosaurs are a very powerful tribe that are a lot of fun to play.

My only complaint about dinosaurs is that they weren't Jund. Naya colors are good, but I like black with all the tutors, but I can make Naya colors work. A friend of mine is a Naya commander, and he has helped me out greatly in learning the philosophy behind Naya and how {G}{R}{W} works great together.

WHY GISHATH? Show

Do you really have to ask?!? Gishath gives me access to all the colors I need in a dinosaur tribal deck ({R}{G}{W}). She has trample, vigilance, and haste! And her ability to call other dinosaurs from the top of my deck to the battlefield is just too much! Now it was pointed out to me by Mortlocke that the dinosaurs that she summons from the deck can be countered by spells that counter triggered abilities like Disallow, but I feel like that is such a narrow counter spell type, that a lot of players will only run Disallow, but yes, there is that risk. Oh did I forget to say that she is a 7/6 powerhouse! If she is not your commander for your dinosaur army, then please explain to me why she isn't? Is it because of her high CMC? Well you can fix that easily since you have access to green, which is known to ramp hard.

With Rivals of Ixalan out, Zacama, Primal Calamity challenged Gishath as my deck's commander. However, Zacama didn't feel right as a Dinosaur tribal commander, so Gishath managed to keep her spot as top Dino Commander, but Zacama has not been forgotten and is in the 99. Many have questioned me on this, and wanted to clear the air. Zacama is a great Commander! 9/9 for 9 CMC, with Vigilance, trample, and reach. Also two very destructive abilities. Oh, and when he ETBs on cast, all lands become untapped. Very strong, just feels like he's not the lead of Dinosaur tribal. More like a Naya combo or control.

Grimlock, Dinobot Leader   was another option, however, he is a $100 card and would be considered an Un-card. Therefore is not legal in Commander. I also was not a huge fan of giving my board state only a +2/+0 and nothing else. So I wouldn't even put him in the 99.

Atla Palani, Nest Tender was a huge consideration, however, she did not pull out as many dinosaurs as I would have liked. So I opted to keep Gishath who also has sentimental value to me.

Two new challengers have approached; Pantlaza, Sun-Favored and Wayta, Trainer Prodigy! Pantlaza is a good choice as you will almost be guaranteed a spell when a dinosaur enters the battlefield, but it isn't necessarily going to be a dinosaur. I do like Discover, and will make a Pantlaza deck (or just keep the precon intacked) but Gishath is just the better dinosaur commander in my opinion.

Wayta is a great ENRAGE commander, but over the years Ixalan Park has shifted into more of Trampling dinosaurs then Enrage dinosaurs. I might make a Wayta enrage deck, but that is if I get around to it.

WELCOME TO THE PARK Show

DINO

This is a dinosaur tribal deck, so of course my main attraction will be the dinosaurs!

• Quartzwood Crasher: A 6/6 for 5, and when a creature with trample deals damage, the excess damage creates a new dino token trample.
• Carnage Tyrant: Can't be countered or targeted by spells and has trample.
• Goring Ceratops: Has double strike and gives all my dinosaurs double strike.
• Raging Swordtooth: Sets off all my enrage triggers and clears the field of 1/1s.
• Ripjaw Raptor: Lets me draw a card with each enrage trigger.
• Rampaging Raptor: A four drop that has trample and haste, can get bigger, and can damage planeswalkers and battles.
• Etali, Primal Storm: A 6/6 elder dinosaur that when it attacks I get to exile cards off everyone's deck and use those cards as I see fit.
• Ivasion of Ixalan: I don't run this for the battle, but for the Belligerent Regisaur   on the back side.
• Regisaur Alpha: Gives all my dinosaurs haste and creatures a 3/3 token.
• Rampaging Geoderm: A four drop that has trample and haste, and it makes all my dinosaurs get bigger when they attack.
• Tyrranax Rex: Can't be countered, and it has toxic/trample/haste.
• Zetalpa, Primal Dawn: A big dinosaur with a bunch of key words.
• Zacama, Primal Calamity: A dinosaur good enough to challenge Gishath. A 9/9 with three very strong abilities and an enter the battlefield ability that can change the tide of battle.
• Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant: A 12/12 with trample and he brings friends!
• Hunting Velociraptor: Gives my dinosaurs prowl.
• Earthshaker Dreadmaw: Draws cards for each dinosaur I have.
• Hulking Raptor: Gives {G}{G} each turn.
• Palani's Hatcher: Gives haste.
• Regal Behemoth: Brings monarch to the table and if I'm the monarch, my land taps for two.
• Wrathful Raptors: Makes blocking risky.
• Trumpeting Carnosaurs: A big threat that discovers 5 or can be a removal spell in hand.
• Seismic Monstrosaur: Can sac a land to draw a card or can discard to search for a mountain.
• Sunfrill Imitator: What's better than one Gishath? TWO!
• Ghalta and Mavren: A 12/12 for 7 that can create a army of X/X tramping dinosaurs.
• Ghalta, Primal Hunger: A 12/12 Elder Dino that can come down early and without warning.
• Ancient Imperiosaur: I can convoke this ancient dinosaur out, making it bigger. Also has trample.
• Runic Armasaur - A 2/5 for three and it helps me draw.
• Rampaging Brontodon - A nice 7/7 for 7, with trample, but it gets bigger for each land I control when it attacks. So if it's cast, and gets to attack, that's 14/14 or more.
• Apex Altisaur - A 10/10 for 8 CMC that can take out most big threats. Give Apex indestructibility and it is a board wipe on a huge beater.

TRIGGER

These are cards that either trigger Enrage or help support it.

• Forerunner of the Empire: A nice tutor on a stick, and an enrage enabler.

PROTECTION

These are cards that help protect my board state.

• Flawless Maneuver: If Gishath is out, this is a free spell that grants indestructible to all my creatures till the end of turn.
• Domri, Anarch of Bolas: Ramps me one mana, while protecting my creatures from counters. Can have my dinos fight other creatures. He also gives a small +1/+0 bonus.
• Heroic Intervention: Makes my creatures pretty much immortal. Indestructible and hexproof.
• Teferi's Protection: Protects everything for a turn, including me.
• Akroma's Will: This card is great! If Gishath is out, this card can win me the game out of nowhere.
• Rhythm of the Wild: Makes my creatures uncounterable and can grant haste or a +1/+1 counter.

TUTORS

I don't run a lot of tutors, but I do run a few. All of which put a creature on top of my deck so I can cheat them out with Gishath.

• Congregation at Dawn: Get's me three creatures on top of my library.
• Worldly Tutor: Get's one creature on top of my library.
• Savage Order: Lets me pull a big dinosaur out of my deck and to the battlefield.

DRAW

These are the spells that help keep my hand full. I do not rely so much on card advantage as most decks, but it helps to have some.

• Guardian Project: I feel that this card should be a staple in any deck running green and is creature based. Being able to draw when a nontoken enters the field is really good.

REMOVAL

These are my single and mass removal spells. I try to exile targets over just destroying them. This way they cannot come back to haunt me.

• Domri, Anarch of Bolas: Ramps me one mana, while protecting my creatures from counters. Can have my dinos fight other creatures. He also gives a small +1/+0 bonus.
• Single Combat: Removes all but one creature or planeswalker for each player. IF Gishath is on the field, I can easily swarm.
• Path to Exile: Removes a creature, but my opponent gets a land.
• Swords to Plowshares: Removes a creature, but my opponent gains life equal to its power.
• Decimate: I get to destroy an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, AND a land.
• Settle the Wreckage: Remove any threat that might kill me. Gives opponent lands, but exiles all attackers.
• Winds of Abandon: Can exile all my opponents' creatures to end the game. It does come at a high cost of giving everyone a basic land for each creature, but hopefully I can end the game after casting this for it's overload.

TOP_DECK

These are cards that allow me to manipulate the top deck for Gishath to trigger.

• Scroll Rack: This card made me create a whole new category. This allows me to put large dinosaurs on top of my deck when Gishath's effect triggers.
• Congregation at Dawn: At instant speed, I can put three of my best dinosaurs on top of my deck.
• Forerunner of the Empire: Not at instant speed, but lets me put one dinosaur on top of my deck.
• Worldly Tutor: Can find one dinosaur at instant speed and put it on top for Gishath to call upon.

BUFF

This is a category for cards that make my dinosaurs even stronger.

• Unnatural Growth: This is a card I wanted to play around with for a bit. It doubles my creatures' power and toughness EVERY combat.

ACCEL

I normally follow the advice of the Professor and run 8 accel cards. However, with such high costing creatures and being a three color deck, I go a little crazy with accel spells.

• Domri, Anarch of Bolas: Ramps me one mana, while protecting my creatures from counters. Can have my dinos fight other creatures. He also gives a small +1/+0 bonus.
• Welcome to ...  : Gives me {G} for each dinosaur and lets me recast dinosaurs from my graveyard once it flips.
• Poetic Ingenuity: When my dinosaurs attack, I get treasures.
• Smothering Tithe: By far the most powerful ramp spell white has to offer.
• Sol Ring: Because it's Sol Ring! It is a must in any Commander deck.
• Arcane Signet: Because it's Arcane Signet! IT is a must in any Commander deck.
• Spoils of Victory and Farseek: Lets me search for any land so long as it is either a Mountain, Plains, or Forest.
• Urza's Incubator: Makes my dinosaurs {2} less to play, which really helps get them out faster.
• Herald's Horn: Makes my dinosaurs {1} less to play, which helps get them out faster.
• Marauding Raptor: Makes my creatures cheaper.
• Otepec Huntmaster: Reduces dinos by 1 and gives one haste.
• Knight of the Stampede: Reduces dinos by 2.
• Kinjalli's Caller: Reduces dinos by 1.

LANDS

I follow the Professor's advice and run 38 lands. I don't run any lands that enter tapped (and if they do, they have an option of not entering tapped). A lot of the lands will hurt me in the long run, but since I will be giving my dinosaurs lifelink or trying to finish the games quickly, that shouldn't be an issue.

As of late, I have noticed commander decks running less lands, however, I feel this deck needs to stick with the 38.

• Rith's Grove: It's a lair that taps for my colors. It does not come out tapped, and all I have to do is return a land to my hand.
• Wooded Foothills, Windswept Heath, and Arid Mesa: They search for two of my three land types.
• The MCF Lands: I run all three flip lands. They don't enter tapped which is great and give me two of my three lands.
• Stomping Ground, Sacred Foundry, and Temple Garden: They count as two of my three land types. They enter tapped, but I can pay 2 life to have them come in untapped.
• Sunpetal Grove, Clifftop Retreat, and Rootbound Crag: They count as two of my three colors, and will almost never enter tapped.
• Karplusan Forest, Battlefield Forge, and Brushland: Painlands that tap for two of my three colors. They don't enter tapped and only ping me for 1 life.
• Cavern of Souls: Taps for any color, and it makes the creature unable to be countered.
• Command Tower: Taps for my commander's identity.
• City of Brass: Taps for any color, and pings me for 1 life.
• Forbidden Orchard: Taps for any color, and gives someone a 1/1 spirit. Good political chip.
• Bonders' Enclave: Lets me draw cards.
• Rogue's Passage: Helps push damage by making a creature unblockable.
• Unclaimed Territory: Taps for {C} or for any color for my dinosaurs.
• Path of Ancestry: Taps for my colors, and if the creature I play shares a type with my commander, I get to scry 1. Yes it enters tapped, but it lets me scry when I cast a dinosaur.
• Ancient Tomb: Taps for {C}{C} for two life. Great ramp, and after pulling it from Ultimate Masters and talking to Jolt, I knew I needed to put it in my deck.

NOTABLE EXCLUSIONS Show

• The Signets: I don't like filter cards, notice I didn't add filter lands to the deck either. I just don't know why, but I really don't like them. Paying mana for more mana is something I just never enjoyed doing. I know that sounds stupid, and it is. Having to tap two things just to get the same return just doesn't feel rewarding enough.

• Cultivate, Kodama's Reach, and Explosive Vegetation: I don't run a lot of basic lands, so I run ramp spells that can fetch non-basic lands AND basic lands. It really helps when I need my Rouge's Passage or a dual land.

• Filter Lands: Much like the Signets, I don't run filter lands. It's not even the price tag on them, but the fact that I don't like sinking mana to make more mana. I don't mind paying on time to get something like Sol Ring but to have to pay every time to get more mana just doesn't appeal to me.

• Tap Lands: Any land (except for shock and check lands) that enter tap you will never see in any of my deck willingly.

PROS VS. CONS Show

PRO

• Great for the Timmys out there
• Has great dinosaur value
• Gets big dinosaurs out fast
• Dinosaurs?

CON

• Not so fun for the Johnnys
• Is not that competitive
• Mana base is EXPENSIVE!
• Deck strategy is Pidgeon holed as it relies heavily on attacking with Gishath or getting dinosaurs out and attacking with them. If there is a bigger cat out there and we turn into the canary, we are in trouble.

SPECIAL THANKS Show

I want to thank everyone on PucaTrade who has helped me get this deck built. Some of the cards listed below might have been taken out or swapped out for different art.

dkings967

• Ashnod's Altar

GoVeganPlease

• Apex Altisaur

Chris Powell

• Thrash of Raptors
• Sun-Crowned Hunters
• Snapping Sailback
• Shining Aerosaur
• Ravenous Daggertooth
• Raptor Hatchling
• Otepec Huntmaster
• Kinjalli's Caller
• Colossal Dreadmaw

Ryudjinni

• Carnage Tyrant

RustBeltGames

• Thundering Spineback
• Sky Terror
• Imperial Aerosaur
• Charging Monstrosaur
• Bellowing Aegisaur

Jason Nakakuni

• Titanic Ultimatum (First Trade)
• Kinjalli's Sunwing (Second Trade)

FROGCHICKY

• Deathgorge Scavenger

Eric MtG

• Unclaimed Territory

Jhasty

• Congregation at Dawn
• Genesis Wave

MYSTICALBRENT

• Pyrohemia

King Authur

• Polyraptor
• Trapjaw Tyrant
• Wayward Swordtooth

Sorin Claus

• Siegehorn Ceratops

TrinketMage

• Etali, Primal Storm

Trevathecleva

• Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Hebert Harttie

• Raging Regisaur
• Silverclad Ferocidons

AlwaysFireABT

• Forerunner of the Empire
• Frilled Deathspitter
• Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• Knight of the Stampede

Ori

• Chromatic Lantern
• Samut, the Tested

Top Ranked	Achieved #3 position overall 7 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Battlecruiser 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Combo 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Dinosaurs 5 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 months
Exclude colors	UB
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 62 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 4 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.28
Tokens	Dinosaur 3/1 R, Dinosaur 3/3 G, Dinosaur 3/3 G, Dinosaur Beast */* G, Dinosaur Egg 0/1 G, Dinosaur X/X G, Egg 0/1 G, Spirit 1/1 C, The Monarch, Treasure, Vampire 1/1 W
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