Jurassic Ixalan

Commander / EDH*

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Creature (31)

• 1x Atzocan Seer
• 1x Burning Sun's Avatar
• 1x Cacophodon
• 1x Colossal Dreadmaw
• 1x Forerunner of the Empire
• 1x Frilled Deathspitter
• 1x Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1x Goring Ceratops
• 1x Grazing Whiptail
• 1x Kinjalli's Caller
• 1x Looming Altisaur
• 1x Majestic Heliopterus
• 1x Mina and Denn, Wildborn
• 1x Nissa, Vastwood Seer  ^Flip
• 1x Odric, Lunarch Marshal
• 1x Otepec Huntmaster
• 1x Overgrown Armasaur
• 1x Polyraptor
• 1x Raging Regisaur
• 1x Rampaging Ferocidon
• 1x Relentless Raptor
• 1x Snapping Sailback
• 1x Snubhorn Sentry
• 1x Thrash of Raptors
• 1x Thrashing Brontodon
• 1x Thundering Spineback
• 1x Verdant Sun's Avatar *f-pre*
• 1x Wakening Sun's Avatar
• 1x Whisperer of the Wilds
• 1x Zacama, Primal Calamity
• 1x Zetalpa, Primal Dawn

Land (39)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Blossoming Sands
• 1x Boros Garrison
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 8x Forest
• 1x Grasslands
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Inspiring Vantage
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 4x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Selesnya Sanctuary
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Stirring Wildwood
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Timber Gorge

Instant (7)

• 1x Eerie Interlude
• 1x Heaven / Earth
• 1x Leave / Chance
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Return to Dust
• 1x Summoning Trap
• 1x Swords to Plowshares

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Commune with Dinosaurs
• 1x Explore
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Lay of the Land
• 1x Primal Command
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Savage Stomp
• 1x Thunderherd Migration
• 1x Wrath of God

Artifact (7)

• 1x Explorer's Scope
• 1x Ghirapur Orrery
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Berserkers' Onslaught
• 1x Collective Blessing
• 1x Dictate of Karametra
• 1x Outpost Siege

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Sideboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Pure / Simple

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Tempt with Discovery

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I present to you, a "preconstructed deck" built around Gishath, Sun's Avatar. What do I mean by "preconstructed?" I mean to say that it is 75% of the way towards a finely tuned Gishath deck, and with some of the new dinosaurs from Rivals, and the better ones from Ixalan swapped in for some others it will be really excellent. And throw in some stronger ramp packages and it is going to be a stompy Timmy fun time.

Step 1: Ramping to Gishath. This is where our ramp package comes in, namely Mina and Denn, Wildborn, Ghirapur Orrery and all of the sorceries that allow us to tutor for land.

Step 2: Cast Gishath and trigger him. This makes it so that you will start flipping over cards.

Step 3: Stomp face.

Combat Matters cards: Berserkers' Onslaught, Odric, Lunarch Marshal stand out here, as they make your commander also give everything else vigilance, and if you get a flyer on the board, good luck. This is where you can easily add in Zetalpa, Primal Dawn for the keyword Soup that Odric loves. Collective Blessing both makes the dinos bigger, and harder to kill.

Filter your top deck with Sensei's Divining Top.

Removal: Return to Dust, Swords to Plowshares, Path to Exile, and Savage Stomp, the last for flavor. Zacama, Primal Calamity also adds in some nice enchantment removal, assuming it stays around.

Board Wipes: The usual suspects Wrath of God, Day of Judgement. Heaven / Earth Throws in some needed flexibility, and can easily be added with a Star of Extinction

Have fun casting big dinos. Obvious upgrades are the new Elder dinos from Rivals, Regisaur Alpha and a couple of others.

As is, this deck has faced down extremely well tuned Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Rhys the Redeemed, and Ezuri, Claw of Progress decks, and held its own quite well.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 34 - 0 Rares 26 - 1 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.07
Tokens	Ashaya, the Awoken World, City's Blessing, Copy Clone, Dinosaur 3/3 G w/ Trample, Enchantment Golem 3/3 C, Saproling 1/1 G