[Primer] The Land Before Time: Izzet Dino Tribal
Commander / EDH Casual Clone Dinosaurs Primer Suspend Theme/Gimmick UR (Izzet)
Land (35)
- 1x Ancient Tomb
- 1x Archaeological Dig
- 1x Arid Mesa
- 1x Bloodstained Mire
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1x
Cascade Bluffs
- 1x Command Tower
- 1x Crystal Vein
- 1x Ferrous Lake
- 1x Flooded Strand
- 1x Gemstone Caverns
- 6x Island
- 1x Misty Rainforest
- 7x Mountain
- 1x Mystic Sanctuary
- 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- 1x Otawara, Soaring City
- 1x Polluted Delta
- 1x Prismatic Vista
- 1x Reliquary Tower
- 1x Scalding Tarn
- 1x Steam Vents
- 1x Sulfur Falls
- 1x Volcanic Island
- 1x Wooded Foothills
Artifact (13)
Creature (23)
- 1x Bonehoard Dracosaur
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1x
Burning Sun's Avatar
- 1x Charging Monstrosaur
- 1x Cloudpiercer
- 1x Cresting Mosasaurus
- 1x Dockside Extortionist
- 1x Etali, Primal Storm
- 1x Flaming Tyrannosaurus
- 1x Frenetic Raptor
- 1x Hunting Velociraptor
- 1x Marauding Brinefang
- 1x Nezahal, Primal Tide
- 1x Rampaging Ceratops
- 1x Ripscale Predator
- 1x Roaming Throne
- 1x Seismic Monstrosaur
- 1x Silverclad Ferocidons
- 1x Sun-Crowned Hunters
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1x
The Tenth Doctor
- 1x Titan of Littjara
- 1x Trumpeting Carnosaur
- 1x Wrathful Raptors
- 1x Yidaro, Wandering Monster
Sorcery (9)
Commander (1)
Instant (13)
- 1x Chaos Warp
- 1x Clockspinning
- 1x Cyclonic Rift
- 1x Deflecting Swat
- 1x Fierce Guardianship
- 1x Fury Charm
- 1x Guff Rewrites History
- 1x Long-Term Plans
- 1x Mana Drain
- 1x Mystical Tutor
- 1x Telling Time
- 1x Three Steps Ahead
- 1x Timecrafting
Enchantment (6)
Maybeboard
Creature (5)
Life finds a way.
Remember. Return. Relive.
I've always wanted a Dinosaur themed deck that was different from the Naya Dino decks you always see. With The Doctor Who and The Lost Caverns of Ixalan sets came the possibility to create this deck.
The overall theme is "time travel Dino's" with Suspend and "Jurassic Park clone" theme using Blue's access to great cloning cards. The cards and cards art all fit the theme and "time"/"history" themes as much as possible. Which means that some cards are "sub-optimal" on-theme, but good enough to be used (Archaeological Dig). And doesn't include other wise good cards due to either not being on-theme or no on-theme-art (The One Ring: Awesome card draw, but doesn't fit the theme). The only exception to this self-enforced rule is the mana base as we want to get Jhoira out asap. If we don't include fast mana we'd be having Dino's on the field by turn 15 instead of turn 7-8 (on average). This is further strengthened by not including any extra-turn spells (which do speed you up, but are obnoxious to play against).
Jhoira is the ideal Commander for a deck like this. Early game is to get Jhoira out as fast as possible so we can start Suspending our Dino's.
Late game we have The Tenth Doctor
and All of History, All at Once to speed up the Suspend, Hunting Velociraptor to cheap cast Dino's with Prowl or hard cast the Dino's as a last resort.
This deck notably doesn't include any Extra Turn cards. While they are on theme, it's obnoxious to play against someone who's basically playing Solitaire.
The main goal of the deck is to win by swinging with big Dino's, but thanks to Red's smash face effects we have some burn alt win cons like Flaming Tyrannosaurus.
The best available Dino's are pulled from history and we use several great ways to create (in)genetic clones.
We just need more teeth Show
Dino DNA Show
Cloudpiercer tech:
Can mutate over (support) creatures to make them stronger and dinosaur type (which subsequently leads to type benefits; mutate over Dockside, get a copy trigger of Reflections and get new etb treasures / Mutate over legendary dino, get multiple non-legendary legendary dino).
Here we are ripping time and space apart and manipulating time itself. Which is a good idea since we know what we're doing. Time travel shenanigans amount is based on the the 8x8 theory. As we don't want too many "dead" cards late game and the right amount early/mid game.
Time-travelling academics Show
Timey-wimey Show
Paradox Haze is not included because: - It costs the same CMC as Jhoira early game. And you should always cast Jhoira. - Early turns you need to suspend stuff. This cards delays things further (specially since we don't run extra turn cards) - Duplicates any negative effects that happen during your upkeep (Mana Crypt, etc)
Some all around goodstuff cards that engineer value.
- Mystic Sanctuary: Instant & Sorcery recursion
- Reliquary Tower
- Passionate Archaeologist: Feel that passion burning
- Where Ancients Tread: You can tell by the ripples in the water
- Chimil, the Inner Sun: Un-counterable spells, seeing ppl see our Suspend stuff & bonus "Discover 5" value
- Dino DNA: More Dino's tokens and light Gy hate
- Sensei's Divining Top: Divining the future
- Etali, Primal Storm
- Roaming Throne: Alternate timeline Dino that copies other Dino's triggered abilities
- Deflecting Swat: Dino protection
- Fierce Guardianship: Gavi Nest warden says nope
- Long-Term Plans: Best "search-anything" on theme tutor
- Mana Drain: Primordial Sea creatures say nope
- Mystical Tutor: The cloning-concoction-art tutor
- Three Steps Ahead: Future vision value
I'm open to suggestions and ideas to improve the deck. Given that they fit the theme (see "Welcome to The Land Before Time" topic above).
There should be no infinite combo's in the deck. It takes the strategy element out of the game and any nitwit can win with a 2 card combo.
Be sure to check out my other decks for even more funzies:
- [Primer] Mogis' Slaughter House: Murder Made Tasty
- [Primer] EDH's Wacky Races
- [Primer] Fight at the Breastriary in Nippopolis!
- [Primer] Rainforest Shmainforest: Not For Hippies!
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| Legality | This deck is Commander / EDH legal. |
| Rarity (main - side) | 12 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons |
| Cards | 100 |
| Avg. CMC | 3.80 |
| Tokens | Copy Clone, Dinosaur 3/1 R, Treasure |
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