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Dino Study
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Est deck cost: $339.50
Salt sum: 33.2
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Commander

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Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Whenever Pantlaza or another Dinosaur you control enters, you may discover X, where X is that creature's toughness. Do this only once each turn. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Creature
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored (lcc) 20

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Draw

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Curator of Sun's Creation

Whenever you discover, discover again for the same value. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Curator of Sun's Creation (lci) 141
Curious Altisaur

Vigilance, reach Whenever a Dinosaur you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Curious Altisaur (lcc) 58
Dinosaur Egg

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) When this creature dies, you may discover X, where X is its toughness.

Creature
Dinosaur Egg (lcc) 92
Earthshaker Dreadmaw

Trample When this creature enters, draw a card for each other Dinosaur you control.

Creature
Earthshaker Dreadmaw (lci) 325
Elemental Bond

Whenever a creature you control with power 3 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Elemental Bond (scd) 180
Etali, Primal Storm

Whenever Etali attacks, exile the top card of each player's library, then you may cast any number of spells from among those cards without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Etali, Primal Storm (fdn) 329
Garruk's Uprising

When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (wot) 53
Regal Behemoth

Trample When this creature enters, you become the monarch. Whenever you tap a land for mana while you're the monarch, add an additional one mana of any color.

Creature
Regal Behemoth (cmm) 651
Rishkar's Expertise

Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. You may cast a spell with mana value 5 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Sorcery
Rishkar's Expertise (woc) 130
Toski, Bearer of Secrets

This spell can't be countered. Indestructible Toski attacks each combat if able. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Toski, Bearer of Secrets (blc) 244

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Overrun

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Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn. • Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Instant
Akroma's Will (cmr) 615
Rhythm of the Wild

Creature spells you control can't be countered. Nontoken creatures you control have riot. (They enter with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)

Enchantment
Rhythm of the Wild (nec) 142
Xenagos, God of Revels

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red and green is less than seven, Xenagos isn't a creature. At the beginning of combat on your turn, another target creature you control gains haste and gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is that creature's power.

Creature Enchantment
Xenagos, God of Revels (bng) 156

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Stax

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Possibility Storm

Whenever a player casts a spell from their hand, that player exiles it, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a card that shares a card type with it. That player may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put all cards exiled with this enchantment on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Enchantment
Possibility Storm (dgm) 34

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Add

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Eldritch Evolution

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a creature card with mana value X or less, where X is 2 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Exile Eldritch Evolution.

Sorcery
Eldritch Evolution (inr) 195
Etali, Primal Conqueror

Creature
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness (mom) 298Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness (mom) 298

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Free Dinos

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Cryptic Gateway

Tap two untapped creatures you control: You may put a creature card from your hand that shares a creature type with each creature tapped this way onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Cryptic Gateway (dmr) 218
Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Vigilance, trample, haste Whenever Gishath deals combat damage to a player, reveal that many cards from the top of your library. Put any number of Dinosaur creature cards from among them onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Gishath, Sun's Avatar (lci) 330
Monster Manual

Artifact
Monster Manual // Zoological Study (sld) 1782
Trumpeting Carnosaur

Trample When this creature enters, discover 5. {2}{R}, Discard this card: It deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Creature
Trumpeting Carnosaur (lci) 324

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Protection

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Agonasaur Rex

Trample Cycling {2}{G} ({2}{G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature or Vehicle. It gains trample and indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Agonasaur Rex (dft) 151
Ephemerate

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Instant
Ephemerate (plst) MH1-7
Heroic Intervention

Permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant
Heroic Intervention (m21) 375
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (lcc) 114
Temple Altisaur

If a source would deal damage to another Dinosaur you control, prevent all but 1 of that damage.

Creature
Temple Altisaur (rix) 28

Protection

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Anthem

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Regal Imperiosaur

Other Dinosaurs you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Regal Imperiosaur (dft) 177

Anthem

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Land

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Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}. Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land
Ash Barrens (mkc) 248
Cabaretti Courtyard

When this land enters, sacrifice it. When you do, search your library for a basic Mountain, Forest, or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle and you gain 1 life.

Land
Cabaretti Courtyard (snc) 249
Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Canopy Vista (woc) 153
Cinder Glade

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Cinder Glade (cmm) 991
Clifftop Retreat

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Clifftop Retreat (dmr) 241
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (otc) 279
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (woc) 156
Escape Tunnel

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target creature with power 2 or less can't be blocked this turn.

Land
Escape Tunnel (mkm) 261
Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Evolving Wilds (woe) 256
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (woc) 159
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (lci) 402
Fortified Village

As this land enters, you may reveal a Forest or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Fortified Village (woc) 161
Hushwood Verge

{T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control a Forest or a Plains.

Land
Hushwood Verge (dsk) 332
Jungle Shrine

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.

Land
Jungle Shrine (cmm) 1006
Mossfire Valley

{1}, {T}: Add {R}{G}.

Land
Mossfire Valley (mkc) 274
Mosswort Bridge

Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.) This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {G}. {G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.

Land
Mosswort Bridge (moc) 415
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (lci) 400
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (lcc) 346
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (lci) 394
Secluded Courtyard

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type or activate an ability of a creature source of the chosen type.

Land
Secluded Courtyard (cmm) 1030
Sheltering Landscape

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic Mountain, Forest, or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Cycling {R}{G}{W} ({R}{G}{W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Sheltering Landscape (mh3) 227
Sungrass Prairie

{1}, {T}: Add {G}{W}.

Land
Sungrass Prairie (blc) 334
Terramorphic Expanse

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Terramorphic Expanse (cmm) 428
Unclaimed Territory

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type.

Land
Unclaimed Territory (cmm) 1050
Wooded Foothills

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Wooded Foothills (mh3) 236

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (fdc) 1
Atalan Jackal

Trample, haste Skilled Outrider — Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Atalan Jackal (40k) 105
Atzocan Seer

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Sacrifice this creature: Return target Dinosaur card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Atzocan Seer (rix) 153
Beanstalk Giant

Creature
Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps (plst) ELD-295
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (dsc) 174
Cursed Mirror

{T}: Add {R}. As this artifact enters, you may have it become a copy of any creature on the battlefield until end of turn, except it has haste.

Artifact
Cursed Mirror (mh3) 279
Faeburrow Elder

Vigilance This creature gets +1/+1 for each color among permanents you control. {T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.

Creature
Faeburrow Elder (eld) 380
Farseek

Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Farseek (pip) 197
Fellwar Stone

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (mkc) 228
Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (lcc) 304
Hulking Raptor

Ward {2} At the beginning of your first main phase, add {G}{G}.

Creature
Hulking Raptor (lci) 327
Kodama's Reach

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Kodama's Reach (cmm) 649
Marauding Raptor

Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever another creature you control enters, this creature deals 2 damage to it. If a Dinosaur is dealt damage this way, this creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.

Creature
Marauding Raptor (plst) M20-150
Otepec Huntmaster

Dinosaur spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {T}: Target Dinosaur gains haste until end of turn.

Creature
Otepec Huntmaster (xln) 153
Poetic Ingenuity

Whenever one or more Dinosaurs you control attack, create that many Treasure tokens. Whenever you cast an artifact spell, create a 3/1 red Dinosaur creature token. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Enchantment
Poetic Ingenuity (lci) 377
Progenitor's Icon

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add one mana of any color. {T}: The next spell of the chosen type you cast this turn can be cast as though it had flash.

Artifact
Progenitor's Icon (lcc) 68
Rampant Growth

Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (ltc) 257
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (40k) 249
Thunderherd Migration

As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand or pay {1}. Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Thunderherd Migration (rix) 149
Topiary Stomper

Vigilance (Attacking doesn't cause this creature to tap.) When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. This creature can't attack or block unless you control seven or more lands.

Creature
Topiary Stomper (snc) 290
Wayward Swordtooth

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) You may play an additional land on each of your turns. This creature can't attack or block unless you have the city's blessing.

Creature
Wayward Swordtooth (cmm) 331

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Big Creatures

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Ghalta, Primal Hunger

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the total power of creatures you control. Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)

Creature
Ghalta, Primal Hunger (fdn) 335
Pugnacious Hammerskull

Whenever this creature attacks while you don't control another Dinosaur, put a stun counter on it. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

Creature
Pugnacious Hammerskull (lci) 328
Quartzwood Crasher

Trample Whenever one or more creatures you control with trample deal combat damage to a player, create an X/X green Dinosaur Beast creature token with trample, where X is the amount of damage those creatures dealt to that player.

Creature
Quartzwood Crasher (iko) 341

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Mirror

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Sunfrill Imitator

Whenever this creature attacks, you may have it become a copy of another target Dinosaur you control, except its name is Sunfrill Imitator and it has this ability.

Creature
Sunfrill Imitator (lcc) 62

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Removal

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (sld) 322
Bronzebeak Foragers

When this creature enters, for each opponent, exile up to one target nonland permanent that player controls until this creature leaves the battlefield. {X}{W}: Put target card with mana value X exiled with this creature into its owner's graveyard. You gain X life.

Creature
Bronzebeak Foragers (lcc) 37
Contest of Claws

Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to another target creature. If excess damage was dealt this way, discover X, where X is that excess damage. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Sorcery
Contest of Claws (lcc) 24
Explosive Getaway

Exile up to one target artifact or creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. Explosive Getaway deals 4 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Explosive Getaway (dft) 202
Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant
Generous Gift (cmm) 624
Kogla and Yidaro

When Kogla and Yidaro enters, choose one — • It gains trample and haste until end of turn. • It fights target creature you don't control. {2}{R}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. Shuffle this card into your library from your graveyard, then draw a card.

Creature
Kogla and Yidaro (mom) 311
Scion of Calamity

Myriad (Whenever this creature attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy target artifact or enchantment that player controls.

Creature
Scion of Calamity (lcc) 61
Thrashing Brontodon

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Thrashing Brontodon (lci) 329
Warstorm Surge

Whenever a creature you control enters, it deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Enchantment
Warstorm Surge (40k) 209
Wrathful Raptors

Trample Whenever a Dinosaur you control is dealt damage, it deals that much damage to any target that isn't a Dinosaur.

Creature
Wrathful Raptors (lcc) 56

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Cut

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Lurking Predators

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a creature card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, you may put that card on the bottom of your library.

Enchantment
Lurking Predators (plst) M10-190
The Skullspore Nexus

This spell costs {X} less to cast, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control. Whenever one or more nontoken creatures you control die, create a green Fungus Dinosaur creature token with base power and toughness each equal to the total power of those creatures. {2}, {T}: Double target creature's power until end of turn.

Artifact
The Skullspore Nexus (lci) 340

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Maybeboard

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Birthing Pod

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) {1}{G/P}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Birthing Pod (nph) 104
Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature
Grand Abolisher (big) 2
Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar

Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn. Whenever one or more creatures you control each with power greater than its base power deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar (lci) 232
Oviya, Automech Artisan

Each creature that's attacking one of your opponents has trample. {G}, {T}: You may put a creature or Vehicle card from your hand onto the battlefield. If you put an artifact onto the battlefield this way, put two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Oviya, Automech Artisan (dft) 173
Pyre of Heroes

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card that shares a creature type with the sacrificed creature and has mana value equal to 1 plus that creature's mana value. Put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Pyre of Heroes (khm) 241

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Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (lci) 269
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (blb) 252

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Deck Info

Deck stats

10 pips - 10 cards
20 mana - 20 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 11 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 11 cards
26 pips - 20 cards
21 mana - 21 cards
51 pips - 37 cards
29 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
7 mana - 6 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Wincon: Lots of big dinosaurs attacking\nStrategy: Ramp as much as possible, keep at least one dinosaur in hand at all time to play around board wipes, keep mediocre dinosaurs you find during a discover triggers to play later\nMulligan: At least 3 lands and at least 1 piece of ramp\n\nDeck note: Add another land to 39, ideally triome\n"}]}
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