The_Cardboard_Chemist
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Pauper EDH
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Commander
Ghalta the Immovable
This spell costs less to cast, where X is the greatest toughness among creatures you control.
Creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender.
Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Creatures you control can attack as though they didn't have defender.
Each creature you control with toughness greater than its power assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Legendary Creature - Elder Dinosaur
Commander
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Bounce
Bounce
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Counters
Counters
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Creature
Creature
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Cycling
Cycling
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Draw
Draw
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Land
Hidden Courtyard
This land enters tapped.
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, , Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 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.)
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, , Sacrifice this land: Discover 4. Activate only as a sorcery. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 4 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.)
Land - Cave
Land
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Lifegain
Lifegain
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Protection
Protection
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Pump
Stagecoach Security
When this creature enters, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain vigilance until end of turn.
Plot (You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Plot (You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Creature - Human Soldier
Pump
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Ramp
Page, Loose Leaf
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Grandeur — Discard another card named Page, Loose Leaf: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an instant or sorcery card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Grandeur — Discard another card named Page, Loose Leaf: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal an instant or sorcery card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Construct
Ramp
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Recursion
Return Triumphant
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Create a Young Hero Role token attached to it. (Enchanted creature has "Whenever this creature attacks, if its toughness is 3 or less, put a +1/+1 counter on it." If you put another Role on the creature later, put this one into the graveyard.)
Sorcery
Recursion
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Removal
Removal
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Untap
Untap
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{"ops":[{"insert":"## This is Built Dino Tough\n\n**TLDR:**\nPlay cheap big toughness creatures to get Ghalta down early, then swing out with your suddenly massive threats. \n\n**Turn 1-3**\nYou want to start the game with a one mana big toughness creature so that you can start with blockers and reduce the cost of Ghalta. Creatures include things like [[Kinjalli's Caller]], [[Steel Wall]], or [[Elite Interceptor]]. After that you really want to hit ramp because even with the toughness reduction Ghalta still costs a lot. So cards like [[Ornithopter of Paradise]], or [[Page, Loose Leaf]] really help get us there early. \n\n**Turn 4**\nPlay Ghalta and swing with all of those unassuming low power creatures you had previously. \n\n**Turn 5+**\nKeep playing threats and your game plan at this point is to try and control the board and find your big pump spells. Cards like [[solidarity]] or [[bar the door]] can help you push through for the win. \n\n**How to stay alive**\nThe biggest weakness in this deck is not keeping your hand full. Make sure you are strategic about what you play out after Ghalta is here and hope you hit some of your card advantage spells like [[your temple is under attack]] or pauper all star [[Howling golem]]\n\n**Should I keep my opening hand?**\nDo you have a reasonably high chance of playing Ghalta on Turn 4? If not, I would recommend mulliganing. It is also reassuring to have card draw or land cycling in your hand as well. \n\nIf you want to see this deck in action check out our recent podcast episode where we took on the folks from the MTG Thoughcast in a battle of Reality Fracture. \n\nhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/4Jf7AMje5LuLJr9YMjtGlA?si=PWq3_hsUR4a2I77gpf721A\n\n"}]}