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Empire of the Sun
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $570.36
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Commander

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Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Whenever Pantlaza, Sun-Favored or another Dinosaur enters the battlefield under your control, 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
1

Boardwipe

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Don't Move

Destroy all tapped creatures. Until your next turn, whenever a creature becomes tapped, destroy it.

Sorcery
Don't Move (rex) 1
1
Star of Extinction

Destroy target land. Star of Extinction deals 20 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.

Sorcery
Star of Extinction (cmm) 259
1

Creature

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Flaming Tyrannosaurus

Menace Paradox — Whenever you cast a spell from anywhere other than your hand, Flaming Tyrannosaurus deals 3 damage to any target. Then put a +1/+1 counter on Flaming Tyrannosaurus. When Flaming Tyrannosaurus dies, it deals damage equal to its power to each opponent.

Creature
Flaming Tyrannosaurus (who) 85
1
Scion of Calamity

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

Creature
Scion of Calamity (lcc) 93
1

Dinosaur

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Belligerent Yearling

Trample Whenever another Dinosaur enters the battlefield under your control, you may have Belligerent Yearling's base power become equal to that creature's power until end of turn.

Creature
Belligerent Yearling (lci) 320
1
Palani's Hatcher

Other Dinosaurs you control have haste. When Palani's Hatcher enters the battlefield, create two 0/1 green Dinosaur Egg creature tokens. At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control one or more Eggs, sacrifice an Egg, then create a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token.

Creature
Palani's Hatcher (lci) 332
1
Pugnacious Hammerskull

Whenever Pugnacious Hammerskull 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
1
Rampaging Ceratops

Rampaging Ceratops can't be blocked except by three or more creatures.

Creature
Rampaging Ceratops (lci) 322
1
Scytheclaw Raptor

Whenever a player casts a spell, if it's not their turn, Scytheclaw Raptor deals 4 damage to them.

Creature
Scytheclaw Raptor (lci) 323
1
Sunfrill Imitator

Whenever Sunfrill Imitator 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) 94
1

Draw

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Curious Altisaur

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

Creature
Curious Altisaur (lcc) 90
1
Earthshaker Dreadmaw

Trample When Earthshaker Dreadmaw enters the battlefield, draw a card for each other Dinosaur you control.

Creature
Earthshaker Dreadmaw (lci) 325
1
For the Ancestors

Choose a creature type. Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal any number of cards of the chosen type from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. Flashback {3}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
For the Ancestors (cmm) 740
1
Herald's Horn

As Herald's Horn enters the battlefield, 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
1
Paleontologist's Pick-Axe

Artifact
Paleontologist's Pick-Axe // Dinosaur Headdress (lcc) 16Paleontologist's Pick-Axe // Dinosaur Headdress (lcc) 16
1
Ripjaw Raptor

Enrage — Whenever Ripjaw Raptor is dealt damage, draw a card.

Creature
Ripjaw Raptor (lcc) 253
1
Sylvan Library

At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.

Enchantment
Sylvan Library (dmr) 179
1
Vaultborn Tyrant

Trample Whenever Vaultborn Tyrant or another creature with power 4 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 3 life and draw a card. When Vaultborn Tyrant dies, if it's not a token, create a token that's a copy of it, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature
Vaultborn Tyrant (big) 20
1

Exile

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Bonehoard Dracosaur

Flying, first strike At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top two cards of your library. You may play them this turn. If you exiled a land card this way, create a 3/1 red Dinosaur creature token. If you exiled a nonland card this way, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Bonehoard Dracosaur (lci) 321
1
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
1
Dinosaur Egg

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

Creature
Dinosaur Egg (lcc) 92
1
Geological Appraiser

When Geological Appraiser enters the battlefield, if you cast it, discover 3. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 3 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
Geological Appraiser (lci) 150
1
Intrepid Paleontologist

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {2}: Exile target card from a graveyard. You may cast Dinosaur creature spells from among cards you own exiled with Intrepid Paleontologist. If you cast a spell this way, that creature enters the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

Creature
Intrepid Paleontologist (lci) 193
1
Lae'zel's Acrobatics

Exile all nontoken creatures you control, then roll a d20. 1—9 | Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step. 10—20 | Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control, then exile them again. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Lae'zel's Acrobatics (clb) 30
1
Passionate Archaeologist

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever you cast a spell from exile, this creature deals damage equal to that spell's mana value to target opponent."

Enchantment
Passionate Archaeologist (clb) 656
1
Quintorius Kand

Whenever you cast a spell from exile, Quintorius Kand deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life. +1: Create a 3/2 red and white Spirit creature token. −3: Discover 4. −6: Exile any number of target cards from your graveyard. Add {R} for each card exiled this way. You may play those cards this turn.

Planeswalker
Quintorius Kand (lci) 307
1
Teleportation Circle

At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target artifact or creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Enchantment
Teleportation Circle (afr) 39
1
Trumpeting Carnosaur

Trample When Trumpeting Carnosaur enters the battlefield, discover 5. {2}{R}, Discard Trumpeting Carnosaur: It deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Creature
Trumpeting Carnosaur (lci) 324
1

High Impact

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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 all colors until end of turn.

Instant
Akroma's Will (lcc) 125
1
Dinosaur Stampede

Attacking creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn. Dinosaurs you control gain trample until end of turn.

Instant
Dinosaur Stampede (xln) 140
1
Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Vigilance, trample, haste Whenever Gishath, Sun's Avatar 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
1
Huatli, Poet of Unity

Creature
Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People (lci) 296Huatli, Poet of Unity // Roar of the Fifth People (lci) 296
1
Kinjalli's Sunwing

Flying Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Creature
Kinjalli's Sunwing (lcc) 130
1
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 (lcc) 281
1
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) 88
1

Land

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Arid Mesa

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

Land
Arid Mesa (zne) 9
1
Bountiful Promenade

Bountiful Promenade enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Bountiful Promenade (zne) 20
1
Canopy Vista

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) Canopy Vista enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Canopy Vista (exp) 5
1
Cavern of Souls

As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, 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) 345
1
Cinder Glade

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) Cinder Glade enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.

Land
Cinder Glade (exp) 4
1
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (rex) 26
1
Commercial District

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) Commercial District enters the battlefield tapped. When Commercial District enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Commercial District (mkm) 324
1
Elegant Parlor

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) Elegant Parlor enters the battlefield tapped. When Elegant Parlor enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Elegant Parlor (mkm) 325
1
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (lci) 291
5
Jetmir's Garden

({T}: Add {R}, {G}, or {W}.) Jetmir's Garden enters the battlefield tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Jetmir's Garden (snc) 291
1
Lush Portico

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) Lush Portico enters the battlefield tapped. When Lush Portico enters the battlefield, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Lush Portico (mkm) 327
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (lci) 290
5
Overgrown Farmland

Overgrown Farmland enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Overgrown Farmland (mid) 283
1
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield 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 (cmm) 661
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (lci) 287
5
Rockfall Vale

Rockfall Vale enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Rockfall Vale (mid) 284
1
Sacred Foundry

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) As Sacred Foundry enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Sacred Foundry (rvr) 297
1
Spectator Seating

Spectator Seating enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Spectator Seating (cmm) 664
1
Spire Garden

Spire Garden enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {R} or {G}.

Land
Spire Garden (zne) 19
1
Stomping Ground

({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Stomping Ground (rvr) 299
1
Sundown Pass

Sundown Pass enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Sundown Pass (vow) 285
1
Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) As Temple Garden enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Temple Garden (rvr) 300
1
Windswept Heath

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

Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 360
1
Wooded Foothills

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

Land
Wooded Foothills (mh3) 361
1

Ramp

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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 (lcc) 235
1
Farseek

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

Sorcery
Farseek (rvr) 138
1
Hulking Raptor

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

Creature
Hulking Raptor (lci) 327
1
Nature's Lore

Search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Nature's Lore (mkc) 178
1
Progenitor's Icon

As Progenitor's Icon enters the battlefield, 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) 100
1
Rampant Growth

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

Sorcery
Rampant Growth (lcc) 248
1
Ranging Raptors

Enrage — Whenever Ranging Raptors is dealt damage, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Ranging Raptors (lcc) 249
1
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 (lcc) 259
1
Topiary Stomper

Vigilance When Topiary Stomper enters the battlefield, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Topiary Stomper can't attack or block unless you control seven or more lands.

Creature
Topiary Stomper (lcc) 261
1
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. Wayward Swordtooth can't attack or block unless you have the city's blessing.

Creature
Wayward Swordtooth (lcc) 263
1

Removal

Quantity: 11Price: $21.91
Beast Within

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

Instant
Beast Within (lcc) 233
1
Bronzebeak Foragers

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

Creature
Bronzebeak Foragers (lcc) 69
1
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) 12
1
Generous Gift

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

Instant
Generous Gift (lcc) 128
1
Get Lost

Destroy target creature, enchantment, or planeswalker. Its controller creates two Map tokens. (They're artifacts with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Instant
Get Lost (lci) 14
1
Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath

Haste When Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath enters the battlefield, you may pay {2}. When you do, target Dinosaur you control deals damage equal to its power to another target creature.

Creature
Itzquinth, Firstborn of Gishath (lci) 331
1
Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant
Lightning Bolt (clu) 141
1
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (mkc) 78
1
Pounce

Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)

Instant
Pounce (j22) 707
1
Thrashing Brontodon

{1}, Sacrifice Thrashing Brontodon: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Thrashing Brontodon (lci) 329
1
Wayta, Trainer Prodigy

Haste {2}{G}, {T}: Target creature you control fights another target creature. This ability costs {2} less to activate if it targets two creatures you control. If a creature you control being dealt damage causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Creature
Wayta, Trainer Prodigy (lcc) 7
1

Support

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Atla Palani, Nest Tender

{2}, {T}: Create a 0/1 green Egg creature token with defender. Whenever an Egg you control dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Atla Palani, Nest Tender (dmc) 142
1
From the Rubble

As From the Rubble enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. At the beginning of your end step, return target creature card of the chosen type from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it. (If a creature with a finality counter on it would die, exile it instead.)

Enchantment
From the Rubble (lcc) 72
1
Garruk's Uprising

When Garruk's Uprising enters the battlefield, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card. Creatures you control have trample. (They can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker they're attacking.) Whenever a creature with power 4 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card.

Enchantment
Garruk's Uprising (scd) 185
1
Otepec Huntmaster

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

Creature
Otepec Huntmaster (lcc) 229
1
Radiant Destiny

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) As Radiant Destiny enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. As long as you have the city's blessing, they also have vigilance.

Enchantment
Radiant Destiny (lcc) 135
1
Rhythm of the Wild

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

Enchantment
Rhythm of the Wild (rvr) 217
1
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
1

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Description

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