Standard - Naya Dinosaurs

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This deck looks to have an explosive opener with Siegehorn Ceratopsimage and enrage self-triggers like Savage Stompimage and Tilonalli's Crownimage. With a good opening hand (Siegehorn Ceratopsimage, Tilonalli's Crownimage, and mana to cast them) you can present a 7/4 Trample on turn 3. With a great hand (above plus Savage Stompimage) you can have a 10/7 Trample on turn 3.

Once that's done it passes the play to Forerunner of the Empireimage and good value Enrage dinosaurs like Ranging Raptorsimage and Ripjaw Raptorimage. Regisaur Alphaimage, and Carnage Tyrantimage round out the mix with one-ofs of Trapjaw Tyrantimage and Ghalta, Primal Hungerimage.

It works like this: Forerunner comes down. Tutor up a dude (depending on the state of the board I am usually looking for Regisaur Alphaimage, Ghalta, Primal Hungerimage, or Trapjaw Tyrantimage. Regisaur gives all dinos haste and lays  alsodown a dude, which triggers Forerunner twice doing one damage to each creature twice which will hopefully let you draw two cards off of Ripjaw Raptorimage, and/or tutor up two basic lands to the battlefield via Ranging Raptorsimage, and/or put four +1/+1 counters on your Siegehorn Ceratopsimage and/or exile two of your opponents things with Trapjaw Tyrantimage. Plus the two damage will hopefully clear out some dorks from your opponent's board.

Playing any enrage dino with a Forerunner on the field will automatically trigger its enrage, so you're laying down a dude and drawing a card or tutoring up a land or exiling things or building your dorks. I like to use Trapjaw Tyrantimage for some surprising (and easily repeatable) removal.

For end game we're running Carnage Tyrantimage and Ghalta, Primal Hungerimage. Ghalta will nearly always be a 12/12 Trampler for 2 green mana. If she has haste from Regisaur Alphaimage then she usually comes down and swings in before the opponent has a chance to do anything about her.

Lastly we have Savage Stompimage for removal with a +1/+1 counter and an Enrage trigger and we will never ever cast it for more than 1 mana. We have Crash the Rampartsimage for a fun combat trick that makes a big dino bigger and gives Trample and then we have 2 copies of Flingimage to close out the game. Flinging a Ghalta or Carrnage Tyrant, or even a beefed up Siegehorn Ceratops will win most games.

With the obvious exception of Ghalta, Primal Hungerimage the mana curve caps out at 6, so we don't have to spend a lot of energy ramping up, but we do have a couple of tricks up our sleeve to speed up our game a little. Thunderherd Migrationimage is a very efficient land grabber when you have a dino to show, though sometimes I will pay full price if I don't want the opponent to know what I have, or if I want to trick the opponent into thinking I don't have anything (or if I legitimately don't have anything lol). Ranging Raptorsimage gets a lot of lands when it's doing its job. Lastly we run two copies of the legendary artifact Rhonas's Monumentimage to make our green dinos cost less (with the exception of Trapjaw Tyrantimage and Forerunner of the Empireimage they're all green). The monument gives us the added bonus of pumping a dude when we cast a creature spell, which is super nice.

Landbase is 10 basics for Ranging Raptorsimage and Thunderherd Migrationimage to find. Then dual lands that produce green and something else. I like the Amonkhet dual lands Sheltered Thicketimage and Scattered Grove because they count as both a forest and a mountain or plains which allows our check lands Rootbound Cragimage and Sunpetal Groveimage to enter untapped later. Lastly we run 1 copy of Unclaimed Territoryimage. We could probably get away with running more, but it feels bad if Unclaimed Territoryimage is our only source of colored mana and we need to cast a sorcery, instant, enchantment, or a human (Forerunner). Overall we have 17 lands that can produce green and 10 that can do white and 10 that do red.

Sideboard is going to be personal to your meta, but most notably I run 4 copies of Rileimage, to switch out Savage Stompimage in matchups that don't run creatures. Unfortunately, without stuff to enrage off-of, our dinos feel kind of sluggish., so Rileimage lets us trigger Enrage ourselves, gives the dude Trample and draws us a card (all for 1 red Mana?!). It's like they say, "If you want something done, you have to do it yourself."

I've also got a Polyraptorimage to switch out with the Trapjaw Tyrantimage in matchups that don't run a lot of creatures. It costs 8 to cast, which doesn't feel nice, but when it fires off with a Forerunner on the field it sure is fun. 7 5/5's on the field is no joke, espexially if Regisaur Alphaimage is there to give them haste. Remember Forerunner of the Empireimage's second ability is a "may" ability so you don't have to kill off your stuff if you don't want to, but it's often worth it.

Overall the deck works very well. It is obviously stronger when facing off against creature-based decks, and it is especially fun when playing against decks that are running Goblin Chainwhirlerimage. Often they forget about our enrage so they lay it down and we draw cards and get lands from it, then it sits in their hand as a dead card the rest of the game.

Ive been working on this deck pretty intensely for the last year, and I feel I have a well-tuned Naya Dino deck here. That being said, I am very open to suggestions for improvement.

Now get out there and Savage Stompimage those jerks!

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Last Updated: 04 Sep 2018
Created: 03 Sep 2018
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Mainboard - 60 cards (22 distinct)

Creature (21)
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Land (23)
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Sideboard - 15 cards (5 distinct)

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$21.21€13.660.02
$0.45€0.330.03
$0.24€0.110.03
$11.19€7.970.02

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