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Devil Dinosaur

Devil Dinosaur

Legendary Creature — Dinosaur · {2}{G}{G} · Green commander

Trample Other Dinosaurs you control get +1/+1 and have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
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What Devil Dinosaur actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Devil Dinosaur deck needs

Plays as dinosaur typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Devil Dinosaur deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Devil Dinosaur

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  2. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  3. Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
  4. Kodama of the West Tree3 mana
  5. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  6. Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma4 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. Dragon Throne of Tarkir4 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria2 mana
  2. Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
  3. Ranging Raptors3 mana
  4. Runic Armasaur3 mana
  5. Thrashing Brontodon3 mana
  6. Topiary Stomper3 mana
  7. Dinosaur Egg2 mana
  8. Curious Altisaur4 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Beast Within3 mana
  2. Nature's Claim1 mana
  3. Emerald Charm1 mana
  4. Naturalize2 mana
  5. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  6. Natural State1 mana
  7. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  8. Archdruid's Charm3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  6. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  7. Chord of Calling3 mana
  8. Eldritch Evolution3 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  2. Needle Storm3 mana
  3. Hurricane1 mana
  4. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  5. Season of Gathering6 mana
  6. Gale Force5 mana
  7. Corrosive Gale1 mana
  8. Tropical Storm1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Sylvan Library2 mana
  3. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  4. Herald's Horn3 mana
  5. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Elemental Bond3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  2. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Asceticism5 mana
  6. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  7. Commander's Plate1 mana
  8. Mithril Coat3 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Incubation Druid2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  6. Heritage Druid1 mana
  7. Llanowar Tribe3 mana
  8. Chrome Mox0 mana

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