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Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Avatar · {5}{R}{G}{W} · Green/Red/White commander

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.
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What Gishath, Sun's Avatar actually does

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What a Gishath, Sun's Avatar deck needs

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

The Gishath, Sun's Avatar deck plan

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

Best cards for Gishath, Sun's Avatar

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.

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  2. Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
  3. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Goblin War Drums3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. Gruul War Chant4 mana
  8. On Wings of Gold4 mana

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

  1. Akroma's Will4 mana
  2. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  3. Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
  4. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  5. Iroas, God of Victory4 mana
  6. The Wind Crystal4 mana
  7. Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
  8. Inquisitorial Rosette2 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. Marauding Raptor2 mana
  3. Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
  4. Prehistoric Pet1 mana
  5. Rampaging Ferocidon3 mana
  6. Ranging Raptors3 mana
  7. Runic Armasaur3 mana
  8. Scytheclaw Raptor3 mana

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

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  4. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  5. Beast Within3 mana
  6. Generous Gift3 mana
  7. Nature's Claim1 mana
  8. Erode1 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. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Day of Judgment4 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  8. Split Up3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Sylvan Library2 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Herald's Horn3 mana
  7. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  8. Archivist of Oghma2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Bastion Protector3 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  6. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  7. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Boros Signet2 mana
  3. Gruul Signet2 mana
  4. Incubation Druid2 mana
  5. Palladium Myr3 mana
  6. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  7. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  8. Selesnya Signet2 mana

Combos with Gishath, Sun's Avatar

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Gishath, Sun's Avatar is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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