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Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur // Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Elder Dinosaur
Trample When Etali enters, each player exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card. You may cast any number of spells from among the nonland cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs. {9}{G/P}: Transform Etali. Activate only as a sorcery.
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“Attack for free spells; turn combat into card advantage engine.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Ramp, Landfall, Voltron
Strategy
Etali, Primal Conqueror is a big red-green stomper that rewards you for attacking by exiling the top card of each player's library and letting you cast those spells for free. This is basically a repeatable, multiplayer-friendly card advantage engine that turns combat into a miniature tutor effect. You're looking to ramp into Etali, protect it (it has indestructible, which is fantastic), and attack early and often to generate value.
Once Etali hits the board, your gameplan is straightforward: swing in, generate free spells, and watch the board state spiral in your favor. The transform side (Etali, Primal Sickness) gives you another tool if Etali dies or if you want to pivot to a grindy endgame—it still exiles from the top of libraries but on a smaller, evasive body. Your main win condition is ramping fast, attacking repeatedly, and burying opponents under the card advantage and tempo swings you generate. This deck rewards aggression without needing a strict aggro curve, so it sits nicely in the midrange space.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey mana bases and use basics; replace Siege Rhino or Savage Lands with Sheltered Thicket, and run Cragcrown Pathway over fetches.
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