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Indominus Rex, Alpha
Legendary Creature — Dinosaur Mutant
As Indominus Rex enters, discard any number of creature cards. It enters with a flying counter on it if a card discarded this way has flying. The same is true for first strike, double strike, deathtouch, hexproof, haste, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, trample, and vigilance. When Indominus Rex enters, draw a card for each counter on it.
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“Self-milling dino that copies creature keywords into flying menace counters”
Midrange
Intermediate
Commander damage, Combat damage
Graveyard, Tokens, Aristocrats
Strategy
Indominus Rex is a self-mill payoff that rewards you for filling your graveyard with creatures. You'll discard creature cards as it enters, loading it up with counters based on the abilities those creatures had. This turns your graveyard into a resource—you're not losing cards, you're customizing your commander into a massive threat while drawing cards in the process. The deck wins by turning Indominus Rex into an evasive, efficient attacker that's hard to block or remove, often featuring multiple combat keywords that make it punch through defenses.
Your core game plan revolves around creature synergies: include creatures with powerful abilities you want to "steal" (flyers, evasion, protection), enablers that fill your graveyard naturally (creatures with cycling, mill effects, discard outlets), and ways to protect your threats. Grixis colors give you removal, card draw, and graveyard interaction to smooth out your draws and manage the board. You'll often win through commander damage once Indominus Rex is suited up with flying, trample, and other keywords that make it impossible to block profitably.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip pricey tutors like Vampiric Tutor; use cheaper draw spells like Divination and Frantic Search, and swap dual lands for budget Grixis mana like Evolving Wilds and Sheltered Thicket.
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