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Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
I like the idea of Raptor Hacthling. I saw some people speculating on a Roc Egg type of effect, and this is sort of it.
When you hurt the little baby dino, it calls in a big brother/sister/parent to fight back. Added bonus if you can make the little guy indestructible and keep pinging him. He keeps crying and calling in more and more of his family.
Raptor Hatchling reminds of Brindle Shoat, though mechanically I think shoat is better.
Not as impressed with Ranging Raptors. It appears that a decent dinosaur deck will be extremly dependant on good enrage enablers, which I'm not sure there are enough.
Ravenous Daggertooth makes no sense whatsoever flavorwise. You enrage a t-rex-looking dinosaur and you... gain life? What?
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Not as impressed with Ranging Raptors. It appears that a decent dinosaur deck will be extremly dependant on good enrage enablers, which I'm not sure there are enough.
You understand that creatures generally take damage when they block, right?
Yay a few lower mana cost dinos. and dang Raptor Hatchling is powerful, so many ways you can abuse it. Ranging Raptors also is good since Dinos wants to be three colors and you can most often get a land out of them.
I really like enrage as a sorta punisher mechanic. Must better then tribute was in this regard.
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It's shocking that, while we've seen individual cards with Enrage without the name, it took them 25 years to print such a fun, flavorful, pseudo-keyword en masse. It's pretty great.
As I first suspected, for EDH the Dino.dec is going to want to play stuff like Pyrohemia and Warmonger and Fire Ants to abuse the crap out of enrage effects.
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Enrage is a fantastic mechanic. Reminds me of Revolt in that it can be really good in Standard, but potentially super powerful in older formats with a larger card pool. Unfortunately, enrage is a lot tougher to enable than revolt, but the cards seem to be way better.
Welp, Savage Stomp just made thundering strides toward constructed playability. It does sort of amuse me that the sun-centric dinos are naturally resilient to Sweltering Suns. Go ahead, do 3 to everything. I ain't even mad. In fact, I may just cast it myself.
Raptor Hatchling is your low-drop Dinosaur that will probably be in every Dinosaur deck, plus it has added upside that makes it useful even if it dies to damage. It's also simply adorable. I mean, look at the little guy!
Ravenous Daggertooth is a limited bomb that could see constructed play as an above-the-curve aggro creature with a little bit of upside. Works great with other Dinos that can buff it.
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Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
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When you hurt the little baby dino, it calls in a big brother/sister/parent to fight back. Added bonus if you can make the little guy indestructible and keep pinging him. He keeps crying and calling in more and more of his family.
The first one seems good enough for standard as well
Modern:
Grixis Shadow
Burn
Titanshift
Copycat (Given up currently, not entirely sure what it needs)
Legacy:
Burn
B/R Reanimator (slowly building
EDH:
Sedris Control/Reanimation
Not as impressed with Ranging Raptors. It appears that a decent dinosaur deck will be extremly dependant on good enrage enablers, which I'm not sure there are enough.
Ravenous Daggertooth makes no sense whatsoever flavorwise. You enrage a t-rex-looking dinosaur and you... gain life? What?
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That being said, these are all very, very powerful dinos, and I have no doubt that Dinosaurs.dec is going to be a major player in Standard.
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You understand that creatures generally take damage when they block, right?
Here you go.
Not a card, but should do the job.
I really like enrage as a sorta punisher mechanic. Must better then tribute was in this regard.
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There is probably simpler, Enrage is once a turn right? Or is any number of times in a single turn?
As I first suspected, for EDH the Dino.dec is going to want to play stuff like Pyrohemia and Warmonger and Fire Ants to abuse the crap out of enrage effects.
RCRDaretti: Superfriends Forever RCR
WGBDoran: Ent-mootWBG
GGGMultani: Group Bear HugGGG
GB(B/G)The Gitrog Monster: Dredgefall DurdleGB(B/G)
RGWGahiji, the Honored Group Hug MonsterRGW
UB(U/B)Yuriko, Ninja Trinket AggroUB(U/B)
WUBRGAtogatog: Assembling a OHKOWUBRG
Simplest way is probably the pump fight card.
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Raptor Hatchling is your low-drop Dinosaur that will probably be in every Dinosaur deck, plus it has added upside that makes it useful even if it dies to damage. It's also simply adorable. I mean, look at the little guy!
Ravenous Daggertooth is a limited bomb that could see constructed play as an above-the-curve aggro creature with a little bit of upside. Works great with other Dinos that can buff it.