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Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Legendary Creature — Dinosaur

Pantlaza wants a deck that casts extra spells for free off the top of its deck. It leads the ready-made Veloci-Ramp-Tor deck (2023).

  • Mana cost2 genericredgreenwhite
  • White, Red, Green ()
  • Power / toughness4 / 4
  • RarityMythic

Whenever Pantlaza or another Dinosaur you control enters, you may discover X, where X is that creature's toughness. Do this only once each turn. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with that mana value or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

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Cards That Fit Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Picked for what they do in Pantlaza's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Pantlaza's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Decks Led by Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

Ready-made decks and decks players have shared, all with Pantlaza in charge.PreconShort for preconstructed deck: a ready-to-play deck sold in a box by Wizards of the Coast. A Commander precon comes with its commander and all 100 cards, so you can play it straight away and change cards later.Open the full glossary

Rulings for Pantlaza, Sun-Favored

explain how Pantlaza works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2023

A spell's mana value is determined only by its mana cost. Ignore any alternative costs, additional costs, cost increases, or cost reductions.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2023

If the discovered card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2023

If you can't cast the discovered card (perhaps because there are no legal targets for the spell), you'll put it into your hand.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2023

If you cast a spell "without paying its mana cost", you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the spell has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast it.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2023

If you discover an adventurer card, split card, or modal double-faced card, you might be able to cast that card with either set of characteristics depending on the effect's discover value. For example, if you discover 4 and reveal Galvanic Giant (an adventurer card from Wilds of Eldraine with a mana value of 4), you could cast Galvanic Giant, but not Storm Reading (its Adventure, which has a mana value of 7). If you discover 7 and reveal Galvanic Giant, you could cast either Galvanic Giant or Storm Reading.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2023

Once you decide to discover using Pantlaza's ability, that ability will stop triggering for the duration of that turn.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2023

Some spells and abilities that cause you to discover may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and you won't discover.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2023

The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves. If discover allows you to cast a split card, you may cast either half (as long as its mana value is less than or equal to the effect's discover value) but not both halves.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2023

The value of X is calculated only once, as the ability resolves. If the creature has left the battlefield, use its toughness as it last existed on the battlefield.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2023

When you discover, you must exile cards. The only optional part of the ability is whether you cast the exiled card or put it into your hand.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2023

You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.

11 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

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Commanders that share the most with Pantlaza, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryWRGPlayers write colors as letters: W for white, R for red, G for green.Cascade/Free CastCascade decks cast extra spells for free, straight from the top of their deck, every time they cast the right card. Cascade turns over cards from the top of your library until it hits a cheaper spell, which you may cast without paying for it.Open the Cascade/Free Cast pageFree CastCan be cast without paying its mana cost when a condition is met, often "if you control your commander". Because it costs nothing, you can still answer something after your mana is already spent. Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting SwatOpen the Free Cast pageTypal/KindredTypal decks are built around one creature type, like Elves, Dragons or Zombies, with cards that make that type stronger. The type is printed after the dash on the card's type line, and the strategy is also called kindred or tribal.Open the Typal/Kindred pageTypal PayoffRewards you for playing lots of one kind of creature. That includes "lords" that make every other Goblin or Merfolk you control bigger, and cards that ask you to choose a creature type and then pay you off for it. A creature type is the word on the middle line of the card, like Goblin, Elf or Zombie.Open the Typal Payoff pageDinosaursDinosaurs are mostly green, red and white creatures, often big, and some have enrage: they do something whenever they are dealt damage.Open the Dinosaurs pageLibrary ManipulationCards that let you look at, rearrange or play from the top of your deck, so you control what you draw next.Open the Library Manipulation page