Yesterday I talked briefly about my love of being able to play dinosaurs in MtG thanks to our visit to the Ixalan plane. I also looked at probably one of the star cards for green from the set, Carnage Tyrant.

In today’s post I thought I’d look at another card that won’t be with us for much longer, because it will be keeping Carnage Tyrant company when the Ixalan block rotates out. Yeah I know why am I only just looking at these cards now then? Because, reasons!

But over the last few months I’ve grown to really like this card.

Today we are looking at a great utility card for green, which is definitely a really good sideboard card, and that’s Thrashing Brontodon.

At 3 CMC for a 3/4 body it’s pretty good. Plus it doesn’t die to removal after it hits the battleground. Well unless they hit it a couple of times. Which I’ll take that trade any day. Plus it can block and still be around afterwards.

But in this current Standard meta where enchantments like Wilderness Reclamation and Experimental Frenzy are very popular, there has to be some form of removal in your deck. That’s where the ability of paying one mana and sacrificing Thrashing Brontodon comes in. If you pay that cost, you lose the body naturally, but you get rid of that enchantment or artifact.

I can assure you Wilderness Reclamation especially with a couple out can be abused in combination with the right cards. I’ve already in a previous post about my Simic deck described one such situation. And John the owner of my FLGS has been on the receiving end of such an abuse. I’ve been on the receiving end of an Experimental Frenzy. Not fun if you can’t get rid of it.

And that’s why you will find copies of Thrashing Brontodon in the sideboard of a lot of decks that splash green in Standard. In my Commander decks it’s an instant include. And despite technically not being a big stompy creature it’s in my big stompy deck.

With the almost default inclusion of Llanowar Elves in decks with green, having your copy of Thrashing Brontodon out turn two is a realistic play. But even if not, it’s still a great turn three play.

If you are remotely interested what card would you like me to look at next in the current Standard legal sets? You will notice that these two posts so far have been from the Ixalan block, and cards that I have used and played in my decks. But more than happy to talk about other cards.