Pantlaza, Sun-Favored
Legendary Creature — Dinosaur
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.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander
- Price
- $3.54
- EDHREC rank
- #2397
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored turns every Dinosaur you cast into a free Discover trigger, snowballing board presence faster than most tribal engines can match. The cost is real — you need a critical mass of Dinosaurs to keep the chain going — but Gishath, Sun's Avatar proved that density isn't hard to hit in this tribe.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Gishath, Sun's Avatar is the natural home: both cards reward stacking the deck with Dinosaurs, and Pantlaza, Sun-Favored's Discover triggers convert Gishath's combat damage into an even deeper cascade of free creatures.
Atla Palani, Nest Tender
Atla Palani, Nest Tender cheats big creatures into play, and Pantlaza, Sun-Favored makes each of those creatures immediately generate another Discover trigger — the two together compress the curve dramatically.
Zacama, Primal Calamity
Zacama, Primal Calamity tops the Dinosaur curve, and Pantlaza, Sun-Favored ensures that casting Zacama or anything leading up to it digs deeper into the deck, keeping the threat density high.
Wayta, Trainer Prodigy
Wayta, Trainer Prodigy cares about creatures with power equal to or greater than other creatures you control, and Pantlaza, Sun-Favored's Discover chain reliably floods the board with the large-bodied Dinosaurs that make Wayta's ability fire repeatedly.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Pantlaza, Sun-Favored is a Commander card through and through — a five-mana legendary with a triggered ability that only scales with a tribal density that 99-card decks are built to support. Legacy and Vintage permit it, but a five-mana do-nothing-on-entry creature has no footing in those formats. Commander is the only context where the Discover engine gets to run at full speed, turning each Dinosaur cast into a self-sustaining chain of threats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$3.54 cheap tier
At $3.54, Pantlaza, Sun-Favored sits in budget-commander territory despite being the headliner of a popular tribe. Dinosaur tribal shows no signs of losing its playerbase, so demand should keep it from bottoming out further.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.