Animar by Bamboozled

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 58

Deck overview

This Temur deck leverages Animar, Soul of Elements to create an explosive creature engine that accelerates mana, card draw, and game-ending combos. By deploying 1-drop mana accelerators on Turn 1, the deck reliably casts Animar on Turn 2 and rapidly accumulates +1/+1 counters using low-cost utility creatures and morphs. The primary win condition centers on Ancestral Statue, which becomes free to cast once Animar has four counters, enabling an infinite self-bounce loop. Paired with Purphoros, God of the Forge or Beast Whisperer, this loop immediately deals lethal damage to the table or draws the entire library to deploy insurmountable board states. Innate protection from white and black shields Animar from the format's most common removal, while support cards like Deflecting Swat, Spellskite, and Hexing Squelcher safeguard the combo. If Animar is constrained, high-impact threats like Hullbreaker Horror, Cloudstone Curio, and Eldrazi titans provide robust backup routes.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Ancestral Statue
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Cloud of Faeries
• 1 Cloudstone Curio
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Ruin
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
• 1 Enduring Vitality
• 1 Equilibrium
• 1 Eshki, Temur's Roar
• 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Fiery Islet
• 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 1 Forest
• 1 Formidable Speaker
• 1 Genesis Hydra
• 1 Goldvein Hydra
• 1 Green Sun's Zenith
• 1 Hedge Maze
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Imperial Recruiter
• 1 Island
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Ketria Triome
• 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Mana Vault
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Mox Amber
• 1 Mox Opal
• 1 Myr Scrapling
• 1 Nulldrifter
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Peregrine Drake
• 1 Phantasmal Image
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Simian Spirit Guide
• 1 Snap
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Spellskite
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Temur Sabertooth
• 1 Thundering Falls
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Turbulent Springs
• 1 Turbulent Wilderness
• 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Waterlogged Grove
• 1 Wild Cantor
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Yavimaya Coast