Animar, Soul of Elements by user6437813

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Animar is both the mana engine and the primary win condition: cheap creature casts stack +1/+1 counters, discount every later creature spell, and eventually turn Animar into a giant trampling threat. The deck's secondary plan chains ETB/value creatures through Cloudstone Curio, Roaring Primadox, and Equilibrium to generate cards and board presence. The real kill comes from cascading into hasty Eldrazi and X-cost Tyranids, or from a deterministic Cloudstone Curio + Beast Whisperer loop that empties the hand and creates massive servants. There is no hidden commander; the deck is built entirely around Animar, Soul of Elements.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aberrant
  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Alora, Merry Thief
  • 1 Altered Ego
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Archetype of Aggression
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Broodlord
  • 1 Cityscape Leveler
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal Shard
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Equilibrium
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Flamerush Rider
  • 1 Flametongue Kavu
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Garruk Wildspeaker
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jalira, Master Polymorphist
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Lord of Change
  • 1 Lurking Predators
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mercurial Pretender
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nantuko Vigilante
  • 1 Noggle Hedge-Mage
  • 1 Open into Wonder
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Progenitor Mimic
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Renata, Called to the Hunt
  • 1 Roaring Primadox
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rubblehulk
  • 1 Screamer-Killer
  • 1 Shaman of the Great Hunt
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stampeding Elk Herd
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
  • 1 Sword of Forge and Frontier
  • 1 Termagant Swarm
  • 1 Tervigon
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Thragtusk
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Ulvenwald Hydra
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Volo, Guide to Monsters
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Whiptongue Hydra
  • 1 Wildfire Devils
  • 1 Willbender
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 World Breaker