Animar the nasty by Blusnarf

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 58

Deck overview

This Animar, Soul of Elements list is a streamlined creature combo deck designed to accelerate rapidly and execute a decisive same-turn win. The primary strategy uses dense 1-drop mana dorks to deploy Animar on Turn 2, followed by cheap utility creatures to accumulate +1/+1 counters. Once Animar reaches four counters, Ancestral Statue becomes cost-free, enabling an infinite self-bouncing loop that generates arbitrarily large power on Animar. By bouncing an on-board tutor or draw creature during the loop, the deck seamlessly retrieves Walking Ballista to eliminate all three opponents immediately. The deck boasts outstanding functional redundancy through a rich creature-tutor suite and robust protection pieces like Sylvan Safekeeper, Spellskite, Destiny Spinner, and Veil of Summer. While it runs no proactive stax and remains vulnerable to Rule of Law effects, its speed and layered protection make it exceptionally consistent.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Ancestral Statue
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Bolt Bend
• 1 Botanical Sanctum
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Chord of Calling
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Cloud of Faeries
• 1 Cloudstone Curio
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Copperline Gorge
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Destiny Spinner
• 1 Dream Stalker
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Eldritch Evolution
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1 Elvish Visionary
• 1 Endless One
• 1 Endurance
• 1 Enduring Vitality
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Fierce Empath
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 5 Forest
• 1 Foundation Breaker
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Glimpse of Nature
• 1 Green Sun's Zenith
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Haywire Mite
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Imperial Recruiter
• 2 Island
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Mockingbird
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Neoform
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Peregrine Drake
• 1 Phantasmal Image
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Shrieking Drake
• 1 Simian Spirit Guide
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spellseeker
• 1 Spellskite
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Spirebluff Canal
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1 Tinder Wall
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Transit Mage
• 1 Veil of Summer
• 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Wild Cantor
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth