Animar cEDH by user5017041

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 80

Deck overview

This competitive Commander deck is built around Animar, Soul of Elements, operating as an explosive creature-based storm and combo engine. It accelerates mana rapidly using 0-1 CMC mana dorks, Spirit Guides, and fast artifacts to cast Animar on Turn 1 or 2. By chaining cheap creatures, the deck quickly places +1/+1 counters on Animar to drastically reduce generic creature costs. The primary victory condition is resolving Ancestral Statue once Animar has four counters, generating infinite storm, infinitely large power, and the ability to cast Walking Ballista for zero mana to eliminate all three opponents on Turn 3. The deck protects its combo using free countermagic, Veil of Summer, and silence-like effects from Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir, while slowing down opposing fast artifact mana with an asymmetric Collector Ouphe.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bond Beetle
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Charming Scoundrel
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hope of Ghirapur
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Myr Scrapling
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Radagast the Brown
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sowing Mycospawn
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 1 Sunshower Druid
  • 1 Supportive Parents
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
  • 1 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Transit Mage
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Wild Cantor
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Bellower
  • 1 Worldly Tutor