soul by kitsunefox

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Temur creature-storm and combo build helmed by Animar, Soul of Elements. The strategy accelerates on Turns 1 and 2 with efficient mana dorks to deploy Animar ahead of curve. On Turns 3 and 4, the deck chains low-cost utility creatures and +1/+1 counter multipliers to rapidly reduce generic casting costs. By Turn 5, it transitions into critical onset by deploying massive draw engines, cascading threats, or game-ending payoffs. The primary finish executes either through a lethal combat step enabled by Craterhoof Behemoth and haste enablers like Temur Ascendancy, or through the infinite mana loop of Deadeye Navigator and Peregrine Drake. Innate protection from white and black gives Animar natural durability against common spot removal, while a suite of free and low-cost protection spells ensures the final combo turn resolves unimpeded.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Imagination
  • 1 Atarka, World Render
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Landscape
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowner of Truth // Drowned Jungle
  • 1 Eldritch Immunity
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glaring Fleshraker
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Invigorating Surge
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Not of This World
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Void
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Super State
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Ugin, Eye of the Storms
  • 1 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zoanthrope