Animar 🌿🌴🪾🍁 by tymo

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This Animar, Soul of Elements deck is a high-power creature storm and combo strategy designed to assemble explosive, game-ending lines on Turn 4. The primary win condition leverages Animar's cost-reduction ability alongside Ancestral Statue. Once Animar holds four +1/+1 counters, Ancestral Statue costs {0} to cast and returns itself to hand upon entering the battlefield. By repeating this loop arbitrarily, Animar reaches infinite power and toughness while triggering creature-cast draw engines like Beast Whisperer or Soul of the Harvest to draw the entire library. The deck finishes immediately on the same turn by deploying Walking Ballista for zero mana with infinite counters to deal direct lethal damage to all opponents. If Animar is disrupted, the deck possesses a resilient secondary combo in Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator and Glint-Horn Buccaneer, capable of burning the table out during combat. Fast mana dorks, robust creature tutors, and targeted countermagic provide velocity, consistency, and protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Ancestral Statue
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Burgeoning
• 1 Carpet of Flowers
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Collector Ouphe
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1 Enduring Vitality
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exploration
• 1 Ezuri, Claw of Progress
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Force of Will
• 7 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Gemstone Mine
• 1 Gitaxian Probe
• 1 Glimpse of Nature
• 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Hydroid Krasis
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 1 Imperial Recruiter
• 4 Island
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Ketria Triome
• 1 Land Grant
• 1 Long-Term Plans
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1 Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Mental Misstep
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Necklace of Girion
• 1 Neoform
• 1 Noxious Revival
• 1 Nulldrifter
• 1 Orcish Lumberjack
• 1 Ouroboroid
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Sage of Hours
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Scrawling Crawler
• 1 Scythecat Cub
• 1 Season of Growth
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Simian Spirit Guide
• 1 Simic Ascendancy
• 1 Snap
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul of the Harvest
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Tam, Mindful First-Year
• 1 Tender Wildguide
• 1 Tinder Wall
• 1 Twitching Doll
• 1 Veil of Summer
• 1 Vexing Shusher
• 1 Vigor
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Yavimaya Coast