New Untitled Deck by user5849212

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This Animar, Soul of Elements deck functions as a creature storm and combo strategy that leverages cost reduction to deploy massive threats rapidly. The game plan starts with early mana acceleration using 1-mana elves to cast Animar, Soul of Elements on Turn 2. On subsequent turns, cheap utility creatures enter the battlefield to place +1/+1 counters on Animar, drastically reducing the generic mana cost of future creature spells. Drawing engines like Beast Whisperer, Guardian Project, and The Great Henge replenish the hand with every creature cast. The primary win condition is achieved by resolving Ancestral Statue once Animar has at least four counters. The Statue costs zero mana and repeatedly bounces itself to hand, growing Animar to arbitrary power and triggering draw engines. The deck converts this loop into an immediate table kill using Terror of the Peaks, Walking Ballista, or Chandra's Ignition, backed by protective spells like Deflecting Swat and Veil of Summer.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastcaller Savant
  • 1 Biophagus
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Equilibrium
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Growth Curve
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kogla, the Titan Ape
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Primordial Sage
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shared Summons
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Steel Hellkite
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Tishana, Voice of Thunder
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Wirewood Symbiote
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast