Cascading Elements by Hatakashi_92

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur Elemental tribal stompy deck commanded by Animar, Soul of Elements. The primary strategy accelerates mana through low-cost mana dorks like Smokebraider and Flamebraider, allowing Animar to enter the battlefield on Turn 3. Once deployed, casting cheap Elementals quickly adds +1/+1 counters to Animar, discounting the generic mana costs of subsequent creature spells. By Turn 5, this discount enables explosive turns where the deck casts high-mana Elemental bombs such as Maelstrom Wanderer, Omnath, Locus of Rage, and Phylath, World Sculptor at heavy discounts. Maelstrom Wanderer grants the entire board haste and cascades into additional threats, establishing a decisive board presence. Over the subsequent two turn cycles, the wide Elemental army attacks to eliminate all three opponents through overwhelming combat damage, supported by Akroma's Memorial and asymmetric bounce from Sunderflock. A suite of nine counterspells shields key spells from removal, though the deck remains vulnerable to board wipes and card-advantage exhaustion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Argoth, Sanctum of Nature
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Ashling the Pilgrim
  • 1 Averna, the Chaos Bloom
  • 1 Bigger on the Inside
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Broken Wings
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Champion of the Path
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Cinder Elemental
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Creeping Trailblazer
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Dawn-Blessed Pennant
  • 1 Deprive
  • 1 Destructive Revelry
  • 1 Diamond Weapon
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eclipsed Flamekin
  • 1 Embodiment of Insight
  • 1 Emerald Medallion
  • 1 Eris, Roar of the Storm
  • 1 Flamebraider
  • 1 Flamekin Herald
  • 1 Forceful Denial
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Ivy Elemental
  • 1 Jyoti, Moag Ancient
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Lavacore Elemental
  • 1 Leyline Immersion
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Malignus
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Manamorphose
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Octavia, Living Thesis
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Rage
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Roil
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Paradox Engine
  • 1 Phylath, World Sculptor
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Roil Elemental
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Smokebraider
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulbright Seeker
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunderflock
  • 1 Tale's End
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Titania, Voice of Gaea
  • 1 Trap Essence
  • 1 Twinflame Travelers
  • 1 Undergrowth Champion
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Voidslime
  • 1 Volcanic Torrent
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil