Animated Friends by ma98

Format: Commander

Commander: Tam, the Possibility

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color Superfriends and artifact-animation control deck commanded by Tam, the Possibility. The game plan revolves around deploying planeswalkers at a mana discount, then utilizing Tam's five-color activated ability to proliferate loyalty counters multiple times per turn. This rapid loyalty acceleration enables game-winning emblems and devastating ultimates from planeswalkers like Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God, Tamiyo, Field Researcher, and Kaya the Inexorable far ahead of normal timing. In parallel, the deck leverages a dense package of artifact animators including Rise and Shine, Displaced Dinosaurs, and March of the Machines to convert mana rocks and utility artifacts into lethal combat armies. It also features a notorious lockout ceiling with Karn, the Great Creator and Mycosynth Lattice. While the deck generates massive board value and compounding card advantage, its lack of instant-speed interaction and heavy reliance on vulnerable permanents leave it exposed to fast combo decks and well-timed creature sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alloy Animist
  • 1 Angelic Intervention
  • 1 Animating Faerie // Bring to Life
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Captain Rex Nebula
  • 1 Carth the Lion
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commodore Guff
  • 1 Curie, Emergent Intelligence
  • 1 Dack Fayden
  • 1 Displaced Dinosaurs
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Encroaching Mycosynth
  • 1 Evolution Sage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Commons
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Interplanar Beacon
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor
  • 1 Kaya the Inexorable
  • 1 Kilo, Apogee Mind
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lifecraft Awakening
  • 1 Liquimetal Coating
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Luxior, Giada's Gift
  • 1 March of the Machines
  • 1 Memnarch
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mycosynth Lattice
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
  • 1 Nissa, Vital Force
  • 1 Oath of Nissa
  • 1 Oath of Teferi
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Primevals' Glorious Rebirth
  • 1 Rings of Brighthearth
  • 1 Rise and Shine
  • 1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
  • 1 Seaside Citadel
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Diviner
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Stenn, Paranoid Partisan
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sydri, Galvanic Genius
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tam, the Possibility
  • 1 Tamiyo, Field Researcher
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tezzeret the Schemer
  • 1 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
  • 1 Tezzeret, Betrayer of Flesh
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Machinist
  • 1 The Antiquities War
  • 1 The Blackstaff of Waterdeep
  • 1 The Chain Veil
  • 1 The Peregrine Dynamo
  • 1 Vronos, Masked Inquisitor
  • 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
  • 1 Xenic Poltergeist
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast