Mutate Animar by user5289438

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power creature storm and combo strategy led by Animar, Soul of Elements. The primary game plan accelerates out Animar on Turn 2 using efficient one-mana ramp, rapidly grows Animar's +1/+1 counters using cheap utility creatures, and tutors for Ancestral Statue. Once Animar holds four counters, Ancestral Statue casts for zero mana and bounces itself repeatedly to generate infinite counters and enter-the-battlefield triggers. The deck converts this loop into an immediate same-turn victory using damage outlets like Agate Instigator, General Kreat, the Boltbringer, or Walking Ballista. Built-in protection from white and black safeguards Animar from prominent spot removal, while creature engines such as Beast Whisperer and Hullbreaker Horror provide sustained card advantage and board control. If Animar is disrupted or removed, secondary infinite mana combos like Deadeye Navigator paired with Peregrine Drake provide a reliable backup route to close the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Auspicious Starrix
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beastcaller Savant
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brutalizer Exarch
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Commune with Nature
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Dream Stalker
  • 1 Dreamtail Heron
  • 1 Eladamri, Korvecdal
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Elvish Visionary
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gemrazer
  • 1 General Kreat, the Boltbringer
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hulking Metamorph
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Illuna, Apex of Wishes
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Joraga Treespeaker
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Legolas Greenleaf
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Migratory Greathorn
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Phyrexian Revoker
  • 1 Pir, Imaginative Rascal
  • 1 Pouncing Shoreshark
  • 1 Primordial Sage
  • 1 Rikku, Resourceful Guardian
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea-Dasher Octopus
  • 1 Shared Summons
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sister of Silence
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Spider-Man, Brooklyn Visionary
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Tender Wildguide
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Transcendent Dragon
  • 1 Transit Mage
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wave Goodbye
  • 1 Welding Jar
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zoanthrope