Animar Eldrazi by vipercheekz

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck pairs Animar, Soul of Elements with high-impact Eldrazi titans and colorless synergies. The game plan focuses on rapid early acceleration through 1-mana dorks, deploying Animar on Turn 2, and quickly accumulating +1/+1 counters using low-cost utility creatures. As Animar grows, its generic mana reduction turns expensive Eldrazi like Kozilek, Butcher of Truth, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, and Breaker of Creation into near-free spells. The deck generates massive card velocity through on-cast draw triggers and overwhelming board states that crush opposing resources via Annihilator. Additionally, the deck packs an infinite combo finish: with four counters on Animar, Ancestral Statue bounces and recasts itself for free, creating an arbitrarily large Animar and triggering lethal damage from Glaring Fleshraker or drawing the entire library with Kozilek's Unsealing. Robust protection spells and uncounterable creature enablers ensure the deck can deploy its threats through heavy interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancestral Statue
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Artisan of Kozilek
• 1 Awakening Zone
• 1 Bane of Bala Ged
• 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blightsteel Colossus
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Breaker of Creation
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Ruin
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Echoes of Eternity
• 1 Eldrazi Temple
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Eye of Ugin
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fierce Empath
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flayer of Loyalties
• 1 Flooded Grove
• 7 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Forsaken Monument
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Glaring Fleshraker
• 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Herald of Kozilek
• 1 Herigast, Erupting Nullkite
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Innkeeper's Talent
• 3 Island
• 1 It That Betrays
• 1 It That Heralds the End
• 1 Ketria Triome
• 1 Kozilek's Command
• 1 Kozilek's Predator
• 1 Kozilek's Unsealing
• 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Monstrous Vortex
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Nulldrifter
• 1 Oblivion Sower
• 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1 Path of Annihilation
• 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
• 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Repulsive Mutation
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Royal Treatment
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Strionic Resonator
• 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Titan's Presence
• 1 Turbulent Wilderness
• 1 Ugin, Eye of the Storms
• 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
• 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1 Urza's Incubator
• 1 Void Grafter
• 1 Void Shatter
• 1 Wastescape Battlemage
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Yavimaya Coast