Animar by user1104271

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Temur creature combo strategy built around Animar, Soul of Elements. The primary plan leverages low-cost mana dorks and morph creatures to rapidly load +1/+1 counters onto Animar. Because Animar discounts generic mana costs of creature spells, face-down morphs and utility creatures become free or cost single colored pips. Once Animar reaches 4 counters, Ancestral Statue can be cast for {0} mana and bounce itself repeatedly to create infinite storm, enters-the-battlefield triggers, and an infinitely large commander. The deck translates this loop into an immediate same-turn victory on turn 5 via Purphoros, God of the Forge burn, mass bounce with Tidespout Tyrant, or a lethal trample swing powered by Maelstrom Wanderer and Craterhoof Behemoth. Innate protection from white and black shields Animar from premier removal, while low-cost counterspells and morph redirects defend critical combo turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ainok Survivalist
• 1 Ancestral Statue
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Artisan of Kozilek
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Beastcaller Savant
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Birthing Pod
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Chord of Calling
• 1 Cloud of Faeries
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Den Protector
• 1 Draining Whelk
• 1 Drover of the Mighty
• 1 Duplicant
• 1 Earthcraft
• 1 Elgaud Shieldmate
• 1 Elvish Visionary
• 1 Equilibrium
• 1 Evolutionary Leap
• 1 Farhaven Elf
• 1 Fierce Empath
• 7 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Garruk's Horde
• 1 Glamerdye
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Glimpse of Nature
• 1 Grixis Panorama
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 7 Island
• 1 Izzet Boilerworks
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1 Llanowar Reborn
• 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1 Mischievous Quanar
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Snake
• 1 Nantuko Vigilante
• 1 Naya Panorama
• 1 Opal Palace
• 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1 Palinchron
• 1 Peregrine Drake
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1 Raven Familiar
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Shrieking Drake
• 1 Silumgar Spell-Eater
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Soul of the Harvest
• 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1 Stratus Dancer
• 1 Stubborn Denial
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Sylvan Ranger
• 1 Taiga
• 1 Temur Sabertooth
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Tidespout Tyrant
• 1 Tishana, Voice of Thunder
• 1 Tropical Island
• 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1 Volcanic Island
• 1 Willbender
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wood Elves
• 1 Woodland Bellower
• 1 Yavimaya Granger