Temur Big Boys by user2025233

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Temur creature-engine deck commanded by Animar, Soul of Elements. The strategy accelerates Animar onto the battlefield on Turn 2 using efficient 1-mana dorks and ramp spells. By casting low-cost utility creatures, Animar rapidly accumulates +1/+1 counters, drastically discounting generic mana costs across the deck. This discount fuels explosive turns where massive beaters like Apex Devastator, Vaultborn Tyrant, and Eldrazi titans are cast for pennies, chaining through the library alongside draw engines like Beast Whisperer and Guardian Project. The deck's primary compact win condition is Ancestral Statue, which costs zero generic mana once Animar has four counters, enabling an infinite cast and bounce loop that generates an infinitely large commander and unlimited enter-the-battlefield triggers. High-tempo protection spells like Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting Swat, and Sylvan Safekeeper safeguard Animar, ensuring lethal combat or Terror of the Peaks burn rapidly eliminates the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Broodguard Elite
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Defiler of Vigor
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Elusive Otter // Grove's Bounty
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Eshki, Temur's Roar
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 5 Island
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth