2026 Animar by FaithfulFailure

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Animar is a combo-shell Commander deck that pairs a dense fast-mana suite with a deep tutor package to land the Ancestral Statue loop. Casting ordinary cheap creatures builds +1/+1 counters on Animar until Statue costs zero; Statue then bounces itself repeatedly, adding infinite counters and infinite creature casts. Walking Ballista, tutored or drawn, is cast with a massive X and snipes the table. A second, commander-independent channel uses Hullbreaker Horror with Sol Ring and Mox Amber to generate infinite mana. The list also carries a full free-countermagic package and redundant creature tutors, with a clean three-color mana base built on duals, fetches, and acceleration.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Neoform
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shield-Wall Sentinel
  • 1 Signal the Clans
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sowing Mycospawn
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Transit Mage
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vibrance
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Wild Cantor
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor