Alaska by LittleOwl

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a creature-combat Animar deck built around casting a critical mass of Alaskan-themed beasts-elk, bears, wolves, birds, and whales-to grow Animar and reduce the cost of future creature spells. The primary plan is to chain cheap creatures into deep discount and win through trampling combat or Animar commander damage; the secondary path is a counter-burn finish using All Will Be One with doubled +1/+1 counters. The commander is both cost-reducer and finisher; there is no true hidden commander, though Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle acts as a secondary mana engine/land. The mana base is the biggest flaw: only 11 lands and no basic lands leave many ramp spells unable to find targets.

Decklist (123 cards)

  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle
  • 1 Ascendant Packleader
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bellowing Elk
  • 1 Blizzard Strix
  • 1 Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Colossal Whale
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Court of Garenbrig
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawnglade Regent
  • 1 Dormant Grove // Gnarled Grovestrider
  • 1 Essence of the Wild
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Ethereal Elk
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fang of the Pack
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Forest Bear
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Giant Oyster
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Great Whale
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Growth Curve
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Harrier Strix
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Krosan Restorer
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Little Bear
  • 1 Lone Wolf
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Mist Raven
  • 1 Mother Bear
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Norwood Priestess
  • 1 Owlbear Cub
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plumecreed Escort
  • 1 Pyreheart Wolf
  • 1 Quirion Beastcaller
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 River Bear
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scurry of Squirrels
  • 1 Sea-Dasher Octopus
  • 1 Seedguide Ash
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Somberwald Sage
  • 1 Spectral Hunt-Caller
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Stampeding Elk Herd
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Strix Lookout
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunspine Lynx
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 Thieving Magpie
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Timber Wolves
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth
  • 1 Vexing Gull
  • 1 Vivien, Nature's Avenger
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zoologist