amnimar by user6122146

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 84

Deck overview

This competitive Commander deck is built around Animar, Soul of Elements as an explosive mana engine and combo centerpiece. The deck aims to deploy Animar on Turn 2 using efficient mana dorks and fast artifacts. On Turn 3, it rapidly chains low-cost creatures and bounce effects like Shrieking Drake to build four +1/+1 counters on Animar. Once Animar reduces generic costs by four, Ancestral Statue casts for free and bounces itself infinitely. This loop gives Animar arbitrarily high power and generates infinite creature cast triggers. The deck then tutors and casts Walking Ballista for zero mana with an arbitrarily high X value to ping the entire table for lethal damage. Dense creature tutoring via Imperial Recruiter, Transit Mage, and Survival of the Fittest guarantees consistent access. Robust protection from free countermagic, Veil of Summer, and Deflecting Swat shields the win attempt from disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 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 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clement, the Worrywort
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Deceiver Exarch
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
  • 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 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Oblivion Sower
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Radagast the Brown
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 1 Sicarian Infiltrator
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sowing Mycospawn
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Tishana, Voice of Thunder
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Transit Mage
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vibrance
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast