Animar Tyranid by user1380569

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur creature-midrange engine built around Animar, Soul of Elements and high-synergy Warhammer 40,000 Tyranid creatures. The primary strategy accelerates mana in the opening turns, lands Animar, and rapidly accumulates +1/+1 counters using low-cost creatures and counter doublers like Hardened Scales. As Animar grows, it provides massive generic cost reductions, enabling you to cast enormous Ravenous Tyranids like Exocrine, Zoanthrope, and Tervigon for minimal mana. Card advantage engines such as The Great Henge, Guardian Project, and Temur Ascendancy refill your hand while granting your army haste and trample. The deck closes games around Turn 7 by overrunning the table with massive flying and trampling combat damage, supported by on-board protection like Tyrant Guard and targeted countermagic to secure the finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aberrant
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arena
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Atalan Jackal
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bone Sabres
• 1 Bountiful Landscape
• 1 Bred for the Hunt
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Broodlord
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Clamavus
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Duskshell Crawler
• 1 Enduring Curiosity
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exocrine
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Explore
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farseek
• 6 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Game Trail
• 1 Genestealer Patriarch
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Gyre Sage
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Haruspex
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hormagaunt Horde
• 1 Hull Breach
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 4 Island
• 1 Ketria Triome
• 1 Loading Zone
• 1 Magus Lucea Kane
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Mawloc
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Opal Palace
• 1 Ouroboroid
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pensive Professor
• 1 Purestrain Genestealer
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Rishkar's Expertise
• 1 Screamer-Killer
• 1 Shadow in the Warp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphere Grid
• 1 Sporocyst
• 1 Starwinder
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Temur Ascendancy
• 1 Termagant Swarm
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Terrasymbiosis
• 1 Tervigon
• 1 The Earth Crystal
• 1 The Great Henge
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 The Swarmlord
• 1 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Topiary Lecturer
• 1 Tromell, Seymour's Butler
• 1 Trygon Predator
• 1 Trygon Prime
• 1 Tyranid Harridan
• 1 Tyranid Prime
• 1 Tyrant Guard
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Veil of Summer
• 1 Wildgrowth Archaic
• 1 Winged Hive Tyrant
• 1 Zoanthrope