[Archive] The Sloth by jeffhanrahan

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Animar, Soul of Elements leads a Temur creature-combo deck built around accumulating +1/+1 counters to discount creature spells, then chaining cheap creatures into infinite loops. The primary win is the Ancestral Statue loop - bouncing and recasting Animar to make the Golem free, triggering Purphoros, God of the Forge for infinite damage or Beast Whisperer to draw the deck. Backup lines include Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker with Pestermite or Phantasmal Image, Aggravated Assault with Hellkite Charger or Moraug, Fury of Akoum for infinite combats, and Craterhoof Behemoth or Chandra's Ignition as combat finishers. A dense tutor package (Survival of the Fittest, Green Sun's Zenith, Natural Order, Finale of Devastation, Worldly Tutor, Sylvan Tutor) plus a swarm of mana dorks and fast mana (Sol Ring, Chrome Mox, Mox Diamond, Gaea's Cradle) make the deck fast and consistent, pivoting between infinite mana, infinite combats, and massive combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aggravated Assault
• 1 Akroma's Memorial
• 1 Ancestral Statue
• 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Bear Umbra
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
• 1 Blightsteel Colossus
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Chandra's Ignition
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Dryad Arbor
• 1 Earthcraft
• 1 Enduring Vitality
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 1 Fierce Empath
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 5 Forest
• 1 Formidable Speaker
• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Green Sun's Zenith
• 1 Hellkite Charger
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Imperial Recruiter
• 4 Island
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Mox Diamond
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Natural Order
• 1 Noxious Revival
• 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1 Ogre Battledriver
• 1 Old Gnawbone
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1 Pestermite
• 1 Phantasmal Image
• 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Seedborn Muse
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spellseeker
• 1 Spellskite
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Squirrel Nest
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1 Survival of the Fittest
• 1 Sylvan Tutor
• 1 Taiga
• 1 Temur Sabertooth
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 The Reaver Cleaver
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Tropical Island
• 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1 Void Winnower
• 1 Volcanic Island
• 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth