Animar by user4992873

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Animar, Soul of Elements is the single face of the deck and its fulcrum: it reduces creature costs, grows on every creature cast, and gives the entire creature suite protection from white and black. The primary plan is a creature-cast combo-stack +1/+1 counters on Animar, then bounce Ancestral Statue to hand and recast it indefinitely, converting infinite casts or counter triggers through All Will Be One or Purphoros. Secondary paths use Palinchron/Peregrine Drake plus Temur Sabertooth for infinite mana and Walking Ballista, or finish through combat with Pathbreaker Ibex, Ulamog, and Kozilek. There is no hidden commander; Pir is only a counter amplifier. Animar's cost-reduction and counter engine define every line.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alchemist's Refuge
• 1 All Will Be One
• 1 Ancestral Statue
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Beastcaller Savant
• 1 Benevolent Hydra
• 1 Biophagus
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Cloudstone Curio
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Elven Chorus
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Enduring Vitality
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Fiery Islet
• 1 Forbidden Orchard
• 2 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Gilded Drake
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Glimpse of Nature
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Imperial Recruiter
• 1 Kessig Wolf Run
• 1 Ketria Triome
• 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Man-o'-War
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Mistrise Village
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mulldrifter
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1 Palinchron
• 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1 Peregrine Drake
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1 Pir, Imaginative Rascal
• 1 Pollywog Prodigy
• 1 Prowling Serpopard
• 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Shrieking Drake
• 1 Spellseeker
• 1 Spellskite
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Strip Mine
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Survival of the Fittest
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Sylvan Tutor
• 1 Taiga
• 1 Temur Sabertooth
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 Thornspire Verge
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
• 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1 Void Winnower
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
• 1 Willowrush Verge
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Worldly Tutor