Animar by user8833896

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is an Animar, Soul of Elements creature combo and midrange beatdown list designed to leverage cost reduction into overwhelming board presence. The primary strategy revolves around casting Animar on Turn 3, followed by a flurry of low-cost utility creatures to rapidly build +1/+1 counters. Each counter reduces generic creature mana costs, allowing the deck to deploy massive threats like Triplicate Titan, Hullbreaker Horror, and scalable Hydras at extreme discounts. The deck features a compact two-card infinite combo with Ancestral Statue, which casts for free and bounces itself infinitely once Animar has four counters. Card draw engines such as Beast Whisperer and Guardian Project sustain creature chains, while Animar's innate protection from white and black defends it from premier targeted removal. The deck lacks fast mana and dedicated creature tutors, relying instead on raw card draw velocity and resilient board presence to eliminate opponents over two to three combat cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Animation Module
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deepwood Denizen
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Farseek
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Izzet Guildgate
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
  • 1 Masked Admirers
  • 1 Meditation Pools
  • 1 Memnarch
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mishra's Self-Replicator
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Monoskelion
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Myr Retriever
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Savageborn Hydra
  • 1 Scuttlemutt
  • 1 Shapers of Nature
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spectral Sailor
  • 1 Spell Rupture
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tangled Islet
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Thopter Assembly
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Thrashing Brontodon
  • 1 Triplicate Titan
  • 1 Ulamog's Dreadsire
  • 1 Urban Evolution
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vivien, Arkbow Ranger
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Wren's Run Hydra