Animar, Soul of Elements by SpaceWorm

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This is a fast creature-combo build helmed by Animar, Soul of Elements, built to exploit Animar's cost-reduction engine to chain cheap creatures into an infinite loop. The primary kill is the classic Ancestral Statue loop: once Animar carries four +1/+1 counters, the Statue is free, bounces itself, and each recast grows Animar while Purphoros, God of the Forge or Walking Ballista converts the loop into a table kill. A dense package of fast mana (Lotus Petal, Chrome Mox, Simian Spirit Guide, Elvish Spirit Guide, Gaea's Cradle) plus tutors (Worldly Tutor, Gamble, Defense of the Heart) accelerates assembly. Secondary lines include Hullbreaker Horror bounce loops, Etali, Primal Conqueror value, and oversized hydra combat via Goldvein Hydra and Shivan Devastator. The deck is a goodstuff-creature pile whose combos live mostly in the 99, with Animar as an accelerant rather than a strict requirement.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1 Ancestral Statue
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Augur of Autumn
• 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Benevolent Hydra
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Chancla relámpago
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concordant Crossroads
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Copperline Gorge
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Defense of the Heart
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1 Endurance
• 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Force of Will
• 3 Forest
• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Goldspan Dragon
• 1 Goldvein Hydra
• 1 Halana and Alena, Partners
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 2 Island
• 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Mindbreak Trap
• 1 Mistrise Village
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Mulldrifter
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Shivan Devastator
• 1 Simian Spirit Guide
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spellseeker
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Strength of Will
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Sylvan Tutor
• 1 Taiga
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Impulse
• 1 Temur Battlecrier
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Party Tree
• 1 Tinder Wall
• 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1 Transit Mage
• 1 Tropical Island
• 1 Unsubstantiate
• 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1 Void Winnower
• 1 Volcanic Island
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
• 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
• 1 Wood Elves
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth