Animar, Soul of Elements by DoodeMangBro

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

Animar, Soul of Elements commands a fast Temur creature storm and combo strategy that leverages cost reduction to deploy massive boards and execute deterministic win lines. The deck relies on early mana dorks to cast Animar on Turn 2, rapidly growing it with low-cost utility creatures. Once Animar reaches four +1/+1 counters, Ancestral Statue costs zero mana, self-bouncing infinitely to create an arbitrarily large commander and generate unbounded enters-the-battlefield triggers. This loop closes games on the same turn using Impact Tremors, an infinitely large Walking Ballista, or by drawing the entire deck through engines like Beast Whisperer. Supported by Eldrazi titans, cascade bombs, and counter-protection spells, the deck also provides a potent stompy backup plan if the primary combo is disrupted. Inherent protection from white and black shields Animar from premier removal, ensuring resilient threat development.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Equilibrium
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gaea's Gift
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Primordial Sage
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shivan Devastator
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Walking Ballista