New Untitled Deck by Will1357z

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur stompy strategy helmed by Animar, Soul of Elements, focusing on +1/+1 counter synergies and scaling X-cost Hydras. The primary plan accelerates Animar onto the battlefield on Turn 3 using low-cost mana ramp like Utopia Sprawl, Sol Ring, and Incubation Druid. Once deployed, casting low-cost creatures and counter enhancers quickly stacks +1/+1 counters onto Animar. This drastically reduces the generic mana costs of subsequent creature spells, enabling the deck to cast massive threats such as Primordial Hydra, Genesis Hydra, and Shivan Devastator for negligible mana investment. Damage doublers and counter enhancers like Branching Evolution and Kami of Whispered Hopes accelerate power output, while evasion enablers like Herald of Secret Streams ensure combat damage bypasses blockers. While the deck lacks competitive infinite combos and creature tutors, its high functional redundancy, resilient commander protection, and high-velocity beatdown allow it to pressure life totals and close games by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Apocalypse Hydra
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bard Class
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Broodguard Elite
  • 1 Broodlord
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Devoted Druid
  • 1 Double Major
  • 1 Drix Fatemaker
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Gargos, Vicious Watcher
  • 1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Grow from the Ashes
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hazardous Blast
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Increasing Savagery
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Knockout Maneuver
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Lull
  • 1 Lux Artillery
  • 1 Magus Lucea Kane
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 New Horizons
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Orochi Merge-Keeper
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quilled Greatwurm
  • 1 Quirion Beastcaller
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Ram Through
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Season of Gathering
  • 1 Shivan Devastator
  • 1 Simian Simulacrum
  • 1 Slippery Bogle
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steelbane Hydra
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tangled Islet
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Vorinclex // The Grand Evolution
  • 1 Wildwood Scourge
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor