big by user4537934

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur creature stompy deck commanded by Animar, Soul of Elements. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana on Turn 2, casting Animar on Turn 3, and rapidly deploying creatures to accumulate +1/+1 counters. Each counter reduces the generic mana cost of future creature spells, enabling the deck to cast massive Hydras, Tyranids, and Eldrazi for negligible mana. Card draw engines like Garruk's Uprising, Elemental Bond, and Soul of the Harvest turn every creature cast into fresh cards, preventing the deck from running out of gas. Built-in protection from white and black helps Animar evade common spot removal spells. The deck wins by overwhelming opponents with enormous trampling creatures, doubled counters from Kalonian Hydra, and evasion granted by Winged Hive Tyrant. While it lacks instant-speed interaction and countermagic, its sheer creature velocity and board presence exert relentless combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Arwen, Weaver of Hope
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Briar Hydra
  • 1 Broodguard Elite
  • 1 Broodlord
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copper Myr
  • 1 Cyclops of Eternal Fury
  • 1 Defiler of Vigor
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drix Fatemaker
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elrond of the White Council
  • 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolutionary Leap
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Explorer's Cache
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Growth Curve
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Invigorating Hot Spring
  • 1 Iron Myr
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Lifeblood Hydra
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Magus of the Order
  • 1 Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Myr Convert
  • 1 Myr Kinsmith
  • 1 Nullstone Gargoyle
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Roil
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Pictures of Spider-Man
  • 1 Primal Empathy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Red XIII, Proud Warrior
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Savageborn Hydra
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shivan Devastator
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tervigon
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Threats Undetected
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Tyranid Prime
  • 1 Tyrant Guard
  • 1 Unbound Flourishing
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Urabrask, Heretic Praetor
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Wildgrowth Archaic
  • 1 Wildwood Scourge
  • 1 Winged Hive Tyrant
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 You Meet in a Tavern