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Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 79

Deck overview

This competitive combo deck centers on Animar, Soul of Elements to dramatically reduce creature casting costs and execute rapid, decisive combo finishes. Leveraging high-density fast mana and one-drop mana elves, the deck reliably establishes Animar on Turn 2. By Turn 3, Animar accumulates four +1/+1 counters through cheap creature casts, enabling a game-winning infinite loop with Ancestral Statue. Because Animar reduces generic mana costs by four, Ancestral Statue enters for zero mana and bounces itself, growing Animar to infinite power while generating infinite cast triggers. When combined with draw engines like Beast Whisperer or Dour Port-Mage, this loop draws the entire deck and deploys a lethal Walking Ballista for zero mana to eliminate all opponents on the same turn. The list is heavily insulated by free interaction (Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting Swat) and Animar's innate protection from white and black, creating a blistering and resilient cEDH-level threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Clement, the Worrywort
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dour Port-Mage
  • 1 Eldrazi Temple
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Eye of Ugin
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gilded Drake
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Reborn
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mind's Eye
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Primordial Sage
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Eldrazi
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor