Animar, Soul of Elements by Konvikt

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 82

Deck overview

This competitive Commander list is built around Animar, Soul of Elements as an explosive cost-reduction engine and combo outlet. The deck aims to accelerate into a Turn 2 Animar using efficient mana dorks and fast artifacts, followed by a flurry of cheap creatures and 0-CMC Kobolds on Turn 3 to build +1/+1 counters rapidly. Once Animar reaches four counters, the deck tutors and casts Ancestral Statue for zero mana, establishing an infinite self-bounce loop. This loop grants Animar arbitrarily high power and generates unlimited creature cast triggers, which translates directly into a same-turn table kill via Walking Ballista or Agate Instigator. Defensively, the deck protects its combo using premier free counterspells like Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting Swat, and Force of Will, alongside creature-based silence effects such as Allosaurus Shepherd. With redundant tutors and secondary Cloudstone Curio bounce lines, the list executes with remarkable speed and consistency.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Charming Scoundrel
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crimson Kobolds
  • 1 Crookshank Kobolds
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kobolds of Kher Keep
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Myr Scrapling
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Orcish Lumberjack
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Radagast the Brown
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sowing Mycospawn
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 1 Sunshower Druid
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
  • 1 Transit Mage
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wild Cantor
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth