Animar(6) by Chaos_Monarch2559

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur +1/+1 counters and stompy strategy led by Animar, Soul of Elements. The primary game plan revolves around casting Animar on Turn 3, rapidly accumulating +1/+1 counters via low-cost creature casts, and leveraging Animar's generic mana cost reduction to deploy high-cost Tyranids, Hydras, and Praetors well ahead of curve. The deck aims to overwhelm opponents through massive combat damage enhanced by trample, evasion enablers like Champion of Lambholt and Winged Hive Tyrant, and damage multipliers like Gratuitous Violence and Uncivil Unrest. Additionally, the deck contains an untutored two-card infinite burn combo with All Will Be One and The Red Terror. While the deck features explosive creature velocity and built-in protection from white and black on its commander, it relies entirely on natural draws due to a complete lack of nonland tutors. It is susceptible to non-black/non-white board sweepers and lacks dense instant-speed interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bred for the Hunt
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fathom Mage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Gargoyle Flock
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hierophant Bio-Titan
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Hydra's Growth
  • 1 Inscription of Abundance
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Guildgate
  • 1 Kazandu Refuge
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lorescale Coatl
  • 1 Loyal Guardian
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Master Biomancer
  • 1 Molten Tributary
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Murkfiend Liege
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Old One Eye
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Screamer-Killer
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Servant of the Scale
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Termagant Swarm
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tervigon
  • 1 The Red Terror
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Tyranid Prime
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Venomthrope
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Wildwood Scourge
  • 1 Winged Hive Tyrant
  • 1 Wood Elves