Animar, Soul of Elements by SyndromeOfaDown

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck uses Animar, Soul of Elements as an explosive creature-cost reducer and +1/+1 counter engine. The primary strategy ramps out Animar on Turn 2 or 3, rapidly grows Animar with low-cost creatures and counter doublers, and leverages creature-triggered card draw to chain multiple massive threats in a single turn. Cards like Beast Whisperer, Guardian Project, and Temur Ascendancy refill the hand as creatures are cast, while hydras such as Kalonian Hydra, Primordial Hydra, and Apex Devastator quickly overwhelm opposing life totals. Evasion is supplied by Herald of Secret Streams, Garruk's Uprising, and Craterhoof Behemoth to close out the table through combat damage. The deck excels in raw card flow and board presence, but it dedicates minimal slots to stack interaction or instant-speed removal, leaving it vulnerable to mass board wipes and targeted red or blue removal before combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Apex Devastator
• 1 Basking Broodscale
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Benevolent Hydra
• 1 Big Mother Mouser
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
• 1 Broodlord
• 1 Canopy Gargantuan
• 1 Cloud of Faeries
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Deepglow Skate
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Duskshell Crawler
• 1 Equilibrium
• 1 Eshki, Temur's Roar
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Fierce Empath
• 13 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Gaea's Gift
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Genesis Hydra
• 1 Goldvein Hydra
• 1 Growth Curve
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Hangarback Walker
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Herald of Secret Streams
• 1 Hooded Hydra
• 1 Invigorating Surge
• 4 Island
• 1 Kalonian Hydra
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Kodama of the West Tree
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Managorger Hydra
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Mulldrifter
• 1 Nulldrifter
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Peregrine Drake
• 1 Primordial Hydra
• 1 Quilled Greatwurm
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1 Shivan Devastator
• 1 Sin, Unending Cataclysm
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solidarity of Heroes
• 1 Soul of the Harvest
• 1 Sphere Grid
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Sporocyst
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Stonecoil Serpent
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1 Temur Ascendancy
• 1 Termagant Swarm
• 1 The Earth Crystal
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1 Unbound Flourishing
• 1 Up the Beanstalk
• 1 Vigor
• 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1 Voracious Hydra
• 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
• 1 Warden of the Grove
• 1 Zoanthrope