Animar by user7464917

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a creature-centric value-combo deck helmed by Animar, Soul of Elements, built around two interlocking engines: +1/+1 counter synergy and infinite mana combo lines. The primary plan is to deploy Animar, accumulate counters by casting cheap creatures, then chain bounce effects (Ancestral Statue, Peregrine Drake) into infinite triggers from Purphoros, God of the Forge, Impact Tremors, or a Walking Ballista kill. Redundant draw spells like Beast Whisperer and Soul of the Harvest keep the hand full while the morph/dork package accelerates the cost-reduction snowball. The deck can win as early as turn 4-5 in a goldfish, but its light tutor suite and reliance on drawing into combo pieces keep it from cEDH consistency.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ainok Survivalist
• 1 Ancestral Statue
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Artisan of Kozilek
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Beastcaller Savant
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Cloud of Faeries
• 1 Coiling Oracle
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Den Protector
• 1 Dream Stalker
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Equilibrium
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fathom Seer
• 1 Fierce Empath
• 7 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Frilled Mystic
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 4 Island
• 1 Kalonian Hydra
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Reborn
• 1 Man-o'-War
• 1 Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Mulldrifter
• 1 Mystic Snake
• 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Peregrine Drake
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Primordial Sage
• 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Shared Summons
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Shrieking Drake
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Somberwald Sage
• 1 Soul of the Harvest
• 1 Spellskite
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Stratus Dancer
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Temur Ascendancy
• 1 Temur Sabertooth
• 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Willbender
• 1 Witty Roastmaster
• 1 Wood Elves
• 1 Yavimaya Coast