XXXAnimarcion by Inguru

Format: Commander

Creator: Inguru

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur stompy strategy helmed by Animar, Soul of Elements, built to exploit +1/+1 counters and generic mana cost reduction to cast massive X-cost Hydras and high-mana value beaters at a fraction of their cost. The early game establishes color fixing and deploys Animar by Turn 3. In the mid-game, sequential creature drops grow Animar rapidly, turning spells like Hydroid Krasis, Apex Devastator, and Goldvein Hydra into undercosted powerhouses. The deck wins primarily through overwhelming combat damage, supported by evasion enablers such as Herald of Secret Streams, trample granters, and power multipliers like Overwhelming Stampede. Because it eschews infinite bounce loops and dedicated tutors, it functions as an honest, proactive midrange deck that relies on steady creature velocity, card-drawing permanents, and inherent protection from white and black removal to run over opposing defenses.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Refuge
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Apocalypse Hydra
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Augur of Autumn
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eshki, Temur's Roar
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Genesis Hydra
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydra's Growth
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Ivy Dancer
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karlach, Fury of Avernus
  • 1 Kinetic Ooze
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lukka, Coppercoat Outcast
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Magus Lucea Kane
  • 1 Marina Vendrell's Grimoire
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 6 Mountain
  • 2 Neverwinter Hydra
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Poison Dart Frog
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby, Daring Tracker
  • 1 Savageborn Hydra
  • 1 Shivan Devastator
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solidarity of Heroes
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Goose Mother
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Trygon Prime
  • 1 Twenty-Toed Toad
  • 1 Ureni, the Song Unending
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Winged Hive Tyrant
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor