Animar by user9389691

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Animar is both the engine and the main finisher. The deck ramps into Animar by turn 3, grows it with cheap creatures and counter support, then uses Ancestral Statue to make it infinitely large or switches to a cascade/annihilator plan with Maelstrom Wanderer, Apex Devastator, Etali, and Eldrazi. Beast Whisperer and Soul of the Harvest turn creature casts into extra cards, while Brawn and Wonder give trample and flying. There is no true hidden commander; Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty acts as a secondary cascade engine in the 99. Secondary pressure comes from hasted annihilator attacks and large trampling hydras.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetheric Amplifier
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Annoyed Altisaur
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Bane of Bala Ged
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Bigger on the Inside
  • 1 Bloodbraid Elf
  • 1 Brawn
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Creative Technique
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 16 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydra's Growth
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
  • 1 Invigorating Surge
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Maelstrom Colossus
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Migration Path
  • 1 Monstrous Vortex
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Profaner of the Dead
  • 1 Quandrix, the Proof
  • 1 Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
  • 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restorative Technique
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakashima's Protege
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Trumpeting Carnosaur
  • 1 Whisperer of the Wilds
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Zoanthrope