Animar by user7938441

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Animar, Soul of Elements combo-tempo deck. The primary plan is to land Animar by turn two or three, grow its +1/+1 counter count by casting cheap creatures, then use Ancestral Statue to loop casts, making Animar arbitrarily large and triggering Impact Tremors/Terror of the Peaks or fueling an enormous Walking Ballista. Secondary paths include Kiki-Jiki untapper combos, Hullbreaker Horror mana loops, and an extra-combat package around Aggravated Assault with treasure dragons. The commander is the main engine, but the deck keeps a beatdown fallback with Vigor, Unnatural Growth, and large dragons. There is no hidden commander; the build is explicitly centered on Animar's cost-reduction combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Ancient Bronze Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Avatar Roku, Firebender
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corridor Monitor
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deceiver Exarch
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Oko, Thief of Crowns
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Palinchron
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Pestermite
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Silver Shroud Costume
  • 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
  • 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Super State
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tangle
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Tidespout Tyrant
  • 1 Treachery
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vigor
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow
  • 1 You Find Some Prisoners
  • 1 Zealous Conscripts