+1s into Free Creatures by user6062206

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur stompy strategy led by Animar, Soul of Elements. The game plan focuses on casting low-cost mana dorks and ramp spells to deploy Animar on Turn 2 or 3. Once on the battlefield, casting additional creature spells places +1/+1 counters on Animar, rapidly reducing the generic mana costs of subsequent creature spells. The deck amplifies this counter generation using enhancers like Hardened Scales and Branching Evolution. By Turn 5, the cost reduction enables explosive turns where the deck casts high-mana threats including Kalonian Hydra, Maelstrom Wanderer, and giant Eldrazi like Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre and Void Winnower for minimal mana. It protects its board state with spells like Heroic Intervention and native protection from white and black, ultimately closing the game through unblockable or trample combat damage by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 All Will Be One
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Artisan of Kozilek
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Benevolent Hydra
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Cloud of Faeries
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Explore
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fierce Empath
• 7 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Frontier Bivouac
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Growth Curve
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Herald of Secret Streams
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Hydra's Growth
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 3 Island
• 1 Kalonian Hydra
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Ketria Triome
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1 Mistrise Village
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Negate
• 1 Nulldrifter
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1 Peregrine Drake
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Rockfall Vale
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Shivan Devastator
• 1 Simic Ascendancy
• 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
• 1 Slip Out the Back
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Stonecoil Serpent
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Curiosity
• 1 Talisman of Impulse
• 1 Temple of Abandon
• 1 Temple of Epiphany
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Temur Ascendancy
• 1 Temur Battlecrier
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1 Up the Beanstalk
• 1 Void Winnower
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Zoanthrope