Ultimar & The Statue of Overcompesnation by lunk

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered combo build centered around Animar, Soul of Elements. The primary strategy accelerates Animar onto the battlefield on Turn 2, stacks +1/+1 counters using low-cost creatures and counter doublers, and quickly tutors for Ancestral Statue. Once Animar holds four counters, Ancestral Statue costs zero mana and continuously bounces itself, generating an infinitely large commander and unlimited enter-the-battlefield triggers. The deck converts this loop into an immediate Turn 4 victory through Walking Ballista or burn pieces like Purphoros, God of the Forge and Impact Tremors. Animar's built-in protection from white and black shields it from premier spot removal, while free counterspells like Deflecting Swat and uncounterable enablers like Prowling Serpopard defend the combo turns. Secondary win lines through Palinchron and Cloudstone Curio ensure robust backup paths.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Ancestral Statue
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Biophagus
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Chord of Calling
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Cloud of Faeries
• 1 Cloudstone Curio
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commercial District
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Curse-Marred Demon
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Fierce Empath
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Forbidden Orchard
• 1 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Formidable Speaker
• 1 Frenzied Baloth
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Green Sun's Zenith
• 1 Grinning Ignus
• 1 Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Hedge Maze
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 High Fae Trickster
• 1 Hydroid Krasis
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 1 Imperial Recruiter
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Ketria Triome
• 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1 Laboratory Maniac
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Man-o'-War
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Nature's Rhythm
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1 Palinchron
• 1 Peregrine Drake
• 1 Phantasmal Image
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1 Prowling Serpopard
• 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Riverpyre Verge
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Snap
• 1 Soul of the Harvest
• 1 Spellseeker
• 1 Spellskite
• 1 Starting Town
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Tam, Mindful First-Year
• 1 Terror of the Peaks
• 1 The Great Henge
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 Tower Winder
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Transit Mage
• 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
• 1 Veil of Summer
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Weftstalker Ardent
• 1 Wild Growth
• 1 Willowrush Verge
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Zoanthrope