03Animar Test by Luckyaiden9000

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 81

Deck overview

This competitive deck is built around Animar, Soul of Elements as an explosive creature-based storm and combo engine. It uses low-cost mana accelerants and one-mana creature ramp to cast Animar on Turn 1 or Turn 2. Once on the board, cheap utility creatures rapidly add +1/+1 counters to Animar, reducing the generic mana cost of future creature spells. The primary win route utilizes Ancestral Statue. When Animar has four or more counters, Ancestral Statue costs zero mana and bounces itself upon entry. This loop generates infinite cast triggers, infinite storm, and an arbitrarily large Animar. The deck finishes immediately on Turn 3 by casting Walking Ballista for zero mana with an arbitrarily large X value to ping all opponents to death, or via entry damage triggers from Molten Gatekeeper and Impact Tremors. Robust interaction, including free counterspells and anti-counter tech like Hexing Squelcher, shields the combo from opposing disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Neoform
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Once Upon a Time
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast