Copy of - Animar Deck 2 by vaderlikesribeye

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur Creature Storm and combo-stompy build helmed by Animar, Soul of Elements. The primary game plan revolves around accelerating Animar onto the battlefield on Turn 2 or Turn 3, then chaining low-cost creature spells to accumulate +1/+1 counters rapidly. As Animar grows, creature costs are discounted significantly, turning mid-range and high-cost creatures into cheap or free spells. Once Animar reaches 4 counters, the deck can execute an infinite storm loop using Ancestral Statue, repeatedly casting and self-bouncing the Golem for zero mana. Combined with draw engines like Beast Whisperer and Temur Ascendancy, the deck draws its entire library to close the game immediately via Chandra's Ignition or an overwhelming hasty combat step. Even without the infinite combo, the deck transitions smoothly into a massive creature beatdown plan powered by Maelstrom Wanderer, Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant, and Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Archetype of Aggression
  • 1 Atalan Jackal
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastcaller Savant
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bountiful Landscape
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Ruin
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Dormant Grove // Gnarled Grovestrider
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eshki, Temur's Roar
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Foreboding Statue // Forsaken Thresher
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Gwenna, Eyes of Gaea
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Ilysian Caryatid
  • 1 Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty
  • 1 Inga and Esika
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pir, Imaginative Rascal
  • 1 Primordial Sage
  • 1 Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Tidespout Tyrant
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Trygon Predator
  • 1 Tuktuk Rubblefort
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Zimone, Paradox Sculptor
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus