Animar by MrAlarik

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 58

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Temur creature combo strategy built around Animar, Soul of Elements. It leverages a dense package of one-mana and two-mana accelerants to deploy Animar reliably on Turn 2. Once on the battlefield, casting cheap utility creatures rapidly adds +1/+1 counters to Animar, dramatically reducing the generic mana costs of subsequent creature spells. The primary path to victory is assembling Animar with four counters alongside Ancestral Statue, which can be repeatedly cast for zero mana to trigger infinite counters. This loop draws the library through creature-based draw engines or chains into an enters-the-battlefield tutor, deploying Walking Ballista with arbitrary +1/+1 counters to eliminate all opponents on the spot. Robust counter-protection and hexproof enablers ensure the combo resolves securely.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Benevolent Hydra
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Primordial Sage
  • 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast