Animar by user44167

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

Animar, Soul of Elements is the mana engine and hidden commander of this Temur creature-combo deck. The primary plan fills the board with one-mana creatures, uses Animar's cost reduction to cast Ancestral Statue nearly free, and loops it to grow Animar indefinitely. Agate Instigator, Walking Ballista, or commander damage closes the game. A secondary line uses Hullbreaker Horror with Cloud of Faeries or Peregrine Drake plus Mox Amber to make mana and bounce permanents. Dense creature tutors, free counterspells, and flash enablers let the deck win at instant speed and protect the chain. There is no double-faced commander; the deck is built around Animar's casting trigger and cost reduction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bond Beetle
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Duskshell Crawler
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Manglehorn
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Myr Scrapling
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Radagast the Brown
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Runic Armasaur
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sowing Mycospawn
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunshower Druid
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
  • 1 The Cabbage Merchant
  • 1 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
  • 1 Tidal Barracuda
  • 1 Tinder Wall
  • 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Transit Mage
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor