Animar Aggressive by user5155164

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Creature Storm and Combo archetype helmed by Animar, Soul of Elements. The primary strategy accelerates Animar onto the battlefield on Turn 2 using efficient one-mana mana dorks. Once in play, casting low-cost utility and bounce creatures rapidly grows Animar's +1/+1 counters, heavily discounting subsequent creature spells. The primary win condition centers on casting Ancestral Statue with four counters on Animar, enabling an infinite casting loop for zero mana. Combined with draw engines like Beast Whisperer, Soul of the Harvest, or Temur Ascendancy, this loop draws the entire deck, generates infinite mana via Peregrine Drake and Temur Sabertooth, and finishes the table immediately with massive hasted combat damage or total board exile through Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger. Built-in protection from white and black shields Animar against the format's most common removal, making the deck exceptionally fast, resilient, and explosive.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Ainok Survivalist
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Apex Altisaur
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beastcaller Savant
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dream Stalker
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Innkeeper's Talent
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Man-o'-War
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Phyrexian Revoker
  • 1 Primordial Sage
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shrieking Drake
  • 1 Smirking Spelljacker
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
  • 1 Wild Cantor
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth