New Untitled Deck by Sball

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Animar, Soul of Elements deck combines aggressive creature ramp, +1/+1 counter synergy, and a compact colorless combo finisher. Built around Animar's exponential cost-reduction ability, the deck curves out rapidly using 1-drop mana elves into a Turn 2 Animar. As cheap utility creatures enter the battlefield, Animar accumulates counters to dramatically discount generic mana costs. By Turn 4 or 5, the deck transitions into its primary win condition: casting Ancestral Statue with at least four counters on Animar. The Statue repeatedly bounces itself for zero mana, generating unbounded counters on Animar and enabling an arbitrarily large Walking Ballista to eliminate all three opponents in a single turn. Backed by innate protection from white and black, uncounterable effects, and efficient noncreature counterspells, the deck can also pivot into high-impact Eldrazi titans like Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger and Sire of Seven Deaths if combo lines are disrupted.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ajani's Anguish
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Cloudstone Curio
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consult the Star Charts
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emrakul, the World Anew
  • 1 Endless One
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fangs of Kalonia
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karlach, Fury of Avernus
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Ornithopter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Quantum Riddler
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Sakashima's Student
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Shivan Devastator
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The Lord of the Eagles
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Vaultborn Tyrant
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Weird Harvest
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast