Animar by user5661314

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Animar, Soul of Elements is a creature-combo/tempo deck that turns cheap creature casts into a growing discount and +1/+1 counter pile. The primary plan is to play Animar on turn three, chain small creatures into draw engines, and use landfall and counter multipliers to build a wide board. Craterhoof Behemoth or Finale of Devastation ends the game with trample; Etali and direct counter-swing threats are secondary paths. The commander is the cost-reduction engine, while landfall payoffs (Avenger, Scute Swarm, Rampaging Baloths) and draw-on-cast creatures keep the hand full. Without Animar the deck still ramps and wins later, so it is a normal commander-dependent midrange deck rather than a tight combo shell.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Apex Devastator
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archdruid's Charm
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Ashroot Animist
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Biophagus
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
• 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consecrated Sphinx
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Emerald Medallion
• 1 Enduring Vitality
• 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Evolution Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 6 Forest
• 1 Forge of Heroes
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Fyndhorn Elves
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hydroid Krasis
• 1 Incubation Druid
• 1 Inspiring Call
• 5 Island
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Ketria Triome
• 1 Kodama of the East Tree
• 1 Kodama of the West Tree
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mossborn Hydra
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Paradise Druid
• 1 Path of Discovery
• 1 Poison Dart Frog
• 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
• 1 Rampaging Baloths
• 1 Ramunap Excavator
• 1 Reality Shift
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Riverpyre Verge
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sazh Katzroy
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Scute Swarm
• 1 Sin, Unending Cataclysm
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul of the Harvest
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Temur Battlecrier
• 1 Terastodon
• 1 The Earth Crystal
• 1 Thornspire Verge
• 1 Thranduil's Company
• 1 Through the Forest Gate
• 1 Thunderfoot Baloth
• 1 Tromell, Seymour's Butler
• 1 Vigor
• 1 Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1 Willowrush Verge
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth