Animar by bear5134

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This is a Animar, Soul of Elements creature-combo deck. Its main line builds three counters on Animar, Soul of Elements, deploys Agate Instigator, and then casts Ancestral Statue. The Statue returns itself to hand, becomes cheaper after every cast, and causes unlimited entry triggers. Agate Instigator turns those triggers into lethal damage to each opponent. The deck has meaningful access through Fauna Shaman, Eldritch Evolution, Birthing Pod, Prime Speaker Vannifar, and artifact tutors, but those tools have costs and usually cover only one missing role at a time. Mana is above average because Animar, Soul of Elements reduces creature costs and the deck includes several rocks, although many lands enter tapped. Interaction and protection are useful but incomplete. The deck can win immediately after assembling the loop, usually around turn 6 in ordinary play, but its setup remains vulnerable to removal, counterspells, exile, sacrifice, and bounce.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Angry Rabble
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Annul
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Break Out
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chrome Dome
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conqueror's Flail
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Earth's Mightiest Heroes
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Essence Capture
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Flatline
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Grindstone
  • 1 Guardians of Koilos
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hex Magic
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
  • 1 Leyline of Lifeforce
  • 1 Lunar Insight
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Mass Hysteria
  • 1 Mm'menon, the Right Hand
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 1 Moss Diamond
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Myr Welder
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Prime Speaker Vannifar
  • 1 Prowling Serpopard
  • 1 Rapid Augmenter
  • 1 Ravenous Robots
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Starfield Vocalist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Super-Adaptoid
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Tender Wildguide
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Ooze
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Transmutation Font
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witty Roastmaster