Animar- Giants by user9238012

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck merges the kindred synergy of the Giant creature type with the explosive mana reduction of Animar, Soul of Elements. The game plan establishes early mana acceleration to deploy Animar on Turn 3, subsequently chaining high-stat Giants whose steep casting costs are mitigated by Animar's counters alongside tribal aids such as Urza's Incubator and Stinkdrinker Daredevil. Card draw engines keyed to high power, including Temur Ascendancy, Garruk's Uprising, and Up the Beanstalk, ensure hand replenishment as massive threats enter the battlefield. While lacking infinite combos, the deck achieves decisive battlefield dominance between Turns 6 and 8 by stacking asymmetric sweepers like Cyclone Summoner and Battle of Frost and Fire before trampling through opponents with Borderland Behemoth, Earthshaker Giant, and Calamity Bearer. Its primary weaknesses are high dependence on combat damage and vulnerability to well-timed non-targeted board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aegar, the Freezing Flame
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basalt Ravager
  • 1 Battle of Frost and Fire
  • 1 Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bonecrusher Giant // Stomp
  • 1 Borderland Behemoth
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Calamity Bearer
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crush Underfoot
  • 1 Crystalline Giant
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclone Summoner
  • 1 Earthshaker Giant
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fall of the Hammer
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fire Giant's Fury
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Frost Titan
  • 1 Galvanic Giant // Storm Reading
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Giant Harbinger
  • 1 Giant's Grasp
  • 1 Glimpse the Cosmos
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Hall of Storm Giants
  • 1 Hamletback Goliath
  • 1 Hammerfist Giant
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Inferno Titan
  • 1 Invasion of the Giants
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Ondu Giant
  • 1 Outland Colossus
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Quakebringer
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squash
  • 1 Stinkdrinker Daredevil
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stormkeld Vanguard // Bear Down
  • 1 Sunder Shaman
  • 1 Sunrise Sovereign
  • 1 Surtland Elementalist
  • 1 Surtland Flinger
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tectonic Giant
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Temple of Mystery
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
  • 1 Thundercloud Shaman
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Up the Beanstalk
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig