Animar, Soul of Eldrazi’s by user2271086

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Temur creature-centric engine piloted by Animar, Soul of Elements. The strategy centers on deploying Animar on Turn 3 and leveraging low-cost creature spells and +1/+1 counter synergies to rapidly reduce casting costs. As Animar grows, the deck chains massive apex threats—such as Void Winnower, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, and oversized Hydras—well ahead of curve. Card draw engines like Beast Whisperer, Elemental Bond, and Temur Ascendancy refill the hand with every creature cast, sustaining explosive turns. Built-in protection from white and black shields Animar from the format's most common spot removal, while efficient redirect and protection spells safeguard critical windows. The deck can close games via progressive trample and haste combat over two turns or achieve an immediate infinite-counter kill if it naturally draws Ancestral Statue.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aberrant
  • 1 Ainok Survivalist
  • 1 Ancestral Statue
  • 1 Ancient Stone Idol
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boltbender
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Broodguard Elite
  • 1 Brush Off
  • 1 Champion's Helm
  • 1 Chase Inspiration
  • 1 Cloud of Faeries
  • 1 Coastal Peak
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drix Fatemaker
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Eroded Canyon
  • 1 Eshki, Temur's Roar
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Gift of the Viper
  • 1 Glimpse of Nature
  • 1 Glorious Decay
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Herald of Ilharg
  • 1 Hideous Taskmaster
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Incubation Druid
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Kalonian Hydra
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lord of Change
  • 1 Los Diablos Missile Base
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nyxborn Hydra
  • 1 Ochre Jelly
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 Outcaster Trailblazer
  • 1 Paradox Gardens
  • 1 Pollenbright Druid
  • 1 Prime Speaker Zegana
  • 1 Sarkhan's Unsealing
  • 1 Savage Mansion
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shivan Devastator
  • 1 Smirking Spelljacker
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectacle Summit
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spider Manifestation
  • 1 Stark Industries
  • 1 Stonecoil Serpent
  • 1 Stratus Dancer
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Temperamental Oozewagg
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 Tishana, Voice of Thunder
  • 1 Training Regimen
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Voracious Hydra
  • 1 Warg Tactics
  • 1 Zoanthrope