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Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a +1/+1 counter and proliferate deck helmed by Animar, Soul of Elements. The core strategy uses Animar's cost reduction to deploy creature spells cheaply, while a dense suite of counter doublers (Doubling Season, Branching Evolution, Hardened Scales, Innkeeper's Talent) and proliferate effects (Evolution Sage, Flux Channeler, Inexorable Tide, Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus) rapidly inflate creature sizes. Primary wins come from combat damage: Herald of Secret Streams makes creatures with +1/+1 counters unblockable, and huge hydras (Hydroid Krasis, Goldvein Hydra, Mossborn Hydra) or value threats like Apex Devastator close the game. The deck also has two potential infinite combo lines (involving Kami of Whispered Hopes plus a counter doubler and a proliferate loop) that can generate infinite mana or counters, though these require setup. Backup plans include card advantage engines (Rhystic Study, Temur Ascendancy) and a handful of interaction pieces to protect the board.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Agate Instigator
• 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
• 1 Apex Devastator
• 1 Arbor Elf
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bane of Progress
• 1 Beastcaller Savant
• 1 Benevolent Hydra
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contagion Clasp
• 1 Contaminant Grafter
• 1 Contentious Plan
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Dack's Duplicate
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Doubling Season
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Ezuri, Stalker of Spheres
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flux Channeler
• 1 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Gemstone Caverns
• 1 Goldvein Hydra
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Herald of Secret Streams
• 1 High Score
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Hydra's Growth
• 1 Hydroid Krasis
• 1 Imperial Recruiter
• 1 Inexorable Tide
• 1 Innkeeper's Talent
• 1 Into the Roil
• 1 Invigorating Surge
• 1 Island
• 1 Kalonian Hydra
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Ketria Triome
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Lulu, Stern Guardian
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mossborn Hydra
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Park Heights Maverick
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Primordial Sage
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Rhythm of the Wild
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Sear
• 1 Search for the Frozen Esper
• 1 Shivan Devastator
• 1 Slippery Bogbonder
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Solidarity of Heroes
• 1 Spellskite
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Stonecoil Serpent
• 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1 Taiga
• 1 Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus
• 1 Temur Ascendancy
• 1 Tester of the Tangential
• 1 Thrummingbird
• 1 Tromell, Seymour's Butler
• 1 Tropical Island
• 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1 Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1 Volcanic Island
• 1 Volcano of Roku's Island
• 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 You Find Some Prisoners