The big stuff by user4254327

Format: Commander

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a high-power Temur Animar, Soul of Elements creature storm deck that converts early dorks into a snowballing cost-reduction engine. Every creature cast grows Animar; every counter makes the next creature cheaper, until the deck is slamming haymakers and combo pieces for free. Primary wins are infinite-mana loops through Temur Sabertooth or Freed from the Real paired with untap dorks, converted into a Walking Ballista or Crackle with Power finish, backed by combat closers like Craterhoof Behemoth and Finale of Devastation. Cascade bombs (Apex Devastator, Maelstrom Wanderer) and annihilator Eldrazi provide redundant closing power. Animar is the accelerator, not a hard lock-piece: the 99 contains fully independent combo lines, dense creature tutors, and premium draw, so the deck still executes when the commander is answered.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Argonath, Pillars of the Kings
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beastcaller Savant
  • 1 Biophagus
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Canopy Gargantuan
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Eldrazi Temple
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Fangorn Forest
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Henneth Annûn
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroid Krasis
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nulldrifter
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Rattleclaw Mystic
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul of the Harvest
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 Temur Sabertooth
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Valley of Gorgoroth
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast