Animar by user7970774

Format: Commander

Creator: user7970774

Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This Commander deck is helmed by Animar, Soul of Elements, operating as an explosive creature-centric engine that converts creature casts into exponential mana discounts. The game plan focuses on deploying early mana acceleration to establish Animar on Turn 3, followed by a sequence of utility creatures on Turn 4 to accumulate +1/+1 counters. By Turn 6, Animar dramatically cheats the casting costs of high-impact threats, cascading through the library via Maelstrom Wanderer or Apex Devastator to establish an overwhelming board with haste and trample. The deck also includes a compact infinite-damage combo through Splinter Twin and Zealous Conscripts to end games out of nowhere. While Animar enjoys built-in protection from white and black removal, the deck's primary vulnerabilities lie in a near-total absence of instant-speed stack interaction and susceptibility to board sweepers like Blasphemous Act or Cyclonic Rift.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorbing Man and Titania
  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Animar, Soul of Elements
  • 1 Apex Devastator
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastcaller Savant
  • 1 Berserk
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodbraid Elf
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Cackling Counterpart
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Earth's Mightiest Heroes
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 1 Fierce Empath
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Progenitor Mimic
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Raphael, the Nightwatcher
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rhino, Terrible Trampler
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 See the Unwritten
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of the Dryads
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Splinter Twin
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stunt Double
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Surrak Dragonclaw
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Temur Ascendancy
  • 1 Temur Battlecrier
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Treachery
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Trygon Predator
  • 1 Undercover Operative
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wolverine, Fierce Fighter
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zealous Conscripts