Animar Ascendency w/o Ascendency

Commander / EDH* RUG (Temur)

hamberglar

Creature (39)

• 1x Alloy Myr
• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Oasis Ritualist
• 1x Opaline Unicorn
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Scuttlemutt
• 1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Trophy Mage
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Verdurous Gearhulk
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Woodland Bellower
• 1x Zealous Conscripts
• 1x Zhur-Taa Druid

Land (38)

• 1x Alchemist's Refuge
• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 3x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 2x Island
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Commander (1)

Artifact (7)

• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Paradox Engine
• 1x Sol Ring

Instant (7)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Sprout Swarm
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Aggravated Assault
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Temur Ascendancy

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Sylvan Awakening
• 1x Tooth and Nail

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This deck focuses around using Intruder Alarm, Paradox Engine, and Aggravated Assault to cast a lot of creatures, pump up Animar and cast even more creatures.

The main combos of the deck are:

The obvious dorks + intruder alarm + animar. Doesn't take more than a couple dorks in order to start feeling like every creature is free.

Animar + Ancestral Statue or Palinchron. Either of these cards, with a bit of mana to start with, can generate you relatively infinite counters with Animar (also a relatively infinitely big animar), and Palinchron can generate infinite mana as long as you can produce UUUU.

Soul of the Harvest or Primordial Sage + your normal setup. You can use the "intruder alarm" concept to draw a large number of cards this way. There's a solid chance you'll eventually whiff but 40 creatures is a lot.

This is version 1.0. I'm still looking for ways to utilize Animar's size to kill people. Not sure how. Also I'd like to find a card or two that I like that creates man lands. Awaken, as a mechanic, is stapled to some meh cards, and Living Plane is too $$$$. Edit: Oh man, there is the perfect card for replacing Living Plane coming in Dominaria called Sylvan Awakening. Just added it to the deck.

Side note: If you're building this deck, obviously the mana base is totally up to you. None of it is set in stone, in fact, I'm not playing my dual lands on purpose. Dryad Arbor and Lumbering Falls are possible exceptions. These are part of the deck's strategy since Intruder Alarm and Aggravated Assault can untap them.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WB
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.84
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C, Saproling 1/1 G
Folders	make it