Animar EDH

Commander / EDH*

Bondon

Creature (54)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Beastcaller Savant
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloodbraid Elf
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Dream Stalker
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Phyrexian Ingester
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Shaman of Forgotten Ways
• 1x Shaman of the Great Hunt
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Spearbreaker Behemoth
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stonehoof Chieftain
• 1x Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Verdurous Gearhulk
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1x Woodland Bellower
• 1x Yavimaya Elder
• 1x Yavimaya Granger
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 9x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 6x Island
• 1x Llanowar Reborn
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Commander (1)

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Survival of the Fittest

Artifact (2)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Instant (2)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Swan Song

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Domri Rade

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Cultivate

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Land (3)

• 1x Halimar Depths
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Raging Ravine

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Relatively standard Animar EDH deck with a lot of creature ramp and high converted-mana cost creatures.

Took awhile for me to find a mana curve that felt really good. Building a deck like this seems pretty straightforward in terms of cheating in a lot of high CMC creatures, but it's also important to have a lot of cheap value creatures that help you ramp and provide card advantage in order to build Animar up, recover from board wipes (which happens a lot in multiplayer games), and overall just make the deck a lot more resilient to interaction.

Recently subbed in Swan Song in order to provide a little bit of extra protection against wrath effects, to go along with Glen Elendra, Draining Whelk, and Mystic Snake. Will likely try to find room for Pact of Negation sometime soon, likely subbing out Evolutionary Leap as that was a budget option until I obtained a copy of Survival of the Fittest. May also consider running Fauna Shaman instead or in addition at some point.

Open to any and all feedback!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	17 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 11 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.36
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Elephant 3-3 G, Emblem Domri Rade, Insect 1/1 G w/ Flying, Deathtouch, Morph 2/2 C