Animar Combo Pod

Commander / EDH* Combo Counters Infinite Combo RUG (Temur) Sacrifice Tap/Untap

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Creature (40)

• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Bond Beetle
• 1x Breaching Hippocamp
• 1x Brine Elemental
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Corridor Monitor
• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Incubation Druid
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Llanowar Visionary
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Priest of Urabrask
• 1x Prime Speaker Vannifar
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Slithermuse
• 1x Stratus Dancer
• 1x Terror of the Peaks
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wandering Archaic *f-pre*  ^Flip
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (30)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 3x Forest
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 3x Island
• 1x Kessig Wolf Run
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Spire Garden
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Tidechannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Fabricate
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x Brain Freeze
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Delay
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Food Chain
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (5)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Sol Ring

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Fortune Thief
• 1x Kiora's Follower
• 1x Treasonous Ogre

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Impact Tremors

Artifact (4)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Cultivate

Instant (1)

• 1x Beast Within

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Prototype Animar Birthing Pod / Vannifar combo deck.

This is a bit of a janky brain-child really. The purpose of this deck is to take a wild series of intertwining lines to try and one of the several exit conditions resulting in either milling out opponents, creating infinite hasty creature tokens, infinite damage to opponents, etc.

The main engine is to use Animar, Soul of Elements with a few +1/+1 counters and Ancestral Statue which allows for infinite ETBs and an infinitely sized Animar. That paired with anything like Impact Tremors or Purphoros, God of the Forge is the general gist.

To support this combo as well as other alternatives like Kikki Jikki, Mirror Breaker this deck also has Birthing Pod and Prime Speaker Vannifar to help fetch out creatures and cycle up to a creature of Y CMC starting from X using a variety of etb untap creature/permanent abilities. With a few other cards thrown in to further enable the combo and speed things up.

The general Vannifar/Pod line

So this combo can start from a creature of CMC 1 or any CMC above that using either Vannifar or Birthing Pod depending on the amount of mana open and whichever was easier to draw or tutor first.

CMC creature -> Corridor Monitor -> Deceiver Exarch or Pestermite -> Breaching Hippocamp -> CMC creature

then you combo from 3 to 4 into the Ancestral Statue assuming Animar is live with a few counters. Or if Animar is not an option having a Kikki Jikki combo piece available and sacrificing a 4 CMC creature into Kikki Jikki or the combo piece if he is in hand. The goal is not to force this but use it to accelerate all of the other finishers as most of the lines end in a similar fashion. Allowing for different situational routes to be taken depending on what's going on in the game.

Combo Support

There are a variety of regular interaction pieces because we are in blue. I'm still looking at the balance of different counters vs other spot removal items but generally having enough protection to ensure we can combo off and disrupt other players when occasionally needed is helpful. Other pieces like Heroic Intervention or Veil of Summer can also help protect our permanents and combo pieces as most are creatures.

Stuff like Rhythm of the Wild helps to enable any Vannifar combos as riot can give haste. This is also a nice perk for any mana dorks that get played after.

Additional Combos

Beyond the Vannifar/Pod and and Ancestral Statue there is the additional option of using Cloudstone Curio and a few creatures that have non-colored mana costs. As a result i've included 4 morph creatures for some extra tech and a fun combo in "Pickle Lock" with Brine Elemental and Vesuvan Shapeshifter . As long as you have 3 +1/+1 counters on Animar morphing a creature costs .

Line Enders and Kill outlets

There are a variety of ways to win using some of the listed combos

• Infinite Creature ETBs + Purphoros, God of the Forge
• Infinite Creature ETBs + Terror of the Peaks

• Infinite Creature ETBs + Impact Tremors

• Kikki Jikki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts

• Kikki Jikki, Mirror Breaker + Combat Celebrant

• Animar with an equal or greater amount of +1/+1 counters than all opponents have HP + Walking Ballista

• Infinite Casts for Storm + Brain Freeze

and probably some other options like just punching people with an Animar with greater than 21 +1/+1 counters.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 3 Rares 15 - 6 Uncommons 17 - 3 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.67
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C, Treasure