Thanks for the ideas. I had some mana ramp spells in their originally, but I took them out and opted for some creatures that ramped my mana instead. I've found that even if Animar gets killed, as long as I have some of the mana creatures I can manage. I keep playing with it so I'll keep these in mind, the Search for Tomorrow is nice.

the main problem ive always got with my animar is usually my creatures being removed i would say use Mossbridge Troll , Vexing Shusher Asceticism , Lifeline , Plaxmanta and Sylvan Safekeeper just to deal with being removed. other ideas are Defense of the Heart , Kalonian Hydra doubles animar ( however i run more +1/+1 counter stuff, so this was a no brainer for me) Gyre Sage Fathom Mage and Gruul Ragebeast for removal of your own. most of these are probably trash for your deck but you and i run dfferent kinds of decks

Thanks for the input. Looks like we have some differences in our deck build for sure, but I like the Plaxmanta and Sylvan Safekeeper as creature-spells. I will have to look into putting those in, thanks.

OK i suggest first cleaning up your comments section here, it's getting a little long in the tooth. 2nd why Treasure Mage , you don't have a single artifact with cmc 6 or higher accept Blightsteel Colossus and you are just as likely to draw him as the mage. Plus in my humble opinion he is just one of the cheesiest cards ever printed.

I've been thinking of adding Progenitor Mimic and Mirror Gallery in an Animar deck I've been working on don't know if it'll work that well but spamming Animar could be amusing. I find Gilder Bairn is always a great card in combo with him i usually combine in with Experiment Kraj and Elvish Aberration for the infinite combo if they have counters on them but i don't thing that will work as well in here. Just some random ideas i don't know if it'll help all that much i kinda like this deck loads already. +1

Thanks for the tips guys. The comments section is long, I should probably mop it up.

Treasure Mage is staying because in addition to Blightsteel Colossus I can grab Platinum Emperion , Platinum Angel . Nullstone Gargoyle , Steel Hellkite , and Duplicant . That's a plethora of useful creatures that can conceivably be played for free at that point, not to mention duplicant can wipe a commander off the board.

I like the idea of Progenitor Mimic and Mirror Gallery a lot but it doesn't swing with my deck. However, I didn't even know Gilder Bairn existed so I will definitely put that in so that chances of drawing him or Vorel of the Hull Clade are doubled.

Thanks guys!

Like the deck. Animar has so many possibilities. Weird Harvest might be your new friend; since some of the ETB stuff you have going on. Cheers! Feel free to check my animar deck

If you want to get creatures out really fast I would suggest using more artifact creatures like I did in my Animar, Soul of Artifacts deck. Works out pretty insane throwing a lot of artifact creatures out in one turn all boosting each other while the interactive cards are out and gets even wors the longer it runs.

Maybe you can get some ideas from it.

Greets MA

Sylvan primordial is banned!

Thanks for the update, I had him in there for a while, don't know when he became banned.

Birthing Pod or Fauna Shaman ?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Primal Surge not activate Animar because Animar relies on casting?

Also Faerie Impostor might be a good addition to the deck.

Run ancestral statue for the easy info creature cast.

*infi

Tentrian Primal Surge won't activate Animar but since the deck contains no sorcery or instant spells other than that one, I can essentially play the entire deck if that spell is cast.

jacobporter2010 I will check out Ancestral Statue, thank you.

I'm thinking that Palinchron would combo well with Dead-Eye Navigator. It would essentially get you infinite mana, and you could essentially win the game if you add in Sensei's Divining Top and Future Sight so you can have that combo going. Garruk's Horde is good, but it's also good to be able to filter out the stuff that you have on top of your library so you can keep getting more creatures onto the battlefield.

Thanks for the response Saint_Anger

Palinchron or Peregrine Drake paired with a Deadeye Navigator does result in an infinite mana combo as long as you have 4 counters on Animar, which is pretty sick.

Future Sight is more versatile than Garruk's Horde but I like the Horde since it's a creature. I could add Sensei's Divining Top thought to stack the deck and have considered it.... maybe take out Sylvan Library and replace with the top?

Temur Ascendancy ?

Temur Charm?

I believe Prophet of Kruphix is now banned. I was also thinking Fathom Mage, Gyre Sage, and Mulldrifter might be worth looking at.

Mulldrifter should be an auto include for animar in my opinion so i'd pick that over the other two.

say i were to but this deck, what cheaper version of lands would i need aside from the OG dual lands?

Um i really don't know what your budget is like but i would recomend if you want to build a serious Animar deck being able to get him out turn 3 every game so what ever enables you to do that. I have a pretty expensive land base in my current deck (which is not this one, I might update or make a new one).So maybe fast lands, shock lands, scry lands, guildgates (if u need them), maybe filter lands.

My budget is less than $800, so those OG tap lands are out of the budget for me, i was intending on using the shock lands that were re printed in zendikar expeditions.