Animar, the Foil Menace

Commander / EDH Combo Competitive Infinite Combo RUG (Temur)

JoshRigone

Clones (6)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Clone
• 1x Dack's Duplicate
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter

Combo (7)

• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Pestermite

Counterspells (7)

• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Mizzium Meddler
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Plaxmanta
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Voidmage Husher

Draw (8)

• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Shaman of the Great Hunt
• 1x Slithermuse
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Goodstuff (7)

• 1x Frost Titan
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1x Soul of New Phyrexia
• 1x Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of HungerGC

Lands (36)

• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gaea's CradleGC
• 1x Grove of the Burnwillows
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 4x Island
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Temple of Abandon
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Ramp (12)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scuttlemutt
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid

Recursion (6)

• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Temur Sabertooth

Removal (3)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Tutors (12)

• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Survival of the FittestGC
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

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Other (8)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Garruk's Packleader
• 1x Grinning Ignus
• 1x Jace's Mindseeker
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core AugurGC
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Satyr Grovedancer
• 1x Terastodon

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This used to be my go to commander deck at SCG Hobby Latrobe, but the crowd is not quite competitive enough to warrant playing it. The deck started out as a pretty casual big-dumb-idiots deck that had some cute interactions and that got to play oft-forgotten multi-colored creatures of days past. Over the past year I've been gradually adjusting card selections to make it a leaner combo engine that attempts to look innocuous enough to be left alone.

Typically, the goal is to generate infinite mana and then rebuy various ETB triggers. The most common route is to get both Deadeye Navigator + Palinchron into play soulbonded with one another. With at least three lands in play (one of which produces ) you can spend to flicker Palinchron. When it re-enters, it's untap trigger goes on the stack and you tap your last land to float mana, then proceed to untap. Wash, rinse, repeat. Then you can re-pair Deadeye Navigator with any other relevant ETB creature. The most straightforward win-con is to infinitely flicker Inferno Titan. To assemble this combo we have Tooth and Nail, Defense of the Heart, Sylvan Tutor and Worldly Tutor. However, Fierce Empath can assemble the combo all by itself - Empath enters, you search for Deadeye Navigator, cast Navigator bonded with Empath and flicker to find Palinchron. Once you have infinite mana you can pair Deadeye with Empath again and flicker to find Inferno Titan. Because of this combo in a can explosiveness, I've included both Green Sun's Zenith and Summoner's Pact to go search for Fierce Empath.

The second most common win-con is to generate infinite hasty attackers with Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Pestermite (Deceiver Exarch also works). Much like the first combo, we have a single card to search for the entire set-up: Imperial Recruiter. By casting Recruiter, searching for Kiki, you can cast Kiki and copy Recruiter to go search for either Exarch or Pestermite. If Animar, Soul of Elements has at least 2 counters, then you can execute the entire combo for only . Imperial Recruiter is easily the most versatile card in the deck, because you can search for almost any single creature by either searching for a relevant 2-power or less creature or finding Fierce Empath with it and then going digging for a bigger target.

Date added	10 years
Last updated	8 years
Key combos	Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Pestermite Deadeye Navigator + Palinchron
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 53 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.03
Tokens	Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	Uril, EDH Like, Decks I Want To Use For Ideas