Animar, weird Combos

Commander / EDH* Budget Combo Competitive Counters Infinite Combo RUG (Temur)

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Creature (48)

• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bond Beetle
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Tinder Wall
• 1x Wild Cantor
• 1x Beastcaller Savant
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Goblin Cratermaker
• 1x Malevolent Hermit  ^Flip
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Plaxmanta
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Stratus Dancer
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Foul Emissary
• 1x Generous Patron
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Prowling Serpopard
• 1x Raven Familiar
• 1x Rishkar, Peema Renegade
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Slithermuse
• 1x Vizier of the Menagerie
• 1x Defiler of Dreams
• 1x Kiri-Onna
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Tishana, Voice of Thunder

Land (29)

• 1x Botanical Sanctum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Cragcrown Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 7x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 3x Island
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Snow-Covered Island
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Thran Quarry
• 1x Tidechannel Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Gamble
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Weird Harvest
• 1x Eldritch Evolution

Artifact (2)

• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Skullclamp

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Mental Misstep
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reclaim
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Spell Pierce
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Delay

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

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A fast-combo guide to Animar.

How It Works

This deck works with fast lines of combos, it have a wide range of mana dorks, creatures with sinergic ETB and protections for Animar. You can't let your commander exit the battlefield for anything, this will cost (possibly) the game.

Another thing that you must have in mind is that you need to put Animar in battlefield as soon as possible. In other lists you can cast it on Turn 1 in many different ways, but the budget afected this area, so you must search for an Animar cast on Turns 1 or 2 (if you cast it T1 you may lose important resources).

Combos

• Ancestral Statue + Animar, Soul of Elements with 4+ counters (infinity cast).

• Kiri-Onna + Peregrine Drake + Phyrexian Metamorph (infinite mana and casts).

In Kiri-Onna's combo you can put a lot of counters on animar, but to go infinity cast and mana you need at least 4 lands on the board, all of them generating {U} and one must generate all colors without ani conditions, lie Command Tower, because the combo needs the cast of three creatures with a {U} on the cost.

Win Conditions

• Primordial Sage and Beast Whisperer to draw the deck.

• Walking Ballista to win the game causing damage on your opponents.

Some interactions of the deck

• Vizier of the Menagerie this is a very interesting card. It let's you virtually storm all your deck in its interaction with Animar, Soul of Elements.

• Dockside Extortionist: Sometimes A well put dockside on the board can give you the game on Turn 2. It is the most powerful card on EDH today.

Chains for the combo

This is the real last update actually. After a lot of search and making quastions to some guys that have a great experience with Animar, I realized that my decklist was missing a few of these.

• When Imperial Recruiter ETB triggs, you search for Spellseeker and then Neoform to find Ancestral Statue and make infinite casts.Then you use Ancestral Statue targeting Imperial Recruiter finding Walking Ballista. This line, if you start with 2+ counters on animar, will cost only {U}{U}{R}{R}{G}.

• It's similar to the line above, so I'll sum up: Imperial Recruiter for phyirexian metamorph targeting Imperial Recruiter for Spellseeker for Neoform sacrificing Spellseeker for Ancestral Statue and going infinite counters on Animar. After this you will use Ancestral Statue targeting Phyrexian Metamorph to Imperial Recruiter finding Walking Ballista and winning the game. It will cost only {G}{U}{U}{R}{UP}{UP}.

• The line with Peregrine Drake on the end is a little bit more specific. You will need more mana, but it will give you infinite mana at the end. At the counter 2 on Animar you must cast Imperial Recruiter to get Phyrexian Metamorph put him copying Imperial Recruiter searching for Kiri-Onna, cast her returning Phyrexian Metamorph to your hand, then cast him back copiyng Kiri-Onna where her habillity will trigg and you will return both of them to your hand. Then you will cast Phyrexian Metamorph again, this time copying Imperial Recruiter and searching for Peregrine Drake. As you have infinite casts of any creature on your hand and your battlefield, you can cast Phyrexian Metamorph copiyng Imperial Recruiter at any time, searching for Walking Ballista and win your game. At this line you will get {R} {UP} {U} {UP} {UP} {U} to get infinite mana. It's a lot of mana, but you can reduce this by paying life for the phyrexian manas. Virtually you will spent only {R} {U} {U} to cast this combo, leaving you with enough mana to exchange a few counters and veils. REMEMBER THE PRE REQUISITES TO USE THIS LINE ABOVE, ON THE WIN CONDITION'S PANNEL

Top Ranked	Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Budget 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Counters 5 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH RUG (Temur) 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	1 year
Splash colors	R
Key combos	Ancestral Statue + Animar, Soul of Elements Kiri-Onna + Peregrine Drake + Phyrexian Metamorph
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 24 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.21
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Eldrazi Horror 3/2 C, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Morph 2/2 C, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure
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