Beastiary

Commander / EDH* Counters RUG (Temur) Trample

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Creature (50)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Ainok Survivalist
• 1x Altered Ego
• 1x Ancient Silver Dragon
• 1x Apocalypse Hydra
• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Augur of Autumn
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Beastcaller Savant
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Deepfathom Skulker
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Elder Gargaroth
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Flamekin Harbinger
• 1x Foundation Breaker
• 1x Genesis Hydra
• 1x God-Eternal Rhonas
• 1x Grand Warlord Radha
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Hydroid Krasis
• 1x Kodama of the West Tree
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Myr Scrapling
• 1x Nylea, God of the Hunt
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Prime Speaker Vannifar
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Saryth, the Viper's Fang
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Shaman of the Great Hunt
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Stratus Dancer
• 1x Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x The Reality Chip
• 1x Wandering Archaic  ^Flip

Land (37)

• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Bala Ged Sanctuary  ^Flip
• 1x Castle Garenbrig
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 8x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Frostboil Snarl
• 1x Game Trail
• 1x Glasspool Shore  ^Flip
• 4x Island
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Mossfire Valley
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Rockfall Vale
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Commander (1)

Instant (5)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Negate
• 1x Wrap in Vigor

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Temur Ascendancy

Artifact (2)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x The Ozolith

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vivien, Champion of the Wilds

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Triumph of the Hordes

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Sideboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Conduit of Ruin
• 1x Garruk's Horde
• 1x Grumgully, the Generous
• 1x Keeper of Fables
• 1x Nyxbloom Ancient
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Slithermuse

Enchantment (2)

• 1x In Search of Greatness
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Instant (2)

• 1x Double Major
• 1x Inspiring Call

Artifact (2)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bow of Nylea

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Maybeboard

Land (19)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Flood Plain
• 1x Grasslands
• 1x Kazandu Refuge
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 1x Rimewood Falls
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 1x Rugged Highlands
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Volatile Fjord

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Playstyle: Combat, commander damage

Commander abilities:

Whenever you cast a creature spell animar gets +1/+1, and each of these reduce grey mana cost on creature spells. This helps you cast big things on the board fast.

Animar also has protection from white and black, meaning it can't be target of those colors or those colors can't deal damage to animar even creatures of those colors and it can't bee blocked by those colors so it's not hard to get animar hit heavy commander damage.

Strategy/Goal:

• Animar gives huge value from creature spells, you want keep your low cost creatures in hand until animar is on the board. Then you grow animar enough with small creatures to get those big creatures cost only 1-2 mana.

• Focus on card draw since this deck will run out of juice quite fast

• Keep your possible boardwipe protection up, since it will be slow to build up back, something like Ozolith helps on that a lot.

• You want be combat aggressive, trample and haste gives your opponents really hard time. You can focus Animar on one player that can't block him to get 21 commander damage.

Endgame:

• You should have a lot of big creatures on the board, if you combine that with Craterhoof Behemoth, Archetype of Imagination or Triumph of the Hordes, that wins you the game.

• Animar is easy to get +infinite/+infinite with Ancestral Statue just bounce that back to your hand and repeat. Man-o'-War is also good on growing your animar fast.

• There are few tutors, best on them being Prime Speaker Vannifar can tutor on board what ever creature you need to get that final push.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 1 Mythic Rares 46 - 8 Rares 17 - 5 Uncommons 11 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.83
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Elephant 3-3 G, Morph 2/2 C
Folders	Good stuff, Misc decks