COUNTER INTELLIGENCE - BY ANIMAR - [COMMANDER] (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

COUNTER INTELLIGENCE - BY ANIMAR - [COMMANDER]

Commander / EDH Aggro Counters RUG (Temur)

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Creature (57)

Land (36)

Commander (1)

Enchantment (3)

Sideboard

Enchantment (1)

1x Hydra's Growth

Instant (1)

1x Invigorating Surge

Maybeboard

Enchantment (1)

1x Lurking Predators

This deck is pretty self explanatory I think. Get out Animar. Play creatures to put tokens on him. The more tokens he has, the cheaper your creatures become and the bigger he gets. This version of the deck has a whole lot of Draw Advantage on its creature to support the creature spamming. There are a few creature tutor cards added in in order to find situational answers when they come up in battle. I have put huge amounts of thought into this deck and it's updates and it is a blast to play.

The breakdown of ability types goes something like this. Note that more than a few of these cards fit into more than one category, such as Gyre Sage or Shaman of the Great Hunt for example.

The current land breakdown is:
3 Revised Dual Lands
3 Shock Lands
3 Check Lands
3 Buddy Lands
3 Filter Lands
3 Bounce Lands
3 Basic Lands
6 Fetch Lands
3 Green Only Lands
6 Spectrum Lands

1x Altered Ego >>>> BIG CREATURES
1x Forgotten Ancient >>>> BIG CREATURES
1x Mistcutter Hydra >>>> BIG CREATURES
1x Primordial Hydra >>>> BIG CREATURES
1x Progenitor Mimic >>>> BIG CREATURES
1x Protean Hydra >>>> BIG CREATURES
1x Savageborn Hydra >>>> BIG CREATURES
1x Ancestral Statue >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Archetype of Endurance >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Archetype of Imagination >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Champion of Lambholt >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Ogre Battledriver >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Pathbreaker Ibex >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Platinum Angel >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Purphoros, God of the Forge >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Sun Quan, Lord of Wu >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Surrak Dragonclaw >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Thunderfoot Baloth >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Vigor >>>> BLANKET EFFECTS
1x Bloodspore Thrinax >>>> CREATURE SUPPORT
1x Kalonian Hydra >>>> CREATURE SUPPORT
1x Master Biomancer >>>> CREATURE SUPPORT
1x Vorel of the Hull Clade >>>> CREATURE SUPPORT
1x Hardened Scales >>>> CREATURE SUPPORT
1x Abzan Beastmaster >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Armorcraft Judge >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Consecrated Sphinx >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Garruk's Packleader >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Prime Speaker Zegana >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Primordial Sage >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Shaman of the Great Hunt >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Soul of the Harvest >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Soul's Majesty >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Sword of Fire and Ice >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Domri Rade >>>> DRAW ADVANTAGE
1x Beastcaller Savant >>>> RAMP
1x Birds of Paradise >>>> RAMP
1x Bloom Tender >>>> RAMP
1x Gyre Sage >>>> RAMP
1x Selvala, Heart of the Wilds >>>> RAMP
1x Somberwald Sage >>>> RAMP
1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger >>>> RAMP
1x Balefire Dragon >>>> REMOVAL/CONTROL
1x Beguiler of Wills >>>> REMOVAL/CONTROL
1x Cytoplast Manipulator >>>> REMOVAL/CONTROL
1x Dream Stalker >>>> REMOVAL/CONTROL
1x Man-o'-War >>>> REMOVAL/CONTROL
1x Spike Weaver >>>> REMOVAL/CONTROL
1x Steel Hellkite >>>> REMOVAL/CONTROL
1x Tyrant's Familiar >>>> REMOVAL/CONTROL
1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger >>>> REMOVAL/CONTROL
1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre >>>> REMOVAL/CONTROL
1x Ulvenwald Tracker >>>> REMOVAL/CONTROL
1x Fierce Empath >>>> TUTORING
1x Fauna Shaman >>>> TUTORING
1x Genesis Hydra >>>> TUTORING
1x Momir Vig, Simic Visionary >>>> TUTORING
1x Defense of the Heart >>>> TUTORING
1x Survival of the Fittest >>>> TUTORING

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Version 7.0 - 63 Cards changed to date since v1.0 — Sept. 22, 2016

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A few changes based off of some recommendations on Reddit.

-1 Doubling Season >>>> +1 Ancestral Statue
-1 Fathom Mage >>>> +1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
-1 Renegade Krasis >>>> +1 Bloom Tender
-1 Thrummingbird >>>> +1 Birds of Paradise
-1 Nullmage Shepherd >>>> +1 Dream Stalker
-1 Willow Satyr >>>> +1 Beguiler of Wills
-1 Drumhunter >>>> +1 Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
-1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers >>>> +1 Man-o'-War
-1 Dryad Arbor >>>> +1 Somberwald Sage
-1 Llanowar Reborn >>>> +1 Beastcaller Savant

Doubling Season was really only using one of its effects because there is only one card in this deck that makes token creatures. Also with its 5 drop cost not being reduced by Animar, it takes all 5 lands on turn 5 to be able to play it, which slows down the steady stream of creatures coming out. Ancestral Statue, assuming you have 4 +1/+1 counters on animar, is an infinite combo that can be used to give Animar infinite +1/+1 counters, or if you add Soul of the Harvest or one of its kin, you get infinite card draw as well, or if you add Purphoros you can do infinite damage to all players. It just has alot more potential especially early on, for outright winning the game or at least ramping the hell out of your strategy. So although I love doubling season, this seemed like the most reasonable cut.

Fathom Mage is great for drawing some cards, but Purphoros is dealing damage to each of your opponents every time you play a creature, which you are usually playing several of damn near every turn past 3. Plus with its game ending combo with Ancestral Statue, it was just a solid trade, even though this deck is an aggro deck, not a combo deck.

Renegade Krasis was a really had decision but I keep getting commentary on how I need some more mana dorks, and honestly, bloom tender is an amazing little producer in this deck, plus its low cmc can make it one of the first creatures you play post animar etb to start beefing him up.

Thrumingbird has always felt like one of the most natural and logical choices for this deck, but I needed more mana dorks, and Birds of Paradise is a solid replacement. Thrumingbird can only proliferate when it actually does combat damage, which with flying is much easier but is still circumstantial, where Birds of Paradise is an any color mana dork that can still chump block a flyer like Thrumingbird can.

Nullmage Shepherd was something I added in as a tutor target for when disenchant is what I really need, but since this version has 2 Ulamogs in it that each have exile ANY permanent, I think it had become unnecessary. Dream Stalker on the other hand has a lower CMC. Its etb bounce ability can either be used to cycle it in much the same way as ancestral statue except it takes 1 blue instead of being free. It's etb bounce ability though could be used to bring back Animar to my hand if he gets transformed into a land by Song of the Dryads, Imprisoned in the Moon, or a similar effect. Although this isn't a tutor heavy deck, the 6 tutors I do have increase the value on this choice.

Drumhunter for Rashmi, Eternities Crafter was an easy choice. Rashmi is just outright better than Drumhunter. In Animar cmc terms it is 1 higher, however it's draw is not conditional like drumhunters, and it may even play the card for free instead of drawing it, which is outright better.

Willow Satyr was in for some much needed creature stealing. Begiuler of Wills however is the same Animar CMC and it's creature stealing is both permanent and repeatable. Plus I have been wanting to use Begiuler of Wills in a deck FOREVER. So It's inclusion as a strictly better puts a smile on my face.

I had also been told that my land count may in fact be a bit high, and after checking out edhrec and seeing that the average for Animar is 36, I decided to cut a few lands for a few more creatures.

I cut Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers for Man o War because Man o War can cycle in the same way as Dream Stalker and Ancestral Statue, or it could be used to bounce a troublesome enemy creature.

Dryard Arbor comes into play tapped, so even though it is also a creature which is nice, I cut it for Somberwald Sage in order to get some more colored mana ramp going to help spam creatures even harder.

Llanowar Reborn's graft ability is nice but it also comes into play tapped which slows me down, so I replaced it with Beastcaller Savant, which can make mana of any color, has haste so it can do it the turn I play it, and is low CMC to help bump up Animar.

Version 6.0 — Sept. 19, 2016

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Version 5.0 — Sept. 18, 2016

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Version 4.0 — Aug. 31, 2016

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Version 3.0 — Aug. 19, 2016

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Version 2.0 — Aug. 14, 2016

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Date added	8 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	20 - 0 Mythic Rares 61 - 0 Rares 9 - 2 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.30
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Domri Rade
Folders	~PET PROJECTS, Animar, Soul of Elements
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