Oh Animar!

Commander / EDH*

masterosok

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 4x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Gruul Turf
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 5x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Control (7)

• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger

Clone (4)

• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Progenitor Mimic

Draw (11)

• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum

Ramp (10)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Great Whale
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Rattleclaw Mystic
• 1x Scuttlemutt
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Wood Elves

Protection (8)

• 1x Archetype of Endurance
• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Elgaud Shieldmate
• 1x Glamerdye
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Scuttlemutt
• 1x Surrak Dragonclaw
• 1x Thassa, God of the Sea

Tutor (6)

• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Recursion (3)

• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Den Protector
• 1x Eternal Witness

Commander (1)

Removal (11)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Phyrexian Ingester
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Bounce (7)

• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Dream Stalker
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Quickling
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant

Utility (6)

• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Hardened Scales
• 1x Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1x Prismatic Omen
• 1x Thragtusk
• 1x Xenagos, God of Revels

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Other (26)

• 1x Angel of Finality
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Centaur Omenreader
• 1x Doubling Season
• 1x Frost Titan
• 1x Glimpse of Nature
• 1x Invasive Species
• 1x Ivy Lane Denizen
• 1x Jace's Mindseeker
• 1x Jori En, Ruin Diver
• 1x Keranos, God of Storms
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Mist Raven
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Rashmi, Eternities Crafter
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Shaman of the Great Hunt
• 1x Slithermuse
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Void Stalker
• 1x Voidmage Husher
• 1x Whirlpool Rider

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I wanted to build a more competitive deck with lots of interactions and I generally prefer creature based decks so I decided to go with Animar. Who doesn't like casting creatures on the cheap right?

The obvious choice with Animar is lots of creatures with ETBs, for removal, bounce, control etc.

For the most part your goal is to get Animar out as soon as you can though waiting a turn or two to gather some sort of protection for him isn't out of the question. Then start building up his counters hoping to tutor or draw into an decent draw engine so you can keep bouncing and recasting your creatures. Once its gets going it can be hard to stop. I tried to focus on the more useful creatures with ETBs that had flash in case I need to cast them at instant speed and morph creatures as well since the can be cast for free with 3 counters on Animar.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 13 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.20
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C
Folders	EDH