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Animar, Soul of Elements - Creature cost reduction and free spells
Animar, Soul of Elements · GRU · 100 cards · 37 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 53Instants 3Sorceries 2Enchantments 4Lands 37
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Strategy
Animar grows with every creature spell and makes them cheaper for each counter, so a deck of creatures becomes progressively free. Protection from white and black also makes him remarkably hard to remove. The build is dense with cheap creatures that accelerate the engine.
Early: Birds of Paradise and Myr Scrapling start the curve. Rhythm of the Wild protects Animar from counterspells and gives the team haste.
Mid: Each creature adds a counter, lowering costs further. Beast Whisperer and Primordial Sage turn every creature into a card, and Ancestral Statue can be replayed repeatedly once Animar is large.
Late: Artisan of Kozilek and Conduit of Ruin represent the top end, cast for a fraction of their printed cost. Hardened Scales and Forgotten Ancient accelerate the counter plan.
Win conditions: Once creature costs approach zero the deck deploys its whole hand in a turn, then attacks with a large Animar and a wide board.
- Ancestral Statue - Repeatable creature cast once Animar is large
- Beast Whisperer - Draws a card for every creature cast
- Rhythm of the Wild - Haste and counter protection for Animar
- Hardened Scales - Grows Animar faster every cast
~$354.66
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Animar, Soul of Elements
Legendary Creature — Elemental
Protection from white and from black
Whenever you cast a creature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Animar.
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on Animar.
Creatures (53)
Stonecoil Serpent
Artifact Creature — Snake
$0.38
Reach, trample, protection from multicolored
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Walking Ballista
Artifact Creature — Construct
$5.62
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
{4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.
Delighted Halfling
Creature — Halfling Citizen
$25.92
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.
Goldvein Hydra
Creature — Hydra
$3.04
Vigilance, trample, haste
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When this creature dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power.
Myr Scrapling
Artifact Creature — Myr
$0.25
Sacrifice this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.
Ainok Survivalist
Creature — Dog Shaman
$0.08
Megamorph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When this creature is turned face up, destroy target artifact or enchantment an opponent controls.
Beastcaller Savant
Creature — Elf Shaman Ally
$0.55
Haste
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell.
Benevolent Hydra
Creature — Hydra
$0.75
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on another creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
{T}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on another target creature you control.
Bloom Tender
Creature — Elf Druid
$12.87
Vivid — {T}: For each color among permanents you control, add one mana of that color.
Cloud of Faeries
Creature — Faerie
$0.25
Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to two lands.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Den Protector
Creature — Human Warrior
$0.15
Creatures with power less than this creature's power can't block it.
Megamorph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When this creature is turned face up, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Fanatic of Rhonas
Creature — Snake Druid
$13.15
{T}: Add {G}.
Ferocious — {T}: Add {G}{G}{G}{G}. Activate only if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Eternalize {2}{G}{G} ({2}{G}{G}, Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Snake Druid with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
Fauna Shaman
Creature — Elf Shaman
$3.75
{G}, {T}, Discard a creature card: Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Hexing Squelcher
Creature — Goblin Sorcerer
$18.47
This spell can't be countered.
Ward—Pay 2 life.
Spells you control can't be countered.
Other creatures you control have "Ward—Pay 2 life."
Hydroid Krasis
Creature — Jellyfish Hydra Beast
$0.31
When you cast this spell, you gain half X life and draw half X cards. Round down each time.
Flying, trample
This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
Ornithopter of Paradise
Artifact Creature — Thopter
$0.37
Flying
{T}: Add one mana of any color.
Rattleclaw Mystic
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.88
{T}: Add {G}, {U}, or {R}.
Morph {2} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, add {G}{U}{R}.
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Creature — Snake Shaman
$0.31
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Spellskite
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
$7.33
{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Stratus Dancer
Creature — Djinn Monk
$0.28
Flying
Megamorph {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
When this creature is turned face up, counter target instant or sorcery spell.
Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
Legendary Creature — Bird Spirit
$34.5
Flash
Flying, vigilance
When Wan Shi Tong enters, put X +1/+1 counters on him. Then draw half X cards, rounded down.
Whenever an opponent searches their library, put a +1/+1 counter on Wan Shi Tong and draw a card.
Willbender
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.11
Morph {1}{U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
When this creature is turned face up, change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$1.1
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Fierce Empath
Creature — Elf
$0.15
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with mana value 6 or greater, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Imperial Recruiter
Creature — Human Advisor
$13.41
When this creature enters, search your library for a creature card with power 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Kami of Whispered Hopes
Creature — Spirit
$4.21
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a permanent you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on that permanent instead.
{T}: Add X mana of any one color, where X is this creature's power.
Reclamation Sage
Creature — Elf Shaman
$0.21
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Ancestral Statue
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.16
When this creature enters, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.
Beast Whisperer
Creature — Elf Druid
$3.49
Whenever you cast a creature spell, draw a card.
Forgotten Ancient
Creature — Elemental
$0.34
Whenever a player casts a spell, you may put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may move any number of +1/+1 counters from this creature onto other creatures.
Phyrexian Metamorph
Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Shapeshifter
$2.09
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.27
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Temur Sabertooth
Creature — Cat
$0.78
{1}{G}: You may return another creature you control to its owner's hand. If you do, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
Vizier of the Menagerie
Creature — Snake Cleric
$0.42
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may cast creature spells from the top of your library.
You can spend mana of any type to cast creature spells.
Kalonian Hydra
Creature — Hydra
$6.03
Trample
This creature enters with four +1/+1 counters on it.
Whenever this creature attacks, double the number of +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
Mulldrifter
Creature — Elemental
$0.29
Flying
When this creature enters, draw two cards.
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Peregrine Drake
Creature — Drake
$0.27
Flying
When this creature enters, untap up to five lands.
Surrak Dragonclaw
Legendary Creature — Human Warrior
$3.21
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Creature spells you control can't be countered.
Other creatures you control have trample.
Conduit of Ruin
Creature — Eldrazi
$4.27
When you cast this spell, you may search your library for a colorless creature card with mana value 7 or greater, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.
The first creature spell you cast each turn costs {2} less to cast.
Primordial Sage
Creature — Spirit
$0.87
Whenever you cast a creature spell, you may draw a card.
Soul of the Harvest
Creature — Elemental
$1.53
Trample
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, you may draw a card.
Hullbreaker Horror
Creature — Kraken Horror
$5.95
Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Nulldrifter
Creature — Eldrazi Elemental
$1.22
When you cast this spell, draw two cards.
Flying
Annihilator 1 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent of their choice.)
Evoke {2}{U} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Maelstrom Wanderer
Legendary Creature — Elemental
$0.31
Creatures you control have haste.
Cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Then do it again.)
Artisan of Kozilek
Creature — Eldrazi
$0.45
When you cast this spell, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Annihilator 2 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices two permanents of their choice.)
Apex Devastator
Creature — Chimera Hydra
$7.64
Cascade, cascade, cascade, cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order. Multiple instances of cascade each trigger separately.)
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
$20.98
When you cast this spell, exile two target permanents.
Indestructible
Whenever Ulamog attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library.
Ulamog, the Defiler
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
$18.5
When you cast this spell, target opponent exiles the top half of their library, rounded up.
Ward—Sacrifice two permanents.
Ulamog enters with a number of +1/+1 counters on it equal to the greatest mana value among cards in exile.
Ulamog has annihilator X, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it.
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
$33.21
When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent.
Indestructible
Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.)
When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.
Instants (3)
Worldly Tutor
Instant
$26.42
Search your library for a creature card, reveal it, then shuffle and put the card on top.
Inspiring Call
Instant
$0.26
Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)
Ugin's Binding
Instant
$0.79
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Whenever you cast a colorless spell with mana value 7 or greater, you may exile this card from your graveyard. When you do, return each nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Sorceries (2)
Wave Goodbye
Sorcery
$2.02
Return each creature without a +1/+1 counter on it to its owner's hand.
Blasphemous Act
Sorcery
$0.73
This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.
Enchantments (4)
Hardened Scales
Enchantment
$2
If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, that many plus one +1/+1 counters are put on it instead.
Garruk's Uprising
Enchantment
$0.38
When this enchantment enters, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw a card.
Creatures you control have trample. (Each of those creatures can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.)
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, draw a card.
Rhythm of the Wild
Enchantment
$4.64
Creature spells you control can't be countered.
Nontoken creatures you control have riot. (They enter with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.)
Temur Ascendancy
Enchantment
$3.79
Creatures you control have haste.
Whenever a creature you control with power 4 or greater enters, you may draw a card.
Lands (37)
Alchemist's Refuge
Land
$0.4
{T}: Add {C}.
{G}{U}, {T}: You may cast spells this turn as though they had flash.
Breeding Pool
Land — Forest Island
$9.52
({T}: Add {G} or {U}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Command Tower
Land
$0.18
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Eldrazi Temple
Land
$3.28
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.
Exotic Orchard
Land
$0.23
{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Hinterland Harbor
Land
$0.3
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest or an Island.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
Karn's Bastion
Land
$2.3
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Kessig Wolf Run
Land
$0.33
{T}: Add {C}.
{X}{R}{G}, {T}: Target creature gets +X/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
Llanowar Reborn
Land
$0.21
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Graft 1 (This land enters with a +1/+1 counter on it. Whenever a creature enters, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this land onto it.)
Mistrise Village
Land
$7.22
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Forest.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn can't be countered.
Mosswort Bridge
Land
$0.26
Hideaway 4 (When this land enters, look at the top four cards of your library, exile one face down, then put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{G}, {T}: You may play the exiled card without paying its mana cost if creatures you control have total power 10 or greater.
Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
Land
$0.39
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
{T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each green creature that entered this turn.
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.26
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Steam Vents
Land — Island Mountain
$9.55
({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Stomping Ground
Land — Mountain Forest
$7.34
({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
Temple of the False God
Land
$0.17
{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.
Basic lands: 13 Forest 5 Island 1 Mountain
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