Animar, Soul of Combos ::: cEDH Primer

Commander / EDH* ToffMcSoft

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Winning - Very Happy & Tuned —May 14, 2018

Local card shop runs a weekly EDH League, 13 week season. This season is currently on week 8 and Animar is in 1st place.

Very pleased with the state of the deck, there's maybe micro tuning coming, otherwise, this list is tuned for highly competitive play.

AStorm02 says... #1

Have you considered Altar of the Brood as a win con with Animar, Soul of Elements on the field and Ancestral Statue in hand?

April 28, 2018 2:49 p.m.

Shane.Allen says... #2

Very nice deck, As A cEDH player myself I think its a very good well done deck.

April 29, 2018 6:21 p.m.

ToffMcSoft says... #3

I like the idea of Alter of the Brood, the only concern is when you're already at the point of playing permenants to "Mill" someone, you're most likely playing those permanents for another win con already.

Definitely going to play test this though. Awesome suggestion and really makes the argument to put Trinket Mage in the build.

Thanks AStorm02

April 30, 2018 4:04 a.m. Edited.

ToffMcSoft says... #4

@ Shane.Allen - thanks for the comment. Took a lot of playing to get it tuned to this point. So far it's stacked up nicely against multiple Tier 1 & 2 decks in both multiplayer & heads-up matches.

April 30, 2018 10:32 a.m.

ToffMcSoft says... #5

Most likely going to be replacing Deadeye Navigator, Stunt Double, Phantasmal Image.

Absolutely need spot removal, specifically Artifact removal.

Thinking about these: Caustic Caterpillar, Gamble, Sylvan Safekeeper or Siren Stormtamer

April 30, 2018 11:02 a.m.

AStorm02 says... #6

for artifact/enchantment spot removal have you considered Ainok Survivalist and Nantuko Vigilante? They both can be played basically for free with animar and they can be returned to hand for another use rather than Caustic Caterpillar which has to be sacrificed.

April 30, 2018 3:32 p.m.

AStorm02 says... #7

Also morphs don't use the stack so they can't be countered by cards like stifle, and their targets controller can't respond

April 30, 2018 3:33 p.m.

ToffMcSoft says... #8

@ AStorm02 - Ainok Survivalist has been swapped right away for Deadeye Navigator

May 1, 2018 10:01 a.m.

SynergyBuild says... #9

Love all Animar Builds, when you went over what decks you go against, no Tana/Tymna Stax?

May 3, 2018 11:56 a.m.

ToffMcSoft says... #10

SynergyBuild - Nope, no Tana./Tymna Stax in the meta currently.

The Thrasios/Tymna build is this 1: Thrasios and Tymna Infinite Loops of Death

It's really dirty, deck is a monster.

May 3, 2018 12:05 p.m.

SynergyBuild says... #11

I've seen http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/walkingball/, but paradox/isochron combo is new to me in the meta, cool!

May 3, 2018 12:21 p.m.