AnimaRAWR! Soul of the beatdown!

Commander / EDH* Aggro Infinite Combo Multiplayer RUG (Temur)

Zharmiso

Creature (47)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloodbraid Elf
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Champion of Lambholt
• 1x Clone
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Cursecatcher
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Dream Stalker
• 1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Erayo, Soratami Ascendant  ^Flip
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Fathom Mage
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Hapless Researcher
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Maelstrom Wanderer
• 1x Man-o'-War
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Owl Familiar
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Primordial Sage
• 1x Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1x Quirion Sentinel
• 1x Raven Familiar
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Shardless Agent
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Skirk Prospector
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Tidespout Tyrant
• 1x Tinder Wall
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wild Cantor
• 1x Wood Elves

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Copperline Gorge
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 4x Island
• 1x Meteor Crater
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Thran Quarry
• 1x Tropical Island
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth

Artifact (2)

• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Skullclamp

Instant (3)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Snap
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Glimpse of Nature
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Time Spiral
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Creature (33)

• 1x Arctic Merfolk
• 1x Bond Beetle
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Dawntreader Elk
• 1x Drift of Phantasms
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Ethereal Usher
• 1x Fathom Seer
• 1x Forgotten Ancient
• 1x Garruk's Horde
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Lighthouse Chronologist
• 2x Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
• 1x Ondu Giant
• 1x Prime Speaker Zegana
• 1x Prophet of Kruphix
• 1x Quirion Trailblazer
• 1x Sea Gate Oracle
• 1x Slithermuse
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 2x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1x Sylvan Ranger
• 1x Ulvenwald Tracker
• 1x Vesuvan Shapeshifter
• 1x Veteran Explorer
• 1x Yavimaya Granger

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Garruk, Primal Hunter

Land (1)

• 1x Vesuva

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Equilibrium
• 1x Mark of Eviction
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Splinter Twin

Artifact (3)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 2x Cloudstone Curio

Instant (5)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Muddle the Mixture
• 1x Signal the Clans
• 1x Summoner's Pact

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Bribery
• 1x Grapeshot
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Mind's Desire
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Shared Discovery
• 1x Time Warp

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Maybeboard

Creature (91)

• 1x AEther Adept
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Archwing Dragon
• 1x Artisan of Kozilek
• 1x Balefire Dragon
• 1x Beguiler of Wills
• 1x Brutalizer Exarch
• 1x Burning-Tree Emissary
• 1x Daring Apprentice
• 1x Deadwood Treefolk
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Diplomatic Escort
• 1x Disruptive Student
• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 1x Dragonmaster Outcast
• 1x Draining Whelk
• 1x Elvish Herder
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Faerie Impostor
• 1x Fatespinner
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Flamekin Harbinger
• 1x Fog Bank
• 1x Garruk's Packleader
• 1x Gilder Bairn
• 1x Great Whale
• 1x Guard Gomazoa
• 1x Heartwood Storyteller
• 1x Hellkite Charger
• 1x Hunted Troll
• 1x Hunting Moa
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
• 1x Johnny, Combo Player
• 1x Krosan Restorer
• 1x Legion Loyalist
• 1x Llawan, Cephalid Empress
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Magus of the Candelabra
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Nantuko Vigilante
• 1x Orcish Lumberjack
• 1x Plaxmanta
• 1x Priest of Urabrask
• 1x Primordial Hydra
• 1x Psychosis Crawler
• 1x Pyreheart Wolf
• 1x Quirion Sentinel
• 1x Riptide Mangler
• 1x Roughshod Mentor
• 1x Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
• 1x Sage of Epityr
• 1x Sage of Fables
• 1x Sage Owl
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Scout
• 1x Silver Myr
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Slithermuse
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Somberwald Sage
• 1x Spearbreaker Behemoth
• 1x Sphinx of Magosi
• 1x Spike Weaver
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Sylvan Ranger
• 1x Sylvok Replica
• 1x Timid Drake
• 1x Trusted Advisor
• 1x Trygon Predator
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Utopia Tree
• 1x Verdant Eidolon
• 1x Vesuvan Doppelganger
• 1x Viashino Heretic
• 1x Voidmage Husher
• 1x Vorel of the Hull Clade
• 1x Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wall of Tears
• 1x Waterfront Bouncer
• 1x Wickerbough Elder
• 1x Willbender
• 1x Wingcrafter
• 1x Wirewood Symbiote
• 1x Wizard Mentor
• 1x Zhur-Taa Ancient

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Domri Rade
• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker

Land (1)

• 1x Llanowar Reborn

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Canopy Cover
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Dance of Many
• 1x Declaration of Naught
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x In the Eye of Chaos
• 1x Lurking Predators
• 1x Nature's Will
• 1x Opposition
• 1x Primal Rage
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Shimmer
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (7)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Lifeline
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Relic of Progenitus
• 1x Ring of Evos Isle
• 1x Ring of Kalonia

Instant (11)

• 1x Capsize
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reclaim
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Unified Will
• 1x Veil of Secrecy
• 1x Wildwood Rebirth
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Artful Dodge
• 1x Give / Take
• 1x Increasing Savagery
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Lead the Stampede
• 1x Living Wish
• 1x Primal Surge
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Windfall

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INTRODUCTION:

This is actually my first EDH deck and I would love suggestions or advice for it.

Animar is a powerful general that dodges most removal thanks to black and white protection. He gets large very quickly with the right cards can throw every creature imaginable out onto the field before opponents can even react.

This particular animar deck is built for multiplayer and can consistently either establish a dominating board position or enter an infinite combo(but by no means relies on these combos) by turn 4-6ish.

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INFINITE COMBOS:

Cloudstone Curio + mana generator (such as Peregrine Drake ) and any other creature

Equilibrium + mana generator + another creature=bounce all their permanents.

Aluren + any creature that bounces itself and under three mana such as Shrieking Drake. Add Champion of Lambholt for an unblockable Animar!

Deadeye Navigator+ any mana generator. Combine with a whole assortment of cards for controlling shenanigans.

Earthcraft + any bouncing creature. Tap the creature as it comes to play but before it bounces back to your hand. Then keep playing it for an infinitely large Animar!

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PLAYSTYLEAnimar does extremely well against most decks, especially if they have trouble blocking him due to his protections. Fighting against him, pure U control decks shut him down, but other then that not much can face off against him and hope to survive.

This deck is best changed depending on the local meta. Lots of grave-play? Run Relic of Progenitus and toromund's crypt as grave-hate. Artifacts? Do Sylvok Replica and Krosan Grip.

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STRATEGY:Typically no creatures are played until turn 3 when Animar is played (turn 2 if birds of paradise or some other booster is played.) Turn 2 can also be used to play other cards such as earthcraft, survival of the fittest, or worldly tutor.

Once turn four rolls around the objective is to get as many counters as possible on Animar. Animar could very easily gain an infinite amount of counters at this point, but he typically gains 3-6 (Then swinging for 4-7 damage).

By turn five you are likely only restricted by the colored mana on your cards. You can set up a draw engine at this point with cards like Garruk's hoard or extend the length of your turns by casting cards such as Palinchron. Glimpse of nature combined with a draw engine could very easily allow you to play the whole deck at this point!

Turn 6 onwards, Just keep going. If Animar is killed with a wrath of god or some other method it is fairly easy to replay him due to his low cost. And with creatures that bounce themselves in hand he can quickly recover.

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FINAL THOUGHTS:Overall, I'm having tremendous fun with this deck. Every game is different and the increase in size for Animar causes quite a bit of tension at the table and makes the game much more exciting for everyone.

Date added	11 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 7 Mythic Rares 53 - 29 Rares 12 - 5 Uncommons 22 - 15 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.97
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C, Spirit 1/1 C, Wurm 6/6 G