I've been playing Animatou for about 4 months now. Good build. A little Vanilla (every Animatou deck looks like this at some point). Unless your meta is casual I'd suggest dropping the CMC and losing some of the ways to combo off (Peregrine Drake, Deadeye Nav) in favour of finding cheap ways to tutor your Altar Trinket Mage and protect the combo Silence . I'd also lose Azor (who appears great but is not that good in practice) in favour of Stonehorn Dignitary who provides protection from combat.

Thx for the advice carlmoores! I recently started to notice the high average CMC among my creatures, it`s getting harder to build to a good board state and I can't do much on lets say turn 1 - 5. I am still testing Azor, the Lawbringer . My playgroup doesn't run aggro decks (I have a Edgar Markov Vampire Tribal Deck which is played rarely), we will see how it's performing.

They will be difficult cuts for sure, they were for me. I hated to lose cards like Perplexing Chimera , Magister Sphinx and Yennett, but the deck runs more smoothly and enjoyable with lower casting cost and more efficient cards in their place. I'm also a long way from done playtesting and tuning but, for me, using the ETB guys as board control and card advantage only and devoting the more superflous guys slots to cards to hunt out and protect my end game makes the deck much more enjoyable on the whole (it's worth noting I have 4 different metas and 3 of them are pretty cut throat. Games raraely go beyond turn 7 or 8)