Maximum Effort (Active)

Commander / EDH* Combo Competitive RUG (Temur)

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Creature (40)

• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bond Beetle
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Myr Scrapling
• 1x Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1x Beastcaller Savant
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Cloud of Faeries
• 1x Dour Port-Mage
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Goblin Cratermaker
• 1x Volatile Stormdrake
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Augur of Autumn
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Formidable Speaker
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Loyal Drake
• 1x Professional Face-Breaker
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Spellseeker
• 1x Transit Mage
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Ancestral Statue
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x High Fae Trickster
• 1x Oakhame Adversary
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Temur Sabertooth
• 1x Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1x Mezzio Mugger
• 1x Consecrated SphinxGC

Land (29)

• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 2x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 6x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Rootbound Crag
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Stormcarved Coast
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Waterlogged Grove
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Preordain
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Neoform
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Weird Harvest

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip

Commander (1)

Instant (18)

• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Dispel
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Miscast
• 1x Mystical TutorGC
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Worldly TutorGC
• 1x Abrade
• 1x Ancient Animus
• 1x Negate
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Fierce GuardianshipGC
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Force of WillGC
• 1x Shared Summons

Artifact (1)

• 1x Mox Amber

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Mezzio Mugger

Instant (1)

• 1x Resculpt

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Maybeboard

Creature (9)

• 1x Gaea's Herald
• 1x Pollenbright Druid
• 1x Reckless Reveler
• 1x Torch Fiend
• 1x Thrashing Brontodon
• 1x Witty Roastmaster
• 1x Profaner of the Dead
• 1x Riverwise Augur
• 1x Palinchron

Land (2)

• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 1x Spire Garden

Artifact (2)

• 1x Chrome MoxGC
• 1x Mox DiamondGC

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Forced Adaptation
• 1x Utopia Sprawl

Instant (2)

• 1x Stubborn Denial
• 1x Force of Vigor

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W/L 6-6

The Deck; In 7 Parts 

Part 1: Draw Package

This is How We Draw

Beast Whisperer and Soul of the Harvest = 4 drop possibly 2, draw a card for each creature we play afterwards. Really speeding up the process of finding our wincons. 

Elvish Visionary, Fblthp, the Lost and Wall of Blossoms = early game draw and some defense. Mainly here for just the draw.

Gitaxian Probe = to check and see if that one guy has that counter, to make sure we can safely go off without a hitch.

Mulldrifter = Mulldrifter gives us guaranteed draw two.

Loyal Drake card draw every turn.

Sea-Dasher Octopus, Toski, Bearer of Secrets and Oakhame Adversary are attack and draw. I can do this.

Sylvan Library = cause draw three for 8 life, lessgo!

Part 2: Ramp Package

This is our Ramp

Arbor Elf = untaps those dual forest to give us the additional color, and give us that turn 2 Animar.

Beastcaller Savant = hasty Mana dork.

Birds of Paradise = best turn one Mana dork ever. Helps get that turn 2 Animar.

Bloom Tender = best turn 2 Mana dork

Elvish Mystic, Fyndhorn Elves and Llanowar Elves= generic turn 1 Mana dork. Helps for those counters on Animar if it goes late game.

Dockside Extortionist = great card for potentially going infinite Mana, and solid ramp early game

Peregrine Drake = untapping 5 lands can be easily manipulated nicely and in the right combo, generating infinite Mana.

Mox Amber seems bad at first, but can give us some good ramp and an explosive turn on turn 3, after animar comes out.

Growing Rites of Itlimoc = when flipped, generating a ton of mana

Wild Growth = turn 1 on a dual, giving us that turn 2 Animar

Farseek, Nature's Lore and Rampant Growth = 2 drop land tutor.

Wood Elves = 3 drop land tutor and blocker

Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer = early damage/ramp/card advantage

Part 3: Counter Package

Need to Stay Protected

Arcane Denial, Flusterstorm, Dispel, Swan Song, Negate, Pact of Negation and Narset's Reversal = the spell N{U}PE

Glen Elendra Archmage and Siren Stormtamer = the creature N{U}PE

Deflecting Swat = free redirect

Part 4: Removal Package

Don't need that Negativity

Caustic Caterpillar, Abrade, Goblin Cratermaker and Ainok Survivalist = seems minimal to have this specific removal, but the reason why we have it is for that pesky Torpor Orb. We have a lot of creatures in the deck that is heavily focused on enter the battlefield effects. We can't and will not stand for it.

Reclamation Sage, Gemrazer and Acidic Slime = spot removal for any pain in the butt enchantments or artifacts.

Pongify and Reality Shift = creature spot removal in the form of actual spells. It's needed, so we don't have to worry about anything.

Ancient Animus = animar creature hate

Part 5: Tutors

Need to Find my Stuff

Fauna Shaman = this card makes tutoring other creatures such as Imperial Recruiter a breeze. Get rid of something we may not need to get something we much rather want.

Mystical TutorGC = can find our Weird Harvest combo.

Shared Summons = just like Weird Harvest at instant speed, we can find our wincon that's in Ancestral Statue and Walking Ballista

Neoform, Weird Harvest, Imperial Recruiter and Spellseeker = these cards will are all part of a winning combo at any point of the game. The combos are listed below.

Part 6: Enablers

Pushing our Progress. This area also includes things that I'm willing to cut off first, if it's not part of the larger pay off.

Bond Beetle, Generous Patron and Rishkar, Peema Renegade = these creatures not only give animar a counter just for coming out on the board, but their etb's also allow them to give him extra counters. Which can really change and push animar for the faster win.

Den Protector and Eternal Witness = allowing us to retrieve things that have been sent to the {B}'yard{B} that we don't want in there>

Phyrexian Metamorph and Spark Double= really the only one I need is phyrexian metamorph. Because I can pay 2 life to be able to get it out. But a little bit of redundancy I feel is nice. I can combo with other things and spark double is nice if I want to make a copy of animar and really get broken.

Temur Sabertooth and Kiri-Onna = restarting combos and initiating some powerful combos to go about winning the game.

Wandering Archaic lets maybe copy some spells?

Augur of Autumn and The Reality Chip = play off the top

Part 7: The Win

Ending the Game

Ancestral Statue = Notorious with Animar, and here it helps build his counters infinitely. Why would we need infinite counters on Animar?

Walking Ballista = With a ton of counters on Animar, we can beef up Ballista and just ping our opponents to death.

Game Over.

Extra: The perfect hand

Imperial Recruiter, Bond Beetle, Birds of Paradise, Mox Amber, 3 lands, each producing at least a green, blue, and red.

Turn 1 forest into birds of paradise.

Turn 2 island into Animar, Mox amber into bond beetle. Gaining Animar 2 counters.

Turn 3  mountain imperial recruiter into the neoform line.

C-c-c-c-c-c-combo!!!

Harvest line

Requirements

2 counters on Animar, {R}{U}{U}{G} and {UP}.

Imperial Recruiter> Phyrexian Metamorph> Spellseeker> Weird Harvest> Ancestral Statue + Walking Ballista.

Depending on your Mana situation, this may be the proper line for you

Neoform line

Requirements

2 counters on Animar, {R}{U}{U}{G}, and {UP}{UP}{UP}{UP}

Imperial Recruiter> Phyrexian Metamorph> Spellseeker> Neoform> Ancestral Statue> Walking Ballista.

Neoforming spellseeker into statue giving us a ton of counters on Animar, finally bouncing metamorph to fetch ballista winning the game.

Transit Line

Requirements

2 counters on Animar, {R}{U}

Play Imperial Recruiter for one {R} to find Phyrexian Metamorph. Metamorph plays for free to copy Recruiter, and search for Transit Mage. Play Transit Mage for one {U} to find Ancestral Statue and play it for free for infinite counters on Animar. Bounce Metamorph back to hand with the last bounce from Ancestral Statue, to replay Metamorph as a copy of imperial recruiter and Tutor for walking ballista to have it enter for free with infinite counters and ping the table.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 months
Exclude colors	WB
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 1 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.24
Tokens	Ape 3/3 G, Bird 2/2 U, Elemental 4/4 UR, Manifest 2/2 C, Spirit 1/1 C, Storm Counter, Treasure