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Animar, Soul of Elements

Animar, Soul of Elements

Legendary Creature — Elemental · {G}{U}{R} · Green/Red/Blue commander

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.
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What Animar, Soul of Elements actually does

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What an Animar, Soul of Elements deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Animar, Soul of Elements

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

  1. Mosswort Bridge0 mana
  2. Mox Diamond0 mana
  3. Chromatic Lantern3 mana
  4. Arcane Lighthouse0 mana
  5. Castle Embereth0 mana
  6. Eye of Ugin0 mana
  7. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  8. Cryptolith Rite2 mana

A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count

  1. Dryad Arbor0 mana
  2. Ornithopter0 mana
  3. Walking Ballista0 mana
  4. Birds of Paradise1 mana
  5. Delighted Halfling1 mana
  6. Elvish Mystic1 mana
  7. Fyndhorn Elves1 mana
  8. Llanowar Elves1 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Bristly Bill, Spine Sower2 mana
  3. Cankerbloom2 mana
  4. Ripples of Potential2 mana
  5. Thrummingbird2 mana
  6. Thirsting Roots1 mana
  7. Evolution Sage3 mana
  8. Mossborn Hydra3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Suspend1 mana
  7. Snap2 mana
  8. Into the Flood Maw1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Displacement Wave2 mana
  3. Breaking Point3 mana
  4. Crack the Earth1 mana
  5. Simplify1 mana
  6. Filter Out3 mana
  7. Kozilek's Return3 mana
  8. Akki Blizzard-Herder2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Neoform2 mana
  4. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  5. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  6. Reshape2 mana
  7. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  8. Mask of the Mimic1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Rhystic Study3 mana
  7. Faerie Mastermind2 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  3. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  4. Cryptothrall4 mana
  5. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  6. Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
  7. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

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