Intro: I have to give a huge shout out to gelf's Animar Primer for providing the shell of this deck. A lot of the cards are from his suggestions. I think that I’ve tweaked it enough for my meta (and personal preference) to make it my own, but it’s basically a copy of his deck with some changes. Mainly, I took the focus off of Phychosis Crawler and then took out the Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts combo.
The deck plays pretty straight forward; Turn 1&2 is just land drops and if I'm lucky i'll drop a Sylvan Library, Worldly Tutor, Skullclamp or Ring of Kalonia. Turn 3 sees Animar and then it's drop mobs on the cheap for the rest of the game. My favorite thing this deck does is bounce. I love the versatility of being able to bounce my stuff OR theirs
Feel free to comment if you’d like; I take criticism and suggestions fairly well lol
Additional Morph creatures I'm thinking about trying to find a place for: Coral Trickster - For U, this gets around stubborn chumpblockers when I don't have a way to give Animar trample Echo Tracer - Another 2U bounce effect Nantuko Vigilante - Naturalize on a stick Riptide Survivor - Was thinking about replacing Sea Gate Oracle but I don't like the fact that you have to discard first... Root Elemental - I really like this card but it's really to clunky to consider Shaleskin Plower - Maze of Ith is very common in my meta and sometimes 5 mana isn't to expensive to blow one up Unblinking Bleb - Really only good if I decide to go super morph heavy Voidmage Apprentice - Counterspell on a stick but 4 mana seems a little high Woodcloaker - GG, Animar gets trample; could be great mid-late game.
I have an Animar deck that I love, but I think the big problem with it is I NEED lots of draw in order to keep the momentum going. Play creatures, drawn more, keep playing until I can swing massively. Primordial Sage and Soul of the Harvest are your allstars, which you already have, but I few that I've included in my deck to help it along are:
I know they seem underwhelming, but for me they are usually a 1 drop which nets me a card and a counter on Animar. I also like to use plenty of clone creatures which allow me to either have yet another Soul of the Harvest on the board, kill pesky commanders, or duplicate other utility creatures I have:
Bounce creatures are always good. I see you already have Man-o'-War and Shrieking Drake. I also have Dream Stalker in my deck. You might want to run it over Aether Adept. Yeah, you can only bounce your creatures, but the double blue is a lot less forgiving with Animar, and I find that most of the time I'm wanting to bounce my own creatures anyway, so I can replay them for their enter the battlefield effects and another counter on Animar.
Thanks for the replies, I'll do my best to address them real quick while on my break at work...
@Trabant777: I'm just going to quote gelf here,
Consecrated Sphinx - As with Future Sight, this is a great card advantage engine and also gets bonus points because it's a creature, but I don't include it because once the deck gets going your opponents may not get another draw step. It doesn't facilitate the combo at all and as such loses it's place in my version of the deck.
I may look to add it in later, but so far I've not found that I need it.
@Andrewgeddon:
but I few that I've included in my deck to help it along are:
Wall of Blossoms
Elvish Visionary
Wall of Blossoms seems like it could be ok. I like that it replaces itself in your hand for free while adding a counter to Animar but for the most part it's going to be worthless once you case it. This deck it at no shortage of chump blockers and I'm normally going to want to bounce something with a better ETB effect than drawing one card. I might consider putting it in eventually in place of Glimpse of Nature.
I also like to use plenty of clone creatures which allow me to either have yet another Soul of the Harvest on the board, kill pesky commanders, or duplicate other utility creatures
I don't think that the deck needs more clones; at this point Phyrexian Metamorph and Duplicant have filled that job well enough.
I also have Dream Stalker in my deck. You might want to run it over Aether Adept. Yeah, you can only bounce your creatures, but the double blue is a lot less forgiving with Animar, and I find that most of the time I'm wanting to bounce my own creatures anyway, so I can replay them for their enter the battlefield effects and another counter on Animar.
So far, I've not had any issue with the double blue in the adept's casting cost and the option it gives to boomerang one of their creatures if I need to is well worth the extra cost imo.
Brutalizer Exarch is Worldly Tutor on a stick, plus can tuck away those pesky enchantments / artifacts in a pinch.
The only reason that I don't run the brutalizer over the actual tutor is that turn 1-2, its nice to grab that Shrieking Drake or Alloy Myr for early pump or mana fixing. I think that the versatility of the exarch is awesome, but early game it's just a dead card
The deck plays pretty straight forward; Turn 1&2 is just land drops and if I'm lucky i'll drop a Sylvan Library, Worldly Tutor, Skullclamp or Ring of Kalonia. Turn 3 sees Animar and then it's drop mobs on the cheap for the rest of the game. My favorite thing this deck does is bounce. I love the versatility of being able to bounce my stuff OR theirs
Feel free to comment if you’d like; I take criticism and suggestions fairly well lol
1 Animar, Soul of Elements
Creatures (46):
1 Acidic Slime
1 Aether Adept
1 Akroma, Angel of Fury
1 Alloy Myr
1 Artisan of Kozilek
1 Bloodbraid Elf
1 Chromeshell Crab
1 Deadwood Treefolk
1 Draining Whelk
1 Duplicant
1 Eternal Witness
1 Farhaven Elf
1 Fauna Shaman
1 Fierce Empath
1 Garruk’s Horde
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
1 Man-o’-War
1 Mindclaw Shaman
1 Mulldrifter
1 Oracle of Mul Daya
1 Palinchron
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Primordial Hydra
1 Primordial Sage
1 Rummaging Goblin
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Sea Gate Oracle
1 Shrieking Drake
1 Simic Sky Swallower
1 Slithermuse
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Soul of the Harvest
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Terastodon
1 Tidespout Tyrant
1 Ulvenwald Tracker
1 Urabrask the Hidden
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter
1 Voidmage Husher
1 Whirlpool Warrior
1 Willbender
1 Wood Elves
1 Woodfall Primus
1 Yavimaya Elder
1 Cloudstone Curio
1 Erratic Portal
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Ring of Kalonia
1 Skullclamp
Enchantments (4):
1 Equilibrium
1 Greater Good
1 Rites of Flourishing
1 Sylvan Library
Instants (2):
1 Snap
1 Worldly Tutor
Sorceries (4):
1 Fabricate
1 Glimpse of Nature
1 Time Spiral
1 Tooth and Nail
Land (37):
4 Island
3 Mountain
4 Forest
1 Ancient Ziggurat
1 Breeding Pool
1 Cascade Bluffs
1 Command Tower
1 Fire-Lit Thicket
1 Flooded Grove
1 Gruul Turf
1 Hinterland Harbor
1 Homeward Path
1 Izzet Boilerworks
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Maze of Ith
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mosswort Bridge
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Rootbound Crag
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Simic Growth Chamber
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Strip Mine
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Winding Canyons
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Yavimaya Hollow
1 Zoetic Cavern
Edits:
-Wild Pair
+Maelstrom Wanderer
-Maelstrom Wanderer
+Simic Sky Swallower
WUB Sharuum the Hegemon, the Destroyer of Darksteel
BGW Teneb, the Harvester, my Pimped Out Reanimator
GUB The Mimeoplasm Ooze-Mill
GWU Rafiq the Exalted
Free:
1 Akroma, Angel of Fury – 3x Counters on Animar (Morph)
1 Alloy Myr – 3x Counters on Animar
1 Artisan of Kozilek – 9x Counters on Animar
1 Chromeshell Crab – 3x Counters on Animar (Morph)
1 Duplicant – 6x Counters on Animar
1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth – 10x Counters on Animar
1 Phyrexian Metamorph – 3x Counters on Animar +2 Pain
1 Solemn Simulacrum – 4x Counters on Animar
1 Steel Hellkite – 6x Counters on Animar
1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter – 3x Counters on Animar (Morph)
1 Willbender – 3x Counters on Animar (Morph)
1 Zoetic Cavern – 3x Counters on Animar (Morph)
One:
1 Chromeshell Crab - U w/ 4x Counters on Animar
1 Deadwood Treefolk - G w/ 5x Counters on Animar
1 Farhaven Elf - G w/ 2x Counters on Animar
1 Fauna Shaman - G w/ 1x Counters on Animar
1 Fierce Empath - G w/ 2x Counters on Animar
1 Man-o’-War - U w/ 2x Counters on Animar
1 Mindclaw Shaman - R w/ 4x Counters on Animar
1 Mulldrifter - U w/ 4x Counters on Animar
1 Oracle of Mul Daya - G w/ 3x Counters on Animar
1 Phyrexian Metamorph - U w/ 3x Counters on Animar
1 Rummaging Goblin - R w/ 2x Counters on Animar
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder - G w/ 1x Counters on Animar
1 Sea Gate Oracle - U w/ 2x Counters on Animar
1 Shrieking Drake - U w/ 3x Counters on Animar
1 Ulvenwald Tracker - G w/ 3x Counters on Animar
1 Voidmage Husher - U w/ 3x Counters on Animar
1 Whirlpool Warrior - U w/ 2x Counters on Animar
1 Willbender - U w/ 1x Counters on Animar
1 Wood Elves - G w/ 2x Counters on Animar
Two:
1 Acidic Slime - GG w/ 3x Counters on Animar
1 Aether Adept - UU w/ 1x Counters on Animar
1 Bloodbraid Elf - RG w/ 2x Counters on Animar
1 Draining Whelk - UU w/ 4x Counters on Animar
1 Eternal Witness - GG w/ 1x Counters on Animar
1 Garruk’s Horde - GG w/ 5x Counters on Animar
1 Palinchron - UU w/ 5x Counters on Animar
1 Primordial Hydra - GG w/ Xx Counters on Animar
1 Primordial Sage - GG w/ 4x Counters on Animar
1 Slithermuse - UU w/ 2x Counters on Animar
1 Soul of the Harvest - GG w/ 4x Counters on Animar
1 Terastodon - GG w/ 6x Counters on Animar
1 Urabrask the Hidden - RR w/ 3x Counters on Animar
1 Venser, Shaper Savant - UU w/ 2x Counters on Animar
1 Vesuvan Shapeshifter - UU w/ 3x Counters on Animar
1 Yavimaya Elder - GG w/ 1x Counters on Animar
Three:
1 Akroma, Angel of Fury - RRR w/ 5x Counters on Animar
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker - RRR w/ 2x Counters on Animar
1 Maelstrom Wanderer - URG w/ 5x Counters on Animar
1 Tidespout Tyrant - UUU w/ 5x Counters on Animar
1 Woodfall Primus - GGG w/ 5x Counters on Animar
WUB Sharuum the Hegemon, the Destroyer of Darksteel
BGW Teneb, the Harvester, my Pimped Out Reanimator
GUB The Mimeoplasm Ooze-Mill
GWU Rafiq the Exalted
Coral Trickster - For U, this gets around stubborn chumpblockers when I don't have a way to give Animar trample
Echo Tracer - Another 2U bounce effect
Nantuko Vigilante - Naturalize on a stick
Riptide Survivor - Was thinking about replacing Sea Gate Oracle but I don't like the fact that you have to discard first...
Root Elemental - I really like this card but it's really to clunky to consider
Shaleskin Plower - Maze of Ith is very common in my meta and sometimes 5 mana isn't to expensive to blow one up
Unblinking Bleb - Really only good if I decide to go super morph heavy
Voidmage Apprentice - Counterspell on a stick but 4 mana seems a little high
Woodcloaker - GG, Animar gets trample; could be great mid-late game.
WUB Sharuum the Hegemon, the Destroyer of Darksteel
BGW Teneb, the Harvester, my Pimped Out Reanimator
GUB The Mimeoplasm Ooze-Mill
GWU Rafiq the Exalted
+Simic Sky Swallower love this guy
WUB Sharuum the Hegemon, the Destroyer of Darksteel
BGW Teneb, the Harvester, my Pimped Out Reanimator
GUB The Mimeoplasm Ooze-Mill
GWU Rafiq the Exalted
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Card looks good but I've not really needed the extra mana so far. I'll keep it in mind though if I find myself needing more rocks.
WUB Sharuum the Hegemon, the Destroyer of Darksteel
BGW Teneb, the Harvester, my Pimped Out Reanimator
GUB The Mimeoplasm Ooze-Mill
GWU Rafiq the Exalted
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Wall of Blossoms
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I know they seem underwhelming, but for me they are usually a 1 drop which nets me a card and a counter on Animar. I also like to use plenty of clone creatures which allow me to either have yet another Soul of the Harvest on the board, kill pesky commanders, or duplicate other utility creatures I have:
Clone
Phantasmal Image
Vesuvan Shapeshifter
Bounce creatures are always good. I see you already have Man-o'-War and Shrieking Drake. I also have Dream Stalker in my deck. You might want to run it over Aether Adept. Yeah, you can only bounce your creatures, but the double blue is a lot less forgiving with Animar, and I find that most of the time I'm wanting to bounce my own creatures anyway, so I can replay them for their enter the battlefield effects and another counter on Animar.
Brutalizer Exarch is Worldly Tutor on a stick, plus can tuck away those pesky enchantments / artifacts in a pinch.
@Trabant777: I'm just going to quote gelf here,
I may look to add it in later, but so far I've not found that I need it.
@Andrewgeddon:
Wall of Blossoms seems like it could be ok. I like that it replaces itself in your hand for free while adding a counter to Animar but for the most part it's going to be worthless once you case it. This deck it at no shortage of chump blockers and I'm normally going to want to bounce something with a better ETB effect than drawing one card. I might consider putting it in eventually in place of Glimpse of Nature.
I don't think that the deck needs more clones; at this point Phyrexian Metamorph and Duplicant have filled that job well enough.
So far, I've not had any issue with the double blue in the adept's casting cost and the option it gives to boomerang one of their creatures if I need to is well worth the extra cost imo.
The only reason that I don't run the brutalizer over the actual tutor is that turn 1-2, its nice to grab that Shrieking Drake or Alloy Myr for early pump or mana fixing. I think that the versatility of the exarch is awesome, but early game it's just a dead card
WUB Sharuum the Hegemon, the Destroyer of Darksteel
BGW Teneb, the Harvester, my Pimped Out Reanimator
GUB The Mimeoplasm Ooze-Mill
GWU Rafiq the Exalted