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Animar EDH: Take Two 100 cards, 1 sideboard 1 {Evolving Wilds} 1 {Terramorphic Expanse} 1 {Vivid Crag} 1 {Kazandu Refuge} 7 {Forest} 1 {Rootbound Crag} 1 {Izzet Boilerworks} 1 {Kessig Wolf Run} 1 {Command Tower} 1 {Sulfur Falls} 1 {Ancient Ziggurat} 1 {Vivid Creek} 1 {Gruul Turf} 1 {Fungal Reaches} 1 {Volcanic Island} 8 {Island} 1 {Vivid Grove} 3 {Mountain} 1 {Skarrg, the Rage Pits} 1 {Tropical Island} 1 {Simic Growth Chamber} 36 lands 1 {Garruk's Horde} 1 {Mulldrifter} 1 {Blightsteel Colossus} 1 {Scion of the Wild} 1 {Silver Myr} 1 {Perilous Myr} 1 {Solemn Simulacrum} 1 {Sundering Titan} 1 {Brutalizer Exarch} 1 {Forgotten Ancient} 1 {Ornithopter} 1 {Artisan of Kozilek} 1 {Brawn} 1 {Iron Myr} 1 {Primordial Hydra} 1 {Kozilek, Butcher of Truth} 1 {Palinchron} 1 {Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir} 1 {Furnace Scamp} 1 {Tidespout Tyrant} 1 {Alchemist's Apprentice} 1 {Wurmcoil Engine} 1 {Nucklavee} 1 {Cytospawn Shambler} 1 {Llanowar Elves} 1 {Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre} 1 {Memnite} 1 {Apocalypse Hydra} 1 {Momir Vig, Simic Visionary} 1 {Pathrazer of Ulamog} 1 {Acidic Slime} 1 {Copper Myr} 1 {Primordial Sage} 1 {Platinum Emperion} 1 {Viridian Emissary} 35 creatures 1 {Browbeat} 1 {Gruul Signet} 1 {Soul's Majesty} 1 {Primal Cocoon} 1 {Lead the Stampede} 1 {Whispersilk Cloak} 1 {Equilibrium} 1 {Counterspell} 1 {Izzet Signet} 1 {Simic Signet} 1 {Sol Ring} 1 {Vengeful Rebirth} 1 {Inexorable Tide} 1 {Shattering Spree} 1 {Robe of Mirrors} 1 {Ponder} 1 {All Suns' Dawn} 1 {Unsummon} 1 {Cancel} 1 {Silent Departure} 1 {Recollect} 1 {Overrun} 1 {Gruul War Plow} 1 {Rampant Growth} 1 {Relearn} 1 {Second Guess} 1 {Druids' Repository} 1 {Horizon Spellbomb} 1 {Index} 29 other spells Sideboard 1 {Animar, Soul of Elements} 1 sideboard cards

Any comments/ critiques?

{Equilibrium} is brilliant.

Looks like a fun deck! Would to play against it and see it in action, I bet you will get some very large Animar action

Quote from: Gorzo on June 04, 2012, 04:29:00 AM
{Equilibrium} is brilliant.

Looks like a fun deck! Would to play against it and see it in action, I bet you will get some very large Animar action

Thanks! I'm surprised it's not a more well-known thing.

I hope so! im proxying up the cards I don't have as we speak.

I see you've added eldrazi titans in case of boardwipes good move :)

Quote from: Greg54js on June 04, 2012, 12:47:37 PM
I see you've added eldrazi titans in case of boardwipes good move :)

Thanks! I figured, why not? Even if I don't "need" them, I can still potentially play an Eldrazi for free. :)

Can anyone shed some light on what I'm going to be running into that could stall me out? I feel like this deck may be a bit straightforward(?) I guess. I'm worried I'll run into something pretty common that will tell my deck to GTFO.

^^ your basically talking about every possible board wipe in the game of magic. A few effects to include (some of which you already have with eldrazi) are shuffle your graveyard into your library. Stuff like {Elixir of immortality},the eldrazi titans, etc.

Okay, so I was right to put those in on my first draft. Thanks!

Quote from: Desolatus on June 04, 2012, 01:49:11 PM
Okay, so I was right to put those in on my first draft. Thanks!

No problem :) Its good to see people getting involved in commander

I'm considering adding {Evolution Vat} for shiggles. Would it be good enough to warrant a spot in my deck?

Quote from: Desolatus on June 05, 2012, 02:03:18 AM
I'm considering adding {Evolution Vat} for shiggles. Would it be good enough to warrant a spot in my deck?

Personally, I say yes. I love that idea. It gives you a perfect something to do with any excess mana you may have lying around.

Another thing you might want to add are a few big "draw" spells. Once Animar gets big, your hand is going to run out fast with all the cheap creature casting. {Blue Sun's Zenith}, {Mind Spring}, {Minds Aglow}, and {Trade Secrets} will each refuel you hand quickly with more goodies to drop!

Quote from: Gorzo on June 05, 2012, 03:08:16 AM

Quote from: Desolatus on June 05, 2012, 02:03:18 AM
I'm considering adding {Evolution Vat} for shiggles. Would it be good enough to warrant a spot in my deck?

Personally, I say yes. I love that idea. It gives you a perfect something to do with any excess mana you may have lying around.

Another thing you might want to add are a few big "draw" spells. Once Animar gets big, your hand is going to run out fast with all the cheap creature casting. {Blue Sun's Zenith}, {Mind Spring}, {Minds Aglow}, and {Trade Secrets} will each refuel you hand quickly with more goodies to drop!

Yeah I noticed my hand runs out with Animar and especially with Garruk's horde out. I'm putting evolution vat in, and I think the card-drawers as well any idea on what to take out?

I'm having a ton of trouble getting Animar to stick on the battlefield once she's cast. She comes out as a 1/1, so I'm not sure how I could keep her from dying turn three. Help please?

What is it that takes her out? If its targeted destruction, shroud or hexproof are your answer. {Lightning Greaves}, {Swiftfoot Boots}, {Mask of Avacyn}, {Asceticism}, and the like will keep you protected. if a certain color is bothering you more than others, one of the miroddin swords or something else that protects you from that color will help ({sword of war and peace} if white and red and exiling or burning Animar for example)

If board wipes are your problem, the only thing you can really do is add more {cancel} type spells and hold onto as much blue mana as you can to stop them.