CommanderTestLabor DE
Price
€98.24of €100.00
Overall win rate
19%50 wins in 257 scored games
Games
270 (13)played in 27 tournaments, 13 not scored (time limit)
Rank
43in the rankings up to €100 · Elo 1446 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 34 lands, 12 of them basic
Game Changer
0of at most 3 allowed
Combos
2complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

At most €100 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (43)

Instants (6)

Sorceries (6)

Artifacts (5)

Enchantments (5)

Lands (34)

Animar, Soul of Elements
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (2)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Hullbreaker Horror + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite storm count
    5 versions, each with one of: Animar, Soul of Elements · Sol Ring · Ancestral Statue · Peregrine Drake · Cloud of Faeries
  • Brine Elemental + Vesuvan Shapeshifter → Opponents skip their untap steps, Lock

Commander Spellbook lists 6 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

Show all 6 entries
  • Hullbreaker Horror + Sol Ring → Infinite colorless mana, Infinite storm count
  • Ancestral Statue + Animar, Soul of Elements → Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Animar, Soul of Elements + Hullbreaker Horror → Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Hullbreaker Horror + Peregrine Drake + Cloud of Faeries → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite mana lands you control can produce
  • Brine Elemental + Vesuvan Shapeshifter → Opponents skip their untap steps, Lock
  • Hullbreaker Horror → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count

Adjusted for the Forge AI

The list above is the best tested version, the way you would play it in real games. The Forge AI can't play a few cards – they were replaced in the tournament (the deck builder also rearranges other slots within the budget). The win rate comes from games with these replacements; the original cards themselves were not tested by the AI.

In the list (original cards)
  • Beast Within: AI can't play it
  • Flooded Grove: AI can't play it
  • Iron Myr: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Simic Ascendancy: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Tinder Wall: AI can't play it
Played instead in the tournament
  • An Offer You Can't Refuse: replacement
  • Invigorating Surge: replacement
  • Meteor Golem: replacement
  • Snakeskin Veil: replacement
  • Swiftwater Cliffs: replacement

What the games show

From 257 analysed games in 27 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: wins through combat – 100% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

  • Often wins by combo: in 38 of 50 wins all pieces of a combo were in play indication

Weaknesses

  • Depends on its commander: only 0% wins without it, 21% with it indication (19 games without, 238 with commander)
  • Often eliminated first: in 33% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (86 of 257 games)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 257 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Animar, Soul of Elements avg 13.9hit in 186 of 257 games
  2. Stonecoil Serpent avg 2.0hit in 43 of 257 games
  3. Forgotten Ancient avg 1.6hit in 24 of 257 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Animar, Soul of Elements avg 19.2hit in 186 of 257 games
  2. Forgotten Ancient avg 17.2hit in 24 of 257 games
  3. Artisan of Kozilek avg 12.8hit in 27 of 257 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Animar, Soul of Elements 79×257 games in deck
  2. Artisan of Kozilek 11×257 games in deck
  3. Forgotten Ancient 11×257 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Artisan of Kozilek 141×avg 0.5 per game · 257 games in deck
  2. An Offer You Can't Refuse 47×avg 0.2 per game · 257 games in deck
  3. Pongify 43×avg 0.2 per game · 213 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 17% of 2521 attackers blocked in total, 12% of those by flyers or reach

  1. Insect Token 11×blocked in 4 games
  2. Soldier Token 9×blocked in 5 games
  3. Vampire Token 8×blocked in 3 games

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Cloud of Faeries 0%cast in 0 of 257 games
  2. Peregrine Drake 0%cast in 0 of 257 games
  3. Rattleclaw Mystic 5%cast in 13 of 257 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 50 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–912%
  • turns 10–1136%
  • turns 12–1326%
  • turn 14+26%

Combos in play logged Hullbreaker Horror + Sol Ring: all pieces cast in 16 games, 6 won · Ancestral Statue + Animar, Soul of Elements: all pieces cast in 89 games, 29 won · Animar, Soul of Elements + Hullbreaker Horror: all pieces cast in 53 games, 25 won · Hullbreaker Horror + Peregrine Drake + Cloud of Faeries: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.98

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7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
21 / 16
Card draw
11 / 11
Removal
10 / 8
Board wipe
1 / 2
Protection
3 / 3
Strategy
19 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 65 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
43
Instants
6
Sorceries
6
Artifacts
5
Enchantments
5
Lands
34

Most expensive cards

Pollywog Prodigy
€7.37
Beast Whisperer
€5.90
Hullbreaker Horror
€5.14
Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
€4.21
Rhythm of the Wild
€3.27
Lightning Greaves
€3.08
Birds of Paradise
€3.00
Veil of Summer
€3.00

What the program has learned

Each tournament the deck tests one card. A verdict needs at least 40 games with and without the card. Since the deck is rebuilt every tournament with current prices and data, tested cards can drop out again later.

  • no clear difference Genesis Hydra instead of Snakeskin Veil · win rate 13% with, 22% without (67 / 190 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now
  • no clear difference Kodama's Reach instead of Sowing Mycospawn · win rate 20% with, 17% without (192 / 65 games)
  • no clear difference Snakeskin Veil instead of Myr Scrapling · win rate 19% with, 20% without (81 / 176 games)
  • no clear difference Invigorating Surge instead of Genesis Hydra · win rate 19% with, 20% without (161 / 96 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now

4 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

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Total €98.24 Cardmarket average as of Oct 27, 2026

Open Cardmarket Wants

Prices without shipping. Individual cards may have become cheaper or more expensive on Cardmarket.

Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 7 · average place 39.5 · 0× top 3 · 1× top 10 out of 27 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?