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Price
€298.33of €300.00
Overall win rate
19%13 wins in 68 scored games
Games
70 (2)played in 7 tournaments, 2 not scored (time limit)
Rank
38in the rankings up to €300 · Elo 1467 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 34 lands, 12 of them basic
Game Changer
1of at most 3 allowed
Combos
1complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

At most €300 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 (7)

Sorceries (3)

Artifacts (6)

Enchantments (6)

Lands (34)

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

Combos in the deck (1)

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
    Example – 13 versions with these cards: Hullbreaker Horror · Temur Sabertooth · Selvala, Heart of the Wilds · Animar, Soul of Elements · Maelstrom Wanderer · Temur Ascendancy · Fanatic of Rhonas · Sol Ring and 5 more

Commander Spellbook lists 13 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

Show all 13 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
  • Temur Sabertooth + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Lightning Greaves → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite colored mana
  • Animar, Soul of Elements + Cloudstone Curio → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite storm count
  • Hullbreaker Horror + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Maelstrom Wanderer → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite colored mana
  • Temur Sabertooth + Maelstrom Wanderer + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds → Cast a subset of spells in your library, Infinite colored mana, Infinite creature ETB
  • Hullbreaker Horror + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Temur Ascendancy → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite colored mana
  • Temur Sabertooth + Fanatic of Rhonas + Maelstrom Wanderer → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite storm count
  • Temur Sabertooth + Selvala, Heart of the Wilds + Temur Ascendancy → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite blinking
  • Temur Sabertooth + Fanatic of Rhonas + Temur Ascendancy → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite storm count
  • 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
  • Branching Evolution: swapped for a test
  • Mystic Remora: AI plays it poorly
  • Swan Song: AI can't play it
  • Tinder Wall: AI can't play it
Played instead in the tournament
  • Benevolent Hydra: replacement
  • Consecrated Sphinx: replacement
  • Negate: replacement
  • Neoform: replacement
  • Pongify: replacement

What the games show

From 68 analysed games in 7 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 – 99% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

  • Often wins by combo: in 11 of 13 wins all pieces of a combo were in play indication

Weaknesses

  • Often eliminated first: in 43% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (29 of 68 games)
  • Slow to win: wins on average only on its 13th own turn (all-deck avg: 12th) logged (13 wins)
  • Frequent mulligans: kept fewer than 7 cards in 12% of games (all-deck avg: 5%) logged (68 games)
  • Vulnerable to artifact/enchantment removal: 0% wins when opponents cast 2+ artifact or enchantment removal spells, 25% without them (all-deck avg: 23% vs 27%) indication (15 / 28 games)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 68 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Animar, Soul of Elements avg 12.8hit in 52 of 68 games
  2. Goldvein Hydra avg 2.9hit in 11 of 68 games
  3. Hydroid Krasis avg 1.6hit in 6 of 68 games

Damage when used when it hits

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

  1. Goldvein Hydra avg 18.2hit in 11 of 68 games
  2. Hydroid Krasis avg 17.8hit in 6 of 68 games
  3. Animar, Soul of Elements avg 16.8hit in 52 of 68 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

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

  1. Animar, Soul of Elements 16×68 games in deck
  2. Goldvein Hydra 6×68 games in deck
  3. Hydroid Krasis 2×68 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

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

  1. Artisan of Kozilek 23×avg 0.3 per game · 68 games in deck
  2. Mystic Remora 11×avg 0.2 per game · 58 games in deck
  3. An Offer You Can't Refuse 11×avg 0.2 per game · 68 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 17% of 629 attackers blocked in total, 11% of those by flyers or reach

  1. Ape Token 3×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 68 games
  2. Peregrine Drake 0%cast in 0 of 68 games
  3. Heroic Intervention 7%cast in 5 of 68 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 13 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–915%
  • turns 10–1131%
  • turns 12–1315%
  • turn 14+38%

Combos in play logged Hullbreaker Horror + Sol Ring: all pieces cast in 2 games, 2 won · Ancestral Statue + Animar, Soul of Elements: all pieces cast in 15 games, 5 won · Animar, Soul of Elements + Hullbreaker Horror: all pieces cast in 16 games, 10 won · Hullbreaker Horror + Peregrine Drake + Cloud of Faeries: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 3.06

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0
14
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16
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16
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7
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6
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7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
20 / 16
Card draw
11 / 11
Removal
9 / 8
Board wipe
1 / 2
Protection
3 / 3
Strategy
21 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
7
Sorceries
3
Artifacts
6
Enchantments
6
Lands
34

Most expensive cards

Delighted Halfling
€20.71
Worldly Tutor
€18.20
Wooded Foothills
€16.74
Fanatic of Rhonas
€14.92
Bloom Tender
€13.11
Swan Song
€10.68
Heroic Intervention
€10.37
Steam Vents
€9.90

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 swap has enough games for a verdict yet.

7 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

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Total €298.33 Cardmarket average as of Oct 27, 2026

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Placement in every tournament

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

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Best place 10 · average place 38.7 · 0× top 3 · 1× top 10 out of 7 tournaments

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