If I'm not mistaken, Palinchron infinitely combos with both animar and riku. Making him almost a staple in the Mirror Mastery commander deck. Once animar has enough counters you can cast and bounce plainchron back forth as many times as you want. And when you play one with riku, I think you can play it copy it then bounce it before the next comes in and then play him again. So it depends whether you want infinite 4/5 flyers or infinite 4/5 flyers with a infinitely big animar staring them down too. Right now I'm trying to build a deck that can utilize both riku and animar as a commander so when I whip out animar and people start cringing and glaring at me I will whip out riku. (which may still cause some ager as well.)
Posted By:
Leonidus78
(6/29/2011 4:43:42 PM)
What a ridiculous EDH commander.
Posted By:
KokoshoForPresident
(3/30/2012 2:26:47 PM)
several EDH decks I've seen with this guy can win as early as turn 2. With turn 4 being the norm.
This could've been slightly balanced if it didn't have the random protection abilities.
Posted By:
mdakw576
(6/14/2012 4:11:30 PM)
My Riku deck was never a Riku deck.
Posted By:
JenBroness
(7/16/2012 10:06:13 PM)
Amusingly, Animar is the best morph commander around. They become free after three casts, and Animar's colours support morph very well. Also, you get to call the deck "Animorphs".
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(4/28/2013 4:13:40 PM)
This commander is absolute BS, it already has an OP ability, then they add protection from the 2 best removal colors???
I refuse to play edh against this thing.
Posted By:
busdude
(12/14/2011 3:43:03 PM)
All of you saying he combos with Riku are wrong. Animar checks if you've casted a creature. Casting a spell that puts a token copy of a creature you casted does not result in putting two +1/+1 counters on Animar.
You'll have an easier time upping the counters on Animar with sorceries, creatures, and artifacts that proliferate.
Posted By:
Kragash
(7/5/2012 6:29:52 AM)
So, what's the score on fastest Emrakul with this one?
Posted By:
Drecon84
(8/9/2013 1:16:14 PM)
Aluren says hello make me a combo!
Posted By:
bfellow
(6/17/2011 6:43:58 AM)
Insane. In addition to being a potentially very large creature (that swings for general damage) himself yet costs only 3, he actually has protection. None of the other generals can defend themselves that well. That isn't even getting into the comboness: think morph, people. Think artifact creatures. Hell, think Edgewalker and a bunch of clerics. You will never pay for your creatures again, and I can see this guy becoming a feared combo general for that reason. Plus he himself becomes infinitely large pretty easily.
Still won't see play outside of EDH, though. Haha.
Posted By:
ClockworkSwordfish
(6/17/2011 8:53:55 AM)