Animar X

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I started this deck with the idea of having as many X spell / MultiKicker creatures as I could, so they would "scale up" with Animar.
I just tried to make as many huge creatures as possible, and things that manipulate or use +1/+1 counters for Animar.
 
Mana Acceleration (5): General (1): Spells (7): Sideboard (Omitted/Cut card ideas):
1 Gyre Sage 1 Animar, Soul of Elements 1 Temur Ascendancy 1 Drumhunter
1 Regal Behemoth   1 Inexorable Tide 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
1 Unbound Flourishing Creatures (52): 1 Doubling Season 1 Ol' Buzzbark
1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger 1 Ancestral Statue 1 Hardened Scales 1 Hydradoodle
1 Zendikar Resurgent 1 Endless One 1 Primal Vigor 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  1 Hangarback Walker 1 Electropotence 1 Darksteel Colossus
Lands (35): 1 Meteor Golem 1 Warstorm Surge 1 Desolation Twin
1 Tropical Island 1 Sandstone Oracle   1 Savage Ventmaw
1 Volcanic Island 1 Soul of New Phyrexia   1 Zameck Guildmage
1 Taiga 1 Ugin's Conjurant   1 Novijen Sages
1 Breeding Pool 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger   1 Sage of Fables
1 Steam Vents 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre   1 Viral Drake
1 Stomping Ground 1 Walking Ballista   1 Karametra's Acolyte
1 Flooded Grove 1 Altered Ego   1 Elvish Aberration
1 Cascade Bluffs 1 Apocalypse Hydra   1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
1 Fire-Lit Thicket 1 Fathom Mage   1 Conduit of Ruin
1 Command Tower 1 Gilder Bairn   1 Mana Reflection
1 Frontier Bivouac 1 Hydroid Krasis   1 Primeval Protector
1 Gaea's Cradle 1 Nimbus Swimmer   1 Cytospawn Shambler
1 Karn's Bastion 1 Prime Speaker Zegana   1 Sun Quan, Lord of Wu
1 Kessig Wolf Run 1 Savageborn Hydra   1 Archetype of Imagination
1 Llanowar Reborn 1 Vorel of the Hull Clade   1 Evolution Vat
1 Miren, the Moaning Well 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide   1 Worldspine Wurm
1 Mosswort Bridge 1 Sakashima the Impostor   1 Ion Storm
1 Novijen, Heart of Progress 1 Spark Double   1 Death's Presence
1 Opal Palace 1 Crowned Ceratok   1 Sporeback Troll
1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood 1 Feral Hydra   1 Solidarity of Heroes
1 Path of Ancestry 1 Forgotten Ancient   1 Give // Take
1 Reflecting Pool 1 Fungal Behemoth   1 Archetype of Endurance
1 Spinerock Knoll 1 Garruk's Packleader   1 Sapphire Drake
3 Island 1 Genesis Hydra   1 Ring of Evos Isle
4 Forest 1 Hooded Hydra   1 Sylvan Primordial
3 Mountain 1 Hungering Hydra   1 Mage Slayer
1 Mana Crypt 1 Ivy Elemental   1 Mark of Sakiko
1 Sol Ring 1 Kalonian Hydra   1 Grove of the Burnwillows
  1 Krakilin   1 Myojin of Seeing Winds
  1 Lifeblood Hydra   1 Ordeal of Thassa
  1 Mistcutter Hydra   1 Ordeal of Purphoros
  1 Paleoloth   1 Bow of Nylea
  1 Pathbreaker Ibex   1 Colossus of Akros
  1 Primordial Hydra   1 Ordeal of Nylea
  1 Primordial Sage   1 Maelstrom Wanderer
  1 Protean Hydra   1 Etherium-Horn Sorcerer
  1 Renegade Krasis   1 Plaxcaster Frogling
  1 Sakiko, Mother of Summer   1 Gruul Ragebeast
  1 Soul of the Harvest   1 Darksteel Plate
  1 Spearbreaker Behemoth   1 Diluvian Primordial
  1 Vastwood Hydra   1 Molten Primordial
  1 Verdant Sun's Avatar   1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  1 Verdeloth the Ancient   1 Soul's Might
  1 Voracious Hydra   1 Shield of Kaldra
  1 Balduvian Hydra   1 Soul's Majesty
  1 Hamletback Goliath   1 Hunter's Insight
  1 Rock Hydra   1 Momentous Fall
  1 Stalking Vengeance   1 Greater Good